acquisitions

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The company has been a laggard for much of the past decade due to poorly timed acquisitions that saddled it with debt.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Mergers and acquisitions have also removed some profitable companies from the public small-cap market.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Boston Scientific would also take market share, partly through acquisitions.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Executives at JPMorgan have been suggesting an openness to big acquisitions in recent months, always with plenty of caveats that the firm is focused elsewhere and might not do anything.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Neal moved to Ascend Communications, which built little boxes to terminate Internet signals and was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999 for $24 billion, one of the largest acquisitions in history.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel