MC 2: MC2 Post 1888 Dollar Stores Agree to $8.5 Billion Merger After Icahn Push

Monday, July 28, 2014

MC2 Post 1888 Dollar Stores Agree to $8.5 Billion Merger After Icahn Push

So What's the Big Deal? You Ask ???

LOTS.

From: http://www.businessweek.com

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-07-28/dollar-tree-agrees-to-buy-family-dollar-for-74-dot-50-a-share

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/lmoazoj

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Carl Icahn’s Family Dollar Alchemy Creates $174 Million Profit

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For activist investors: One dollar store plus another dollar store

equals millions.

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Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/07/28/carl-icahns-family-dollar-alchemy-creates-174-million-profit/

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ZILLOW BUYS TRULIA FOR $3.5 BILLION

Both stocks up more than 90% this year.

Real estate listings site Zillow has agreed to purchase Trulia for $3.5 billion in stock, the companies announced in a joint statement.

It's a 25% premium to Trulia's Friday close.

Each Trulia shareholder will get .444 Class-A Zillow shares.

Zillow shares are halted. Trulia is up 16%.

Bloomberg had reported Thursday that Zillow was seeking $2 billion.

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-halted-2014-7

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/kfphskd

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The Mergers and Acquisitions Game is still Working

Apple Buys Booklamp and Swell

Swell for Podcasting

Booklamp to compete with Amazon

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Your Smartphone will replace Room Keys at

Hilton hotels by end of 2016

Within a couple years, most people will never need to visit the front desk at a Hilton hotel ever again. The company plans to let customers use their smartphones to unlock room doors at most Hilton-owned hotels by the end of 2016. That's over 4,100 properties in all, so it's not entirely surprising that the plan to make plastic key cards obsolete will take some time. But other improvements will arrive sooner, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Link: http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/28/5944499/smartphones-will-unlock-doors-at-hilton-hotels

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/mj3r3yv

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