Valeant Pharmaceuticals is purchasing Sprout for $1 billion.

PetSmart, with its brick-and-mortar allure, sells for $8.7 billion.

Congratulations, you're being offered a buyout. Is that… good?

The deal promises big cost-savings for both underperforming businesses.

The rumor bubbles on a Sodastream sale are going flat.

We'll likely hear more this week about when, exactly, Mitt Romney left his top job at Bain Capital. But here's the question that will persist: Job creator, or job destroyer? And that question's bigger than Bain, bigger than Romney — bigger than any one election.