Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Agrees to Buy Exact Sciences for $21 Billion
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 11/20/2025CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE307 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., and MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) today announced a definitive agreement".^[1]
Abbott agreed to buy Cologuard maker Exact Sciences for $105 a share in cash, a total equity value of about $21 billion, to enter cancer screening and precision oncology diagnostics.
$21B
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Reports Q2 2026 Results and Raises Full-Year EPS Guidance
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 07/16/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE69 days agoThe release, datelined "ABBOTT^[5] PARK, Ill., July 16, 2026", says "Abbott will live-webcast its second-quarter earnings conference call ... at 8 a.m. Central time today", so the pin is 8 a.m. CDT (13:00 UTC) on 16 July 2026.
Abbott posted second-quarter sales of $12.59 billion, up 13.0% reported and 4.8% comparable, and adjusted EPS of $1.31, and raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.45 to $5.60.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Settles DOJ Infant Formula Claims for $385 Million
Abbott Laboratories…Sturgis, Saint Joseph County, Michigan, 49091, United States
Starts 09/14/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE9 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 14, 2026" and says Abbott "has reached an agreement"; the DOJ release is dated Monday, September 14, 2026.^[1]
Abbott will pay about $385 million ($384,999,040) to resolve Justice Department, state and whistleblower claims over powdered infant formula made at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the site of the 2022 recall. Abbott admits no liability, and the government has closed its criminal investigation.
$385M
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Settles Gill Case and 2,000 NEC Formula Claims for $670M
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 08/20/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE34 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 20, 2026" and the 8-K says "On August 20, 2026 ... Abbott entered into agreements to resolve the Gill lawsuit".^[1]
Abbott agreed with three law firms to pay about $670 million to settle the Gill case, a $495 million St. Louis jury award, and NEC claims for about 2,000 other preterm infants fed its specialty formulas. About 1,700 lawsuits covering some 12,700 infants remain.
$670M
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Business09/23/2026@HealthDesk
J&J Completes Its $1 Billion Acquisition of Firefly Bio
South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California, United StatesJohnson & Johnson…
Starts 07/29/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE56 days ago"NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (July 29, 2026) - Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ^[1][3]) today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Firefly Bio, Inc. ... for $1 billion in cash"; the 8-K furnishing it gives "Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 29, 2026".
Johnson & Johnson closed its $1 billion cash purchase of Firefly Bio, the South San Francisco biotech behind the Firelink degrader antibody conjugate platform for KRAS-driven and other hard-to-treat solid tumours.
$1B
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Software09/23/2026@TechDesk
AWS Agrees to Acquire DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
Science Park, 1098 XH Amsterdam, NetherlandsAmazon…
Starts 08/26/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE28 days agoThe Amazon^[5] News post (article:published_time 2026-08-26) says "Amazon has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs^[3][4]", and DuckLabs' own release dated 2026-08-26 says it "today announced that it will become part of Amazon Web Services".
Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Q3 2026 Earnings and Conference Call
Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United StatesAbbott Laboratories…
Starts 10/21/2026 1:00PMESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCEin 28 daysAbbott has not yet posted its third-quarter call notice (last year's, on 24 September, said it "will announce its third-quarter 2025 financial results on Wednesday, Oct. 15, before the market opens" with the call "at 8 a.m. Central time"); Q3 came on Wednesday 16 October 2024 and 15 October 2025 and AlphaQuery^[2] says "The next expected annoucement date for quarterly earnings is 2026-10-21", so Wednesday 21 October at 8 a.m. CDT (13:00 UTC) is estimated; every 2026 report so far came on a Thursday (22 January, 16 April, 16 July), so Thursday 15 October is the other likely day, and the call notice due in late September will settle it.
Abbott is expected to report third-quarter 2026 results before the market opens and webcast its earnings call at 8 a.m. Central, most likely on Wednesday 21 October; it has guided to adjusted EPS of $1.38 to $1.46.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
FDA Approves Abbott's TactiFlex Duo Ablation Catheter
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 09/08/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE15 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 8, 2026" and says Abbott "announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA^[3]) approval" (the FDA's record gives a decision date of 09/04/2026).
