{"id":98679,"date":"2026-07-07T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/98679\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:25:09","slug":"high-stakes-deals-novartis-acquisition-skys-itv-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/98679\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Stakes Deals: Novartis Acquisition &#038; Sky&#8217;s ITV Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In major finance news, Novartis has struck a deal to acquire the UK biotech firm Myricx Bio for up to $1.5 billion, marking yet another foreign acquisition of British biotech companies.<\/p>\n<p>In broadcasting, Comcast&#8217;s Sky has entered a \u00a31.6 billion agreement to acquire ITV&#8217;s television business, intensifying the competition against digital giants like Netflix and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Maersk revives its Middle Eastern operations by planning a cargo transit through the Suez Canal, signaling a hopeful return to normalcy after a ceasefire was established in the region.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In major finance news, Novartis has struck a deal to acquire the UK biotech firm Myricx Bio for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[127],"tags":[48912,30389,48916,48615,206,48914,8545,48915,48913,48911],"class_list":["post-98679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-novartis","tag-digital-giants","tag-itv","tag-maersk","tag-myricx-bio","tag-novartis","tag-ocado","tag-sky","tag-suez-canal","tag-tim-steiner","tag-uk-biotech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116876799238094023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}