The Wrath of Khan: Technology, M&A and the Federal Trade Commission
Did Lina Khan, former firebrand chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), lose Silicon Valley for the Democrats in the last US presidential election? Did her hard-line approach so offend an industry accustomed to light touch regulation that it turned away from its traditional Democratic leanings and into the waiting arms of Donald Trump? The […]
Elon Musk Buys Twitter from Himself to Save It
On March 28, 2025, Elon Musk announced that his artificial intelligence venture, xAI, had acquired his social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), in an all-stock deal. The transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, factoring in $12 billion of X’s debt. It’s a move that ties Musk’s AI aspirations to X’s […]
Oracle, Cerner, and The Quest For Healthcare Data
Shantanu Mukherjee and Amruth Rao[1] On 7th June 2021, Oracle announced that it had completed the acquisition of Cerner in a USD 28.3 billion, all-cash deal. Oracle, the world’s second-largest software company by revenue, is best known for its database software products and cloud services. Cerner, the second-largest healthcare IT company in the U.S. […]
