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Alcon scraps $1.6B STAAR Surgical deal after shareholder revolt

Alcon (NYSE:ALC), the global leader in eye care, officially terminated its definitive merger agreement with STAAR Surgical Company (NASDAQ:STAA) on Tuesday, January 6, 2026.

The collapse of the deal, originally valued at $1.5 billion and later raised to approximately $1.6 billion, follows a decisive rejection by STAAR’s stockholders at a special meeting earlier that day.

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HIVE Digital surges as 2025 Bitcoin production jumps 31%

HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE) shares traded higher on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, following the release of its December 2025 production report and full-year results.

The company reported a banner year, producing 2,311 BTC in 2025—a 31% increase over the previous year—despite the significant headwinds of the 2024 halving and a 46% year-over-year surge in average network difficulty.

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8x8 expands APAC dominance with acquisition of Singapore’s Maven Lab

8x8 (NASDAQ:EGHT), a global leader in integrated cloud communications, announced on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, that it has acquired Maven Lab, a Singapore-based specialist in mobile marketing and enterprise messaging.

The acquisition is a strategic "step-change" for 8x8, designed to cement its leadership in the high-growth Asia-Pacific (APAC) customer engagement market.

By integrating Maven Lab’s team and its acclaimed Moobidesk platform into the 8x8 Platform for CX, the company is pivoting from traditional messaging toward "orchestrated, omnichannel customer journeys."

Moobidesk offers a unified interface for SMS, WhatsApp, Viber, LINE, and voice, featuring smart AI routing and automated response suggestions that have been shown to increase sales leads by an average of 10% for its enterprise clients.

The move comes as the CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) market is projected to grow from $32 billion today to nearly $100 billion by 2030.

With Maven Lab’s deep local carrier relationships and regional expertise, 8x8 is now uniquely positioned to support mission-critical, high-volume communications for the finance, healthcare, and logistics sectors across Southeast Asia.

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Ryder accelerates mobile maintenance growth with acquisition of Truck Service Depot

Ryder System (NYSE:R) announced the successful acquisition of Truck Service Depot, an Atlanta-based mobile maintenance firm, on January 5, 2026.

The move is a strategic bolt-on for Torque by Ryder™, the company’s rapidly expanding retail mobile maintenance division, as it seeks to capture a larger share of the on-demand fleet service market in the Southeast.

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