Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions

Weak Companies, Strong Mergers?

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Update

Take Two From big molecules spring big deals: Drugmaker Wyeth, which develops large-molecule pharmaceuticals cultivated from living cells ("Grand Experiment," February), is set to be acquired by Pfizer in a $68 billion ...READ»

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Merger She Wrote

Work in three acts: our players fret about being acquired, wrestle with their roles, and decide whether to be stars -- or to make their exits.READ»

7 Lessons From WaMu's Playbook

Mergers and acquisitions are, once again, shaking up all kinds of industries. The big question: How do you do them right? Here's the playbook according to Washington Mutual, one of the best in the business.READ»

Is Bigger Better?

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Microsoft's Acquisition of aQuantive Jabs at Google-DoubleClick

Who knew? Back in April when I interviewed aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews for the ad:tech San Francisco opening keynote, "The Digital Decade: What the Past 5 Years Can Teach Us About the Next 5," the industry was abuzz about the ...READ»

When Dinosaurs Embrace

When all else fails, you can always merge. That seems to be the message behind Federated's $11 billion acquisition of May Department Stores. These are two struggling businesses in a moribund industry: for more than a decade now, ...READ»

Merrill Lynch Works - at Home

The Wall Street giant has created a one-of-a-kind program to teach its telecommuters how to get the job done.READ»

In The Hot Seat

Who: Ginni Rometty

Title: General Manager

Company: IBM Business Consulting Services

Where: Somers, NY

Challenge: Lead the just-created, largest consulting-services company in the worldREAD»

Will You Be Acquired, and Then What Happens?

A common misconception from companies contemplating an exit is that M&A has dried up as the venture and IPO markets have. This is not to say that M&A hasn’t been affected by the current market conditions, but dried up? No. Case ...READ»

CEOCast Where Wall Street Listens

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Crocs Feast on New Acquisitions

Shoe manufacturer Crocs Inc. continues to gobble up manufacturing companies in a worldwide acquisition spree. The Colorado-based clog and boot producer recently purchased EXO Italia S.r.I. based in Padova, Italy, and plans to acquire ...READ»

Fruit Stand Lending

Who's that man walking through the street markets of Ecuador, trying to make $50 loans? It's Michael Chu, a former executive of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co., the world's most powerful leveraged buyout operator.READ»

Moving Beyond Ugly

The battle between PeopleSoft and Oracle is getting uglier. Now that they're in the discovery stage, PeopleSoft has been given permission to search a computer... that's on one of Larry Ellison's boats... that's currently anchored in ...READ»

Merger Mania

Comcast bids on Disney. Cingular buys AT&T Wireless. North Fork acquires Greenpoint. Holy merger mania! Two professors from Wharton and Stanford suggest that mergers -- and the accompanying mania -- may result from overconfidence. ...READ»

Merger Meltdown

The voracious corporate appetite for mergers in recent years has caused a bad case of indigestion for mega companies like AOL Time Warner, DaimlerChrysler, and J.P. Morgan Chase. Do these partnerships add up to less than the sum of their parts?READ»

E-Lab

Previously featured in issue 5, page 105 Experience matters -- now more than ever -- for E-Lab LLC, a savvy research and design consulting group with a singular insight on the consumer experience. In October 1996, when Fast Company ...READ»

When Cultures Collide

In fast moving industries, it can be devilishly difficult to stay ahead of the curve. When confronted with a brash startup wielding a revolutionary technology, incumbents can fight... or they can simply reach into their deep pockets ...READ»

Letter From the Magazine: Lessons of the Fall

There is no more common lament in corporate C-suites than the sorry state of the American education system. Our next generation is said to be woefully unprepared for the economy of the future, while other countries steam ahead, ...READ»

Carly's Latest Challenge

Hewlett-Packard announced its lower-than-expected third-quarter earnings and posted an operating loss of $208 million. CEO Carly Fiorina blamed the loss to business server and storage unit and fired three executives, including Peter ...READ»

Signs of the Times

Mergers and acquisitions ahead!READ»

Software & IT M&A Update - July 2009

Here is a link to Corum's latest M&A Flash update. This month we were joined by Microsoft's Marc Brown, Managing Director of Corporate Development. July Flash Webinar http://www.corumgroup.com/Software-MA-Webinar-Archive.aspxREAD»

Microsoft and Yahoo: The Bid Heard 'Round the Web

Early today, Microsoft announced its bid to acquire Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. The offer amounts to $31 per share, a 62 percent increase over Yahoo's stock price of $19.18 on Thursday. The proposed deal, as widely reported, signals ...READ»

Merging Questions

Fast Company first wrote about the competition between XM and Sirius a couple of years ago, and while rereading the piece might not be a lesson in "I told you so," the companies' recent merger (subscription may be required) might be ...READ»

Letter From the Editor

Lessons of the FallREAD»