Ben Marlow of The Daily Telegraph, little old Betaville's former employer, has written a lengthy opinion piece on Vodafone.
Let me sum it up for you: if Vodafone doesn't do something quickly to arrest its flagging share price (down almost 50pc over the last five years) it could well easily become a takeover target for one of the "wealthy American telecom giants"...
It's taken fifteen years but little old Betaville today finally made it onto Markets Live as a host albeit in a slightly different way to its original format.
Let me clarify what Markets Live is for readers unfamiliar with this journalstic outlet. It was the the live knockabout chat about what is moving stock, bond and commodity markets run the Financial Times blog FT Alphaville...
The Bloomberg follow ups appear to be arriving on a daily, if not hourly, basis at the moment.
Now, Betaville's arch rivals have published a fresh follow up to little old Betaville's intelligence alert about Ontex (https://www.betaville.co.uk/betaville-intelligence/uncooked-alert-ontex-said-to-part-3/) earlier this year...
I see arch rivals at Bloomberg have published another follow up to little old Betaville's UNCOOKED ALERT about Silicon Motion Technology Corporation.
Now hacks at Bloomie are suggesting MaxLinear Inc, a US-listed hardware business, is in talks to buy Silicon Motion Technology Corporation.
Below are the links to the Bloomie "scoop" in case you missed it and Betaville's UNCOOKED ALERT:..
EG Group, the owner of Asda supermarkets, and Alimentation Couche-Tard are reportedly in deal talks as part of a transaction that could value the former at $16 billion.
Well, that's according to hacks at the Wall Street Journal, which rather annoyingly is on a bit of decent run of digging out scoops...
Clearly there are more important things going on in the world at the moment than corporate mergers & acquisitions.
But for readers obsessed with deals, there were a few stories that cropped up over the last twenty four hours that piqued Betaville's interest...
After this morning's UNCOOKED Alert a charming chap from Bloomberg got in touch to apologise for the mistake in aggregating Betaville content accurately.
And I understand Bloomberg has corrected its story from yesterday, which is very gracious of the global financial media outlet.
So, no hard feelings then from Betaville's end.
Now let's get back to competing for scoops and stories!..
Sanjeev Gupta's advisers at PricewaterhouseCoopers have got in touch with potential acquirers of Liberty Steel's engineering division to formally begin the sale process of the unit.
Now, Betaville realises that perhaps this might be a bit of wrinkle on the running Gupta-Liberty Steel-Greensill-David Cameron story as it had already been flagged up that PWC was carrying out a 'strategic review' of Liberty Steel's engineering division...
Betaville has been watching the goings on at BT Group with interest.
For readers unfamiliar with the situation, the company recently announced Jan Du Plessis, the chairman, was planning to retire but that announcement was swiftly followed up by a scoop from the Kleinmanator of Sky News about how Philip Jansen, BT's chief executive, gave boardroom colleagues an ultimatum over his own future that led to the departure...
Quelle surprise: the Takeover Panel has just announced an auction as a solution to solve the G4S bid battle stalement was on the money.
Below is a link to the announcement of the auction and also my previous article: