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Be Glad There's Not A Wave Of Mergers And Acquisitions

Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.02.2013 | Business
Mark Gongloff

There are a couple of stories today questioning why an expected wave of mergers and acquisitions hasn't happened yet. We should be glad it hasn't.

About Leadership: Good and Bad Behavior in Mergers

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 05.21.2013 | Business
Bernie Bulkin

It is the people at the top, for example the two CEOs in a merger, who set the example by their behavior in front of others. The other senior executives will take their clues from the examples they see, and this will percolate down through the management.

The Koch Brothers and Structural Rules

Zephyr Teachout | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Zephyr Teachout

One of the key jobs of democratic governance is choosing the nature of the marketplace we want to support. What rules about mergers or sitting on multiple boards would have made a difference in the development of Koch Industries?

Will FCC Chairman Genachowski Allow More Job Destruction in a T-Mobile/MetroPCS Merger?

Nathan Newman | Posted 05.05.2013 | Technology
Nathan Newman

When merging companies talk about cost savings through "synergy," the workers know that pink slips are usually on the way. That's what we can expect if FCC Chairman Genachowski allows a merger of T-Mobile and MetroPCS to go through without conditions to protect employment.

One Book, One World! The Plot to Destroy Publishing Exposed

Linda Howard Urbach | Posted 04.27.2013 | Comedy
Linda Howard Urbach

Watson slipped off his size 13 tasseled loafers and I saw that he was standing on large penguin feet.

Office Supply Chains To Merge

HuffPost/AP | Posted 02.21.2013 | Business

UPDATE: A deal to merge Office Depot and OfficeMax is now official, OfficeMax said Wednesday in a press release made available on its website: "O...

Another Big Merger Is In The Works

Reuters | Posted 02.18.2013 | Business

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Office supply companies OfficeMax Inc and Office Depot Inc are in advanced talks to merge, the Wall Street Journal reported, citi...

Eleazar David Melendez

New Era Of Big Deals Should Concern Consumers, Workers

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleazar David Melendez | Posted 02.15.2013 | Business

A recent spate of mega-mergers is leading some on Wall Street to declare the era of big deals is back. Large transactions involving household-name com...

Why The Merger Won't Be That Bad

George Hobica | Posted 04.16.2013 | Travel
George Hobica

You'll have more miles to play with. If you have 10,000 in US and 15,000 in AA (not enough for a free trip), now you will have enough.

Eleazar David Melendez

The Big Loser In The American Airlines-US Airways Merger

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleazar David Melendez | Posted 02.08.2013 | Business

Air travelers may end up losing big in a deal that would create the largest airline in the U.S., consumer advocates told The Huffington Post, after va...

Planes, Trains and Cars: Cartels Take Over the Travel Industry

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 11.22.2012 | Business
Blake Fleetwood

If airlines and car rental companies want to increase market share, the big guys should have to earn it by winning the business and loyalty of their customers; not by gobbling up competitors or driving them out of business

Publishers, Weakly: What the Penguin/Random House Merger Really Means

Michael_Levin | Posted 12.29.2012 | Books
Michael_Levin

The publishers will blame everyone in sight for their predicament, but this is a self-inflicted wound; what the Brits would call an "own goal."

My Message to the World

Michael Lutin | Posted 11.10.2012 | Weird News
Michael Lutin

Because of the unusual cosmic patterns going on in the sky right now, everyone is struggling, from Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, to you, madly scrambling...

The Merger in Dayton

Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.27.2012 | Arts
Michael Kaiser

Three arts organizations in Dayton, Ohio, recently made history by merging together. The Dayton Ballet, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Dayton Opera are now going to be one organization named Dayton Performing Alliance.

Shady Merger Facing Probe

AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 07.07.2012 | Business

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The sudden decision to replace the chief executive tapped to run America's largest electric company has prompted North Carolina's att...

Bankrupt Airline To Consider Huge Merger

AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 05.12.2012 | Business

DALLAS -- American Airlines says it is agreeing with creditors to consider potential mergers while it is still under bankruptcy protection. American ...

Companies Have Cash, Won't Share

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.23.2012 | Business

Companies around the world have tons of cash and talk all big about how confident they are about the economy, and yet they're sitting on their hands w...

D.M. Levine

Merger Efforts In the Works

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.20.2012 | Business

US Airways says it has taken a first step to a potential merger with rival American Airlines. The company has reached an agreement with the three ...

Patients and Consumers Must Be Protected From Mega-PBM Merger

Eva M. Clayton | Posted 05.23.2012 | Business
Eva M. Clayton

If Express Scripts is allowed to merge with Medco, it is very possible that the consolidated PBM will use its size and dominance to steer patients away from their local pharmacy and toward the company's own services.

Popcorn And Pringles Just Don't Mix

AP | CANDICE CHOI and MICHELLE CHAPMAN | Posted 04.16.2012 | Business

NEW YORK — Kellogg is hoping Pringles will satisfy its craving for a salty snack. The food giant is best known for its lineup of sweet breakfas...

PBM Merger Means More Bad News For Consumers

Eva M. Clayton | Posted 03.30.2012 | Business
Eva M. Clayton

American consumers, still worried about finding or keeping their jobs and paying their bills in today's troubled economy, could receive another blow if a major health-industry merger between Express Scripts, Inc. and Medco Healthy Solutions is approved.

Deutsche Boerse, NYSE Euronext Extend Merger Deadline Through March 31

Posted 12.28.2011 | Business

(LUKE JEFFS, Reuters) - Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext have extended the deadline for completion of their planned merger to March 31 next year ...

The History and Politics Behind Coke's Saudi Investment

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 02.14.2012 | World
Faisal J. Abbas

To many, Coca Cola's decision to invest $980 million in buying a stake in leading Saudi beverage manufacturer, Aujan Industries, may simply seem as an...

Health and Retirement Are the Hangup in AFTRA Netcode Negotiations (Exclusive)

Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.05.2012 | Entertainment
Jonathan Handel

AFTRA's negotiations with the networks and television producers resume this week and the big issue, according to a source close to the process, is th...

Child's Play: The PBM Merger That Can Learn From Childhood Lessons

John Horton | Posted 02.01.2012 | Business
John Horton

As regulators consider the Express Scripts/Medco merger, they should consider the patient's point of view -- and whether the market is already so concentrated that the proposed merger will simply make an existing problem worse.