March 24 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Tuesday: ** State-backed Poste Italiane has made a 10.8 billion euro ($12.5 billion) cash-and-share offer to bring Telecom Italia (TIM) back into state hands, about three decades after an ill-fated privatisation. ** The Toyota group's tender offer to take supplier Toyota Industries (...

March 24 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods ( SFD ) beat analysts' estimates for fourth-quarter sales and profit on Tuesday, helped by resilient demand for packaged meats and cost-saving efforts, lifting the U.S. pork processor's shares nearly 4% higher in premarket trading. More U.S. consumers are opting to cook at home than dine out as they tighten their budgets amid persistently...

05:31 AM EDT, 03/24/2026 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with OpenAI's response in the third paragraph.) Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed (MSFT) OpenAI will start showing ads to its free and Go users of ChatGPT in the US in the coming weeks, two media outlets reported over the weekend, citing the startup. OpenAI is using Criteo (CRTO) as its first advertising technology...

05:36 AM EDT, 03/24/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Campbell Rogers, Chief Medical Officer, on March 19, 2026, sold 64,533 shares in Heartflow ( HTFL ) for $1,658,033. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Rogers has control over a total of 224,058 common shares of the company, with 78,518 shares held directly and 145,540 controlled indirectly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1464521/000146452126000048/xslF345X05/form4.xml ...