Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (NASDAQ:DJT) are soaring Thursday morning after the company announced a $6 billion merger with nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies.The price tag includes $200 million in cash for TAE at signing, plus $100 million upon filing of a Form S-4.Here's a look at the background of TAE Technologies, what the company hopes to accomplish and how the deal unites key investors, including President Donald Trump, Chevron (NYSE:CVX) , Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) and ...

Trump Media and Technology Group breaking news this morning announcing a merger with TAE Technologies, a $6 billion deal that the company says will blaze the path toward US dominance in AI. It is seeking out a location to bring construction on the world's first utility scale fusion power plant subject to required approvals. The move creates one of the first publicly traded fusion companies.Trump Media and Technology Group rising this morning. Take a look at the stock. It is up 24% right now.Had been up bett ...

TAE Technologies has announced a surprise merger with Trump Media and Technology Group, owned by the US president - Doug Mills/AFP via Getty Donald Trump’s technology company has announced a $6bn (£4.5bn) merger with a nuclear fusion start-up supported by the UK Government. TAE Technologies on Thursday announced a surprise tie-up with Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social, the US president’s social media site. Mr Trump is TMTG’s biggest shareholder and will own around a fifth ...

Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), the parent of President Donald Trump’s Truth Social, has agreed to merge with nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies in an all-stock deal valued at more than $6 billion. DJT shares are higher by 25% in early trading on Thursday, though still remaining sharply lower on a year-to-date basis. The deal will transform Trump Media from a social media operator into a clean energy and financial assets play, said the company in a press release. It builds on a crypto strate ...

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Donald Trump’s loss-making social media business has announced plans to merge with a fusion power company.Trump Media and Technology Group, owner of the US president’s minnow Truth Social platform, unveiled an extraordinary merger worth more than $6bn with TAE Technologies, combining its social media operation with a vast bet on the AI boom driving a surge in energy demand.TMTG intends to start building “the world’s first utility-scale fusion power plant” next year, it said, in an effort to use the experime ...

Trump Media & Technology will merge with a fusion power company in an all-stock deal that the companies said Thursday is valued at more than $6 billion. Devin Nunes, the Republican congressman who resigned in 2021 to become the CEO of Trump Media, will be co-CEO of the new company with TAE Technologies CEO Michl Binderbauer. Shares of Trump Media & Technology, the parent company of President Donald Trump's Truth Social media platform, have tumbled 70% this year but jumped 20% before the opening bell Thu ...

By Deborah Mary Sophia and Timothy Gardner Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is getting into the fusion power business through a $6 billion merger of his social media firm and Google-backed TAE Technologies, announced just days after industry leaders met with U.S. Energy Department representatives to urge federal funding. The all-stock deal announced on Thursday is an ​ambitious bet on the power boom spurred by artificial intelligence data-centers and adds to the Trump family's growing rost ...

The U.S. has halted a technology trade deal with the U.K., after officials in Washington became frustrated with the pace of progress, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.Announced in September during President Donald Trump's state visit to the U.K., the "technology prosperity deal" is a sweeping agreement aimed at encouraging collaboration between the countries on tech like artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion, and quantum computing.At the time, Trump said that the deal would "ensure our countries le ...

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