The FDA approved Abbott's TactiFlex Duo, a catheter that can deliver pulsed field ablation, radiofrequency energy or both in one procedure to treat complex atrial fibrillation. The approval rested on the FlexPulse IDE study.
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Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
New Wharf Completed at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica
Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, AntarcticaRoyal BAM Group
Starts 04/16/2020CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE6.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "For the first time, polar ships have moored at a new £40 million wharf".
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£40M
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Reports Q4 and Full-Year 2025 Results
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
Starts 03/04/2026 11:40AMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE203 days agoStated as firm: the release is datelined "(AKRON, Ohio – March 4, 2026)" with no clock time, and the Form 8-K furnishing it as Exhibit 99.1 shows "Accepted 2026-03-04 06:40:37" (ET) on SEC^[3][4][5] EDGAR, so the pin is timed to 06:40 ET (11:40 UTC); the call to discuss it came later, on "Monday, March 16, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET".
Fourth-quarter revenue was $161.0 million and adjusted EBITDA $16.4 million, and full-year 2025 adjusted EBITDA rose 107% to $43.7 million. Backlog reached $2.8 billion with the $2.4 billion Base Electron AI data-centre power project announced the same morning.
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Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
CERN Announces a Particle Consistent With the Higgs Boson
CERN, 1, Route de Meyrin, Meyrin, Geneva, 1211, SwitzerlandCERN
Starts 07/04/2012CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE14.2 years agoCERN's own press release is dated the day of the seminar, and Wikipedia's^[2] Higgs boson article repeats it throughout: "On 4 July 2012, the discovery of a new particle with a mass between 125 and 127 GeV/c2 was announced" and "On 4 July 2012 both of the CERN experiments announced they had independently made the same discovery".
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott and Google Partner on Lingo Glucose Insights and AI Coaching
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 08/11/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE43 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 11, 2026" and says Abbott "today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Google Health".^[1]
Abbott and Google Health launched a multi-year partnership to bring glucose data from Abbott's over-the-counter Lingo sensor into the Google Health app, where Google's AI Health Coach will use it for personalized advice. The deal includes one of the largest real-world metabolic health studies.
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The release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., March 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Exact Sciences".^[1]

Start: Mar 23, 202690% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Abbott Completes Its Acquisition of Exact Sciences

Abbott closed its $105-a-share cash purchase of Cologuard maker Exact Sciences, which became a wholly owned Abbott subsidiary; Exact Sciences shares last traded on Nasdaq on 20 March.

Abbott completed the acquisition of Exact Sciences on 23 March 2026, making it a wholly owned subsidiary; 20 March was the last day Exact Sciences shares traded on the Nasdaq^[1]
Each Exact Sciences share was converted into the right to receive $105.00 in cash; trading was halted before the open on 23 March and Exact asked Nasdaq to delist the stock^[3]
Exact Sciences stockholders had approved the merger at a special meeting on 20 February 2026, and every regulatory approval needed to close was in hand by 19 March^[4]
Abbott expected the deal to add about $3 billion of sales in 2026, lift its 2026 sales growth by about 0.5% and dilute 2026 adjusted earnings per share by about $0.20^[5]
Abbott now sells Cologuard, Oncotype DX, the Oncodetect residual-disease test and the Cancerguard multi-cancer blood test, and puts the U.S. cancer screening and precision oncology diagnostics segments at $60 billion^[1]
Exact Sciences reported $3.25 billion of revenue in 2025 and has about 7,000 employees, around half of them in Wisconsin; Abbott pledged to keep its presence in Madison^[2][6]

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abbott.mediaroom.com/2026-03-23-Abbott-completes-acquisition-of-Exact-Sciences
abbott.mediaroom.com· Posted Sep 23, 2026· Starts Mar 23, 2026 ✓· 29% of score
The release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., March 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Exact Sciences".
