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Crimson Business Journal
Mergers & Acquisitions


Analyzing Micron’s Strategic Shift to Taiwan: Speed, Risk, and the AI Memory Race
Figure 1. The image above is micron’s office in Taichung, Taiwan. In less than two years, Micron Technology announced three major acquisitions in Taiwan, signaling an aggressive push to expand AI memory production capacity. As artificial intelligence systems rapidly scale, the global semiconductor industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. While much of the public focus remains on logic chips such as NVIDIA’s GPUs, memory has quietly emerged as a critical constraint
Sanjith Ananda Krishnan
May 249 min read


From Dry Powder to Deal Flow: Why Private Equity is Moving Into the Middle Market
More than $1.2 trillion in dry powder remains uninvested across private equity funds worldwide, nearly double what the industry had a decade ago. A figure that reflects the aggressive fundraising campaigns that firms launched during the post-pandemic investment boom, when the historically low interest rates and robust investor appetite encouraged capital formation at record levels. However, market conditions have shifted dramatically since then, with higher borrowing costs, w
Sana Reddy
May 248 min read


The $3.9 Billion Bet: DoorDash, Deliveroo, and the Uncomfortable Future of the Gig Economy
Having a restaurant meal appear at your doorstep within thirty minutes would have sounded impossible a couple of years ago. Now it is 2026 and the technology that once seemed like magic has become infrastructure. In Spring 2025, immediate delivery service spread from America to London through DoorDash's strategic acquisition of Deliveroo, a British delivery giant. As food delivery platforms race to dominate global markets, the strategies powering their growth are coming at a
Nithya Boddu
May 247 min read


The K-Shaped M&A Market: Why Big Firms Are Winning and Everyone Else Is Waiting
In 2025, the U.S. M&A market technically rebounded, but when you actually look at the numbers, almost all of that recovery came from just a few huge transactions. Megadeals worth $5 billion or more surged across tech, infrastructure, and large-scale industrial consolidation, while thousands of smaller companies were basically frozen out of the market. A lot of analysts have started calling this a K-shaped recovery, meaning that large, capital-rich firms are thriving while sma
Cameron Fiorella
May 219 min read
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