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Japan’s Recruit buys jobs website Glassdoor for $1.2 billion

Bloomberg Jobs and salaries portal Glassdoor Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Robert Hohman has a new boss. Japanese human-resources and consumer-information provider Recruit Holdings Co. has agreed to buy Glassdoor for $1.2 billion in cash. Through the tie-up, Recruit will gain access to the US website’s extensive cache of content such as employee reviews, while Glassdoor will seek to accelerate its ...

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Vodafone’s $22bn Liberty deal to reshape European telecom

Bloomberg Vodafone Group Plc is shaking up Europe’s fragmented media and telecom market with an 18.4 billion-euro ($22 billion) deal to buy almost a third of Liberty Global Plc, part of a global push for scale as carriers face massive network investments and competition from digital players. With the acquisition of Liberty Global’s German and Eastern European units, Vodafone Chief ...

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Disney’s Iger remains confident on Fox pact

Bloomberg Walt Disney Co.’s Robert Iger said he’s confident he can clinch a $52.4 billion deal for 21st Century Fox’s assets, despite the prospect of a bidding war against Comcast Corp. Disney’s chairman and chief executive officer said it’s “way too early” to speculate about the possibility of an auction for the assets his company agreed to buy in December. ...

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