Merger

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Who benefits when airlines merge? Who gets hit the hardest?
By Patrick Smith Feb 15, 2008

  • The king of beer mergers

    Will patriotic Americans stand by while a foreign brewery chugs down red-white-and-blue Budweiser? Or will they say, good riddance!
    By Andrew Leonard June 12, 2008

  • Bigger than both of us

    Time Warner and AOL shareholders bless the marriage. But will Europe and the U.S. government throw rice?
    By Sean Elder June 24, 2000

  • Parlez-vous Universal?

    French media giant Vivendi takes over Universal Pictures. Cue the Jerry Lewis flicks?
    By Gregg Kilday June 22, 2000

  • Fight the power

    A group of consumer advocates and content providers is fighting the merger of AOL and Time Warner. These strange bedfellows won't kill the deal, but they could alter it for the better.
    By Sean Elder June 14, 2000

  • Why Microsoft's bid for Yahoo is an act of surrender

    In the annals of Silicon Valley culture, this merger fight is a definite biggie. But everyone knows Steve Ballmer's real target is Google.
    By Andrew Leonard February 1, 2008

  • The Homeland Security merger mess

    A Harvard analyst says government consolidation won't improve the fight against terrorism quickly, and maybe not at all. The reason: Most big corporate mergers fail.
    By Farhad Manjoo November 21, 2002

  • Bungled election projections? Blame the feds!

    Media misinformation is yet another example of failed antitrust regulation.
    By Moshe Adler December 7, 2000

  • Adding up the funny numbers

    Media Metrix's merger with Jupiter Communications creates an intimidating one-stop shop for Web analysis.
    By Janelle Brown June 28, 2000

  • The return of the dead-tree media

    Analysts are comparing the merger of Times Mirror and the Tribune Company to AOL-Time Warner, but the combined company looks more like an industrial age holdout than a 21st century media giant.
    By Sean Elder March 15, 2000

  • In vino veritas

    What does Steve Case's choice of wine reveal about the AOL-Time Warner deal?
    By Burt Wolf January 27, 2000

  • Does AOL Time Warner spell trouble for new-media companies?

    Lots of Web companies count on visitors from AOL. Will they get as many when the online service owns its own content?
    By Janelle Brown January 14, 2000

  • The geeks vs. the marketroids

    The AOL-Time Warner deal sets the freewheeling Internet on a collision course with the masters of mass-market convenience.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 14, 2000

  • The Net on AOL's Time Warner deal

    Will the new colossus change the Internet for better or worse?
    By Janelle Brown, Damien Cave and Lydia Lee January 11, 2000

  • AOL and Time Warner's marriage of insecurity

    Fear drove the two companies into bed with each other. Now it's our turn to be afraid.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 10, 2000

  • This week in travel

    Wanderlust's selective guide to travel-related news from across the globe
    By Susanna Stromberg January 22, 1999
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