Consumerist:
After yesterday's news that Comcast was considering getting in on the already-under-antitrust-scrutiny merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, the original article has been updated to be slightly less bad. The Bloomberg (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Morgan Stanley have decided to delay and amend their initial plans to create a new securities firm by merging their brokerage units in Japan. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Mitsubishi UFJ and Morgan Stanley will change some of their initial plans to create a new securities firm by merging their brokerage units in Japan. (Read More)
The Guardian:
• £4bn merger with Iberia forced by heavy losses • Deal would open up new routes for passengersBritish Airways alarmed passengers a decade ago by removing the Union Jack from its tailfins. But they now have the prospect of th (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Veronica Horwell discovers that nature is an artist of improvisationThere was a sound reason why the opening of the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum last month was based around butterflies. In 1848, when Darwin was (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The cross-Atlantic merger extraordinaire between Hogan & Hartson and Lovells is starting to look serious, very serious.Thursday, the firms issued a joint press release announcing that the management of both firms unanimously (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At today’s Yahoo analyst event, Yahoo exec Bryan Lamkin shed some light on the company’s recent status update numbers. Yahoo launched its “status-casting” feature a few months ago, which added basic status updates to its Mail (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Xstrata abandons proposal before Takeover Panel deadline• Anglo American biggest FTSE faller, dropping 3.7%Anglo American has declared the idea of a merger with Xstrata "dead and buried" after its rival decided not to launc (Read More)
New York Times:
Two of three jet carriers that fly inter-island routes in Hawaii are merging in hopes of growing and taking market share away from Hawaiian Airlines. (Read More)
The Guardian:
She created some of the most thrilling, space-age buildings in Britain with her husband Jan Kaplicky. Now Amanda Levete is going it aloneThe moment I walk through the bright red door to Amanda Levete's new practice, I sense t (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is merging three of its research groups to ramp up its efforts in “social computing.” The company’s Rich Media Labs, Startup Labs, and a Microsoft Research creative systems group are being combined into (Read More)
Wireless-sector News - Congoo:
Tom Alexander enjoys life in the fast lane, but heading the UK's biggest mobile phone firm leaves little time for the race track It is a mark of just how busy Tom Alexander, the boss of Orange UK, has. (Read More)
New York Times:
The cable company is said to be in negotiations with General Electric to create a separate company, merging Comcast’s programming assets with NBC Universal.
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New York Times:
The cable company is said to be in negotiations with General Electric to create a separate company, merging Comcast’s programming assets with NBC Universal.
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TechCrunch:
Brightkite has been one of the major players in the location-based social networking game for a while now. Originally a TechStars startup, the company was bought in April by Limbo, with the goal of merging the two location se (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Two green focused media companies—3rdWhale and GenGreen—are merging. GenGreen claims the largest database of green businesses in North America, while 3rdWhale’s flagship iPhone app provides a way for users to find green busin (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Two green focused media companies—3rdWhale and GenGreenLife—are merging. GenGreenLife claims the largest database of green businesses in North America, while 3rdWhale’s flagship iPhone app provides a way for users to find gre (Read More)
New York Times:
Hedge fund manager John Paulson is kicking around the idea of merging troubled U.S. finance company CIT Group with failed mortgage lender IndyMac Federal Bank, The New York Post reported. (Read More)
PR.com Press Releases:
Some of the most the most medically important and commercially successful products consist of combinations of devices and pharmaceuticals (e.g., drug-eluting stents). Success in this medical development category requires brin (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Lib Dem leader says reforms will scale down a government that is 'too big, too powerful and too expensive'Nick Clegg today outlined plans to save £2bn from the cost of politics, which he said would be ploughed back into publi (Read More)