A British company that sells beer drinkers kits to brew their own fresh beer at home could be about to change hands for more than £300 million.

Just when it had gone a tad quiet in the world of biotechnology dealmaking Oliver "an Englishman in New York" Barnes of the venerable Financial Times pops up with another corking scoop.

Fattal's £930 million takeover bid for FTSE 250-listed owner of Park Plaza hotels has hit a brick wall.

Matthieu Protard of French publication La Lettre has dug out another takeover scoop about a big French company.

Well the Netflix - Lionsgate takeover rumour put about by Semafor yesterday appears to have fizzled out as quickly as it started.

Netflix may pounce on US-listed film producer Lionsgate after missing out on Warner Brothers and Roku.

It turns out it was Fox Corporation, now run by Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan, that had been talking to US-listed streaming group Roku about a takeover deal.

Mike "Maverick" Ashley is on a bit of a tear.

Little old Betaville had heard rumours that there was another big US technology deal in the offing but it would appear arch rivals might have got to the bottom of the story.

Andrew Left's travails clearly hasn't scared off some of the stockmarket's biggest bears from having a go at north American companies.

A big move from big Mike "The Maverick" Ashley.

Another week, another portion of Chemring stock accumulated by the mysterious American private equity firm Albion River.

Talk about a quick flip!

GlaxoSmithKline has stuck a deal to buy US-listed biopharmaceutical Nuvalent for just over $10.6 billion.

Another round of attempted consolidation in the Italian banking industry has kicked off this morning.