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HCLTech wins $1.14bn deal with a European firm, its biggest since 2023
HCLTech has signed a 1.14 billion contract with a major European company, the Indian IT services group said Thursday, in what is its largest single deal since a 2.1 billion agreement with Verizon in August 2023. The client is described only as a Fortune Global 50 firm, and neither side has named it publicly. The [] This story continues at The Next Web
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The Motley Fool
· Jul 10, 2026
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Just Made a $10 Billion Move. Is the Stock a Buy?
Additional blockbuster drugs may be on the horizon.
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· Jul 2, 2026
Getty scraps its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after a UK regulator won’t budge
A 3.7bn plan to merge the world’s two biggest stock-photo libraries has collapsed. The reason is not America, where regulators waved it through. It is Britain, where a single condition proved a deal-breaker. Getty Images will terminate its merger with Shutterstock, the company said this week. Its board voted unanimously to walk away after the [] This story continues at The Next Web
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· Jun 25, 2026
Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Overseas: EU Likely to Give Go-Ahead, but Another Hurdle Looms in the U.K.
With Paramount’s 111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery likely to soon get the go-ahead from the European Union, the next question will be whether the U.K.’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will follow suit. The prospects are that the U.K. won’t block the deal, but may throw in an extra hurdle, according to []
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· Jun 28, 2026
Is the U.S. dollar debasement trade dead?
Is the U.S. dollar debasement trade dead?
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