Monday, 17 January 2022 9:57 pmWell, it looks like Ian "Kingy" King is first out of the traps to highlight something little old Betaville has been ruminating on with an old City contact over a few glasses down the pub this evening.
Wednesday, 22 February 2017 6:51 pmBloomberg also joined in by raking over the collapsed transaction in its "Deal of the Weak" podcast - https://assets.bwbx.io/av/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/vrYUVnX10ZNI/v2.mp3. This was a rather amusing affair as the reporters involved reacted with incredulity that a story of such magnitude could be broken on a blog, in this case FT Alphaville. It was almost as if the Bloomberg hacks were trying to claim FT Alphaville hadn't broken the story because there was no "attribution" to "people familiar with the matter".
Friday, 17 February 2017 1:15 pmTake a bow Bryce Elder, stock market reporter over at the Financial Times. The intrepid hack has just landed the M&A scoop of the year, decade or, perhaps, century with his tale this morning about Kraft Heinz's £100 billion plus takeover approach for Unilever. If you follow M&A, I'm sure you have seen the statements.