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Abbott closes $23 billion deal to buy Madison-based Exact Sciences (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
finance.yahoo.com· Published Mar 24, 2026· 14% of score
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the close: about 7,000 Exact Sciences employees, around half in Wisconsin, and Abbott's pledge to keep its Madison presence.^[1]
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Exact Sciences Corporation Form 8-K: Completion of the merger with Abbott
sec.gov· Published Mar 23, 2026· 14% of score
Exact Sciences' 8-K: the merger took effect on 23 March 2026, each share became $105.00 in cash, trading was halted before the open and Nasdaq was asked to file a Form 25 delisting.^[1]
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Exact Sciences Corporation Form 8-K: Regulatory approvals received, merger anticipated to close March 23, 2026
sec.gov· Published Mar 20, 2026· 14% of score
Exact Sciences' 8-K: all regulatory approvals received as of 19 March 2026, stockholders approved on 20 February 2026, closing anticipated on 23 March.^[1]
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Abbott acquisition of Exact Sciences set to close on March 23, 2026
abbott.mediaroom.com· Published Mar 20, 2026· 14% of score
Abbott's notice that it expected to close on Monday 23 March after all regulatory clearances, with about $3 billion of 2026 sales added and about $0.20 of 2026 adjusted EPS dilution.^[1]

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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Agrees to Buy Exact Sciences for $21 Billion
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 11/20/2025CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE307 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., and MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) today announced a definitive agreement".^[1]
Abbott agreed to buy Cologuard maker Exact Sciences for $105 a share in cash, a total equity value of about $21 billion, to enter cancer screening and precision oncology diagnostics.
$21B
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Reports Q2 2026 Results and Raises Full-Year EPS Guidance
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 07/16/2026 1:00PMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE69 days agoThe release, datelined "ABBOTT^[5] PARK, Ill., July 16, 2026", says "Abbott will live-webcast its second-quarter earnings conference call ... at 8 a.m. Central time today", so the pin is 8 a.m. CDT (13:00 UTC) on 16 July 2026.
Abbott posted second-quarter sales of $12.59 billion, up 13.0% reported and 4.8% comparable, and adjusted EPS of $1.31, and raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.45 to $5.60.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Settles DOJ Infant Formula Claims for $385 Million
Abbott Laboratories…Sturgis, Saint Joseph County, Michigan, 49091, United States
Starts 09/14/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE9 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 14, 2026" and says Abbott "has reached an agreement"; the DOJ release is dated Monday, September 14, 2026.^[1]
Abbott will pay about $385 million ($384,999,040) to resolve Justice Department, state and whistleblower claims over powdered infant formula made at its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the site of the 2022 recall. Abbott admits no liability, and the government has closed its criminal investigation.
$385M
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Settles Gill Case and 2,000 NEC Formula Claims for $670M
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 08/20/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE34 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 20, 2026" and the 8-K says "On August 20, 2026 ... Abbott entered into agreements to resolve the Gill lawsuit".^[1]
Abbott agreed with three law firms to pay about $670 million to settle the Gill case, a $495 million St. Louis jury award, and NEC claims for about 2,000 other preterm infants fed its specialty formulas. About 1,700 lawsuits covering some 12,700 infants remain.
$670M
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Business09/23/2026@HealthDesk
J&J Completes Its $1 Billion Acquisition of Firefly Bio
South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California, United StatesJohnson & Johnson…
Starts 07/29/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE56 days ago"NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (July 29, 2026) - Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ^[1][3]) today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Firefly Bio, Inc. ... for $1 billion in cash"; the 8-K furnishing it gives "Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 29, 2026".
Johnson & Johnson closed its $1 billion cash purchase of Firefly Bio, the South San Francisco biotech behind the Firelink degrader antibody conjugate platform for KRAS-driven and other hard-to-treat solid tumours.
