John West

Jan 9, 2025 | ionanalytics.com | John West |Lucy Chapman

News (Intelligence) Desmi, a Danish flow-technology company backed by One Equity Partners (OEP), is working with Carlsquare to undertake acquisitions of EUR 30m-EUR 150m, CEO Humphrey Lau has told Mergermarket. There is a “high sense of urgency” to transact, though Desmi has a 24-month window to complete its M&A plans, Lau added. Its hunt is largely focused on US and European targets, he said.

Dec 10, 2024 | wsj.com | Cameron McWhirter |Jacob Gershman |John West

The homemade handgun and suppressor that police say was used in last week’s killing of a UnitedHealthcare executive is intensifying the debate over the growing presence of such firearms in the U.S. The suspect in Brian Thompson’s death, Luigi Mangione, was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pa., carrying a 9mm handgun and silencer that appeared to have some parts made in a 3-D printer, according to New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

Nov 8, 2024 | wsj.com | John West |Kara Dapena

Party turnout dropped across the board, especially in non-battleground states, paving the way for Trump’s resurgenceYour browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 03:20This article is in your queue. Vice President Kamala Harris tried to build it, but they didn’t come. Across every core Democratic bloc, voters didn’t turn out. And the electorate that did turn out shifted toward President-elect Donald Trump, a Wall Street Journal analysis of preliminary vote data shows.

Aug 25, 2024 | wsj.com | Andrea Fuller |Alexa Corse |John West |Kara Dapena

Musk posted about 13,000 times this year through the end of July—almost as much as in all of 2023. That’s about 61 posts a day, compared with nine in 2019. If you were to read all his exchanges on X from the past 5½ years—including the posts he replied to—that would add up to about 1.5 million words. That’s roughly twice as long as the King James Bible. The words in Musk’s posts alone added up to more than 300,000—not counting emojis.

Aug 25, 2024 | wsj.com | Andrea Fuller |John West |Alexa Corse |Kara Dapena

Each dot is an exchange Musk had on X between 2019 and the end of July Exchanges with similar content are clustered together Each dot is an exchange Musk had on X between 2019 and the end of July Exchanges with similar content are clustered together Each dot is an exchange Musk had on X between 2019 and the end of July Exchanges with similar content are clustered together Each dot is an exchange Musk had on X between 2019 and the end of July Exchanges with similar content are clustered...