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.
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.
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?
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.
Watson slipped off his size 13 tasseled loafers and I saw that he was standing on large penguin feet.
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...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Office supply companies OfficeMax Inc and Office Depot Inc are in advanced talks to merge, the Wall Street Journal reported, citi...
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...
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.
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...
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
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."
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...
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.
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...
DALLAS -- American Airlines says it is agreeing with creditors to consider potential mergers while it is still under bankruptcy protection. American ...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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.
(LUKE JEFFS, Reuters) - Deutsche Boerse and NYSE Euronext have extended the deadline for completion of their planned merger to March 31 next year ...
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...
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...
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.
