Bid & Ask

摘要

1. Dish Network made a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel that may disrupt Sprint's previous merger deal with SoftBank, the Japanese mobile phone company. 2. Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific will pay $13.6 billion for California's Life Technologies, a maker of lab equipment used for gene mapping and medical testing. 3. In what is the coffee industry's biggest deal to date, Joh. A. Benckiser, the investment arm of the billionaire Reimann family, is buying D.E Master Blenders 1753 for about $9.8 billion.