Jan 25th, 2010 · Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney said the conditions would have the effect of lowering ticket prices. For the merger to be approved, Ticketmaster must agree to license its ticketing software to competitor AEG and sell its subsidiary Paciolan to Comcast Spectacor.
Jan 14th, 2010 · Malcolm Venville's film is a derivative ode to wounded masculinity, a depressing merger of talent and inconsequence in which four seedy characters gather for a bit of revenge-taking — but succeed only in talking the audience half to death.
Dec 16th, 2009 · Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is being both applauded and scorned over his plan to downscale and merge five publicly-funded universities to addess a $700 million budget shortfall. But the proposal is being especially shunned by those who believe it unfairly puts Mississippi's minority students at a disadvantage. Three of the five schools included in Barbour's plan are historically black colleges — Alcorn State, Mississippi Valley State and Jackson State universities. George E. Ross, the outgoing president of Alcorn State, and Jackson State University president Ronald Mason, Jr., share their strong opposition to opposition to the merger and why they are fighting hard to block the governor's plan.
Dec 16th, 2009 · Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is being both applauded and scorned over his plan to downscale and merge five publicly-funded universities to addess a $700 million budget shortfall. But the proposal is being especially shunned by those who believe it unfairly puts Mississippi's minority students at a disadvantage. Three of the five schools included in Barbour's plan are historically black colleges — Alcorn State, Mississippi Valley State and Jackson State universities. George E. Ross, the outgoing president of Alcorn State, and Jackson State University president Ronald Mason, Jr., share their strong opposition to opposition to the merger and why they are fighting hard to block the governor's plan.
Dec 8th, 2009 · The "merger of the century" between AOL and Time Warner comes to an end this week as AOL gets spun off into an independent company. Technology columnist Kara Swisher talks to Steve Inskeep about the future of AOL. Swisher, who wrote two books on the company, explains what went wrong with the merger.
Oct 29th, 2009 · It's been one year since the nation's largest airline merger when Delta absorbed Northwest. Integrating the two companies generally has gone well, not withstanding the incident last week, when pilots on a flight to Minneapolis became so distracted they overflew their destination. They said they were studying the airline's new crew scheduling system on their laptops.
Oct 22nd, 2009 · The Treasury and Federal Reserve both announced new rules Thursday that would curb pay at U.S. financial institutions. Andrew Ross Sorkin, chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for The New York Times, discusses what effect the cuts are likely to have on Wall Street.
Oct 8th, 2009 · The proposed merger between concert promoter Live Nation and Ticketmaster is running into opposition from monopoly watchdogs in Britain. The Competition Commission issued a provisional ruling that says a merger of the two companies could "severely inhibit" a new rival from entering the market for live music events.