It is not entirely clear whether Twitter’s board will accept the $1 billion breakup fee or if there will be a court battle over the deal.
Boeing is cutting more than 12,000 jobs through layoffs and buyouts, with several thousand more jobs expected to be cut over the next few months as the aircraft deals with a downturn in travel caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Shares of Verizon are falling before the opening bell after the company said it would take a $4.6 billion hit for what's become an expensive internet foray that's never panned out.
The two companies had until midnight Wednesday to call off their deal.
Italian lottery operator GTECH and Nevada-based International Game Technology say they've cleared one regulatory hurdle in a multi-billion-dollar buyout that the companies expect to complete in the first half of 2015.