Morning Headlines 11/12/18

Veritas Capital, Elliott clinch $5.5 billion acquisition of Athenahealth

Reuters reports that Veritas Capital and Elliott Management will acquire Athenahealth for $135 per share.

Corporate America’s blockchain and bitcoin fever is over

Executives of S&P companies are dropping their references to blockchain in earnings calls, with buzzword-dropping down 80 percent as shareholders stopped believing the hype and share prices stopped increasing.

Hackers stole income, immigration and tax data in Healthcare.gov breach, government confirms

CMS notifies 75,000 Healthcare.gov customers – mostly brokers and agents – that the recent data breach did not expose financial or personal health information.