$1B
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Software09/23/2026@TechDesk
AWS Agrees to Acquire DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
Science Park, 1098 XH Amsterdam, NetherlandsAmazon…
Starts 08/26/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE28 days agoThe Amazon^[5] News post (article:published_time 2026-08-26) says "Amazon has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs^[3][4]", and DuckLabs' own release dated 2026-08-26 says it "today announced that it will become part of Amazon Web Services".
Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott Q3 2026 Earnings and Conference Call
Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United StatesAbbott Laboratories…
Starts 10/21/2026 1:00PMESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCEin 28 daysAbbott has not yet posted its third-quarter call notice (last year's, on 24 September, said it "will announce its third-quarter 2025 financial results on Wednesday, Oct. 15, before the market opens" with the call "at 8 a.m. Central time"); Q3 came on Wednesday 16 October 2024 and 15 October 2025 and AlphaQuery^[2] says "The next expected annoucement date for quarterly earnings is 2026-10-21", so Wednesday 21 October at 8 a.m. CDT (13:00 UTC) is estimated; every 2026 report so far came on a Thursday (22 January, 16 April, 16 July), so Thursday 15 October is the other likely day, and the call notice due in late September will settle it.
Abbott is expected to report third-quarter 2026 results before the market opens and webcast its earnings call at 8 a.m. Central, most likely on Wednesday 21 October; it has guided to adjusted EPS of $1.38 to $1.46.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
FDA Approves Abbott's TactiFlex Duo Ablation Catheter
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 09/08/2026CONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE15 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Sept. 8, 2026" and says Abbott "announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA^[3]) approval" (the FDA's record gives a decision date of 09/04/2026).
The FDA approved Abbott's TactiFlex Duo, a catheter that can deliver pulsed field ablation, radiofrequency energy or both in one procedure to treat complex atrial fibrillation. The approval rested on the FlexPulse IDE study.
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Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
New Wharf Completed at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica
Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, AntarcticaRoyal BAM Group
Starts 04/16/2020CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE6.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "For the first time, polar ships have moored at a new £40 million wharf".
BAM completed a new £40 million, 74-metre steel wharf at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station so the new polar vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough could dock and resupply the base.
£40M
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Babcock & Wilcox Reports Q4 and Full-Year 2025 Results
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox…
Starts 03/04/2026 11:40AMCONFIRMED 86% CONFIDENCE203 days agoStated as firm: the release is datelined "(AKRON, Ohio – March 4, 2026)" with no clock time, and the Form 8-K furnishing it as Exhibit 99.1 shows "Accepted 2026-03-04 06:40:37" (ET) on SEC^[3][4][5] EDGAR, so the pin is timed to 06:40 ET (11:40 UTC); the call to discuss it came later, on "Monday, March 16, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET".
Fourth-quarter revenue was $161.0 million and adjusted EBITDA $16.4 million, and full-year 2025 adjusted EBITDA rose 107% to $43.7 million. Backlog reached $2.8 billion with the $2.4 billion Base Electron AI data-centre power project announced the same morning.
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Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
CERN Announces a Particle Consistent With the Higgs Boson
CERN, 1, Route de Meyrin, Meyrin, Geneva, 1211, SwitzerlandCERN
Starts 07/04/2012CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE14.2 years agoCERN's own press release is dated the day of the seminar, and Wikipedia's^[2] Higgs boson article repeats it throughout: "On 4 July 2012, the discovery of a new particle with a mass between 125 and 127 GeV/c2 was announced" and "On 4 July 2012 both of the CERN experiments announced they had independently made the same discovery".
At a seminar at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments each report a new boson at around 125-126 GeV at five sigma, independently and from the same data-taking runs. It is the last unverified piece of the Standard Model.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott and Google Partner on Lingo Glucose Insights and AI Coaching
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 08/11/2026CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE43 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 11, 2026" and says Abbott "today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Google Health".^[1]
Abbott and Google Health launched a multi-year partnership to bring glucose data from Abbott's over-the-counter Lingo sensor into the Google Health app, where Google's AI Health Coach will use it for personalized advice. The deal includes one of the largest real-world metabolic health studies.
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