Bloomberg Nvidia Corp. agreed to buy chipmaker Mellanox Technologies Ltd. for $6.9 billion, gaining expertise to help it push into the growing market for data center components. Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia is paying $125 a share in cash for the company, which makes chips used to speed the flow of information across computer servers. That’s a 14 percent premium to ...

Bloomberg Barrick Gold Corp. is withdrawing its $17.8 billion hostile takeover bid for New- mont Mining Corp., with the companies opting instead to forge a joint venture around their Nevada projects. The change came weeks after Barrick proposed an all-share offer that would have created the world’s largest gold producer. After Newmont’s board rejected the bid, Newmont Chief Executive Officer ...

Bloomberg Google controls many of the ways businesses access customers online in the US, making it almost impossible to run a company without buying advertising from the internet giant. As politicians increase scrutiny of large technology companies, Google’s lock on these digital relationships is becoming a potential liability, not just a lucrative advantage praised each quarter by Wall Street analysts. ...