Activist investment firm Starboard Value LP called for a merger between office supply companies Staples Inc. and Office Depot Inc. in a letter Tuesday. The investor bought a stake in Staples and ...

The proposed $6.3 billion merger of Staples and Office Depot is kaput. Staples dropped its acquisition plans last night after a U.S. district court judge granted the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Staples and Office Depot today announced an agreement to sell more than $550 million in large corporate contract business and related assets to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — There are few places where evolving technology has been more disruptive than in the work place, which played out again Wednesday as Staples announced it would spend about $6 billion to ...

Staples’ $6.3 billion plan to buy rival office supplies chain Office Depot has hit a stumbling block. The Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust lawsuit that aims to block the acquisition, on ...

NEW YORK - The rapidly changing tools of the workplace and the way we shop has led to another major consolidation in the retail office supply business as Staples (SPLS) announced the $6 billion ...

Remember CompUSA and Circuit City? How about Borders or Office Max? They’re names out of the not-so-distant retail past; “big box” stores that focused their business model on delivering goods in a ...

A judge blocked the acquisition, so the companies are calling it quits A judge blocked the acquisition, so the companies are calling it quits is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, ...

Eighteen years after first attempting a merger, Staples and Office Depot are finally getting their wish: they are combining to form one giant office supply chain. The two companies -- whose shares ...

NEW YORK - There are few places where evolving technology has been more disruptive than in the work place, which played out again Wednesday as Staples announced it would spend about $6 billion to buy ...

The rapidly changing tools of the workplace and the way we shop has led to another major consolidation in the retail office supply business as Staples announced Wednesday the $6.3-billion acquisition ...