Broadcom Chief Executive Hock Tan isn’t someone who finds blowing money appetizing. But that $40,000 dinner seems to have gone down well. That was the reported cost for Tan to sit at the table of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a dinner at last month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco. It is a … Read more
As Broadcom Inc. and VMware Inc. get closer to their new merger deadline of Nov. 26, some investors are nervous that the deal will not get done, with a $1.5 billion termination fee hanging over the chip maker. China is reportedly the cause for the current hold-up for the deal, which was supposed to close … Read more
Shares in Broadcom and VMware were rising despite an apparent delay to the closing of their merger agreement, which was set to complete on Monday. China could be a problem—but investors don’t seem too worried. Source link
Shares of technology companies fell after one major deal was jeopardized by U.S.-China tensions, stoking concerns that the tech trade war will hurt the industry. Shares of VMWare plunged after The Financial Times reported Broadcom’s roughly $61 billion deal to buy the maker of virtualization software was held up by Beijing authorities, largely in response … Read more