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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
There is a certain industrial calm that makes the present moment seem almost surreal when you stand close to a fuel terminal on the outskirts of any major port city, such as Rotterdam, Houston, or Jebel Ali. Tankers coming and going. Humming pipelines. The control rooms’ lights are on. For…
You can sense the weight of graduation on any large university campus: the pictures, the rented gowns, the parents raising their phones, and the unique sense of accomplishment that comes from completing something that cost more than a car and required four years of your life. It still appears to…
The unsolicited bid targets a profitable enterprise software business with strong cash flows and a valuation that has attracted sustained private equity interest Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) has received a preliminary all-cash takeover proposal from Francisco Partners and Vista Equity Partners, two of the world’s largest technology-focused private equity…