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PepsiCo, Peltz call truce after two years of locking horns

PepsiCo's snacks unit has performed better than the company's historic beverages business. Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz ended his push to break up PepsiCo

M&A deals worth $3.5 trn made in 2014 globally

With some 40,298 transactions, it was the best year in deals since 2007

In biggest PE deal of 2014, PetSmart sold for $8.7 bn

IPO darling Alibaba is also the star of hedge fund reports

Yahoo! to invest some of its Alibaba cash into Snapchat

On eve of Alibaba's IPO, Senator urges SEC to look at risks in some Chinese offerings

Buffett's company fined by Justice Department over stock purchase

Behind Berkshire's violation was an old investment in USG, a producer of construction materials like drywall

Alibaba investing huge sums in US tech companies

Rupert Murdoch is rebuffed in offer for Time Warner

Reynolds in talks to acquire Lorillard in merger of tobacco rivals

If the deal between two of America's biggest tobacco firms is completed a $56-bn cigarette colossus would be created

Mergers hit a 7-year high, propelled by a series of blockbuster deals

Nearly $1.77 trillion worth of deals have been announced in the first six months of 2014

Medical device maker Medtronic eyes $45-bn deal

If completed, Medtronic would be the latest big American company to reincorporate abroad through a so-called inversion

T-Mobile, Sprint zeroing in on a $32-billion merger

Sprint and T-Mobile have talked about a combination for years but continued to put it off

Dai-ichi to buy Protective Life for $5.7 billion

Japanese companies have looked abroad for growth in recent years, as business in their home markets have posted slowing growth

Spreading the net: Alibaba's American aspirations

11 Main is Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's first website to specifically aim at American shoppers

China's Alibaba may be valued at $200 bn for US listing

Pfizer says will pursue AstraZeneca

Move is aimed at putting pressure on AstraZeneca, which has turned down a number of informal takeover approaches from Pfizer

Ackman and Valeant bid $45.6 bn for Botox maker

Shares of Weibo surge on opening day of IPO

The Chinese microblogging service Weibo was up 19% and shares of the real estate website Leju rose 18.6%

In Yahoo earnings, a peek at Alibaba's big growth