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Mergers
the merge anarchy
Dec. 28, 2022
Horror Houses Blumhouse and Atomic Monster May Soon Merge M3gan , made by both production companies, is something of a test run.
By Bethy Squires
the top line
July 26, 2019
The T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Remedy Makes No Sense If the whole rationale behind the merger that a small fourth carrier can’t compete with the big guys, why create a new one?
By Josh Barro
the top line
June 12, 2019
Kudos to the States Suing to Block Sprint/T-Mobile Merger As the state attorneys general suing on antitrust grounds know, competition among four national cellular providers serves Americans well.
By Josh Barro
pentagon budget
June 10, 2019
Trump: U.S. Defense Spending Is Too High — But Must Not Be Cut The president shared his coherent, carefully considered thoughts on the Pentagon budget with CNBC Monday morning.
By Eric Levitz
Why the Sam Adams–Dogfish Head Deal Will Be a Win for Beer Lovers For one, it’s a giant middle finger to AB In-Bev and MillerCoors.
By Nikita Richardson
Court Approves AT&T’s Merger With Time Warner The decision is likely to spur a wave of other mergers throughout the (already heavily consolidated) media industry.
By Eric Levitz
Sprint and T-Mobile Announce Megamerger The two companies are betting that Trump administration regulators will be friendly to their ambitions.
By Benjamin Hart
grocery wars
Mar. 23, 2018
Is Kroger About to Merge With Target? Amazon fears may have two of America’s largest grocers aiming to join forces.
By Clint Rainey
consolidation
Dec. 3, 2017
CVS Finalizes $69 Billion Deal to Buy Aetna The merger, if approved, could dramatically reshape the health-care industry.
By Chas Danner
The Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on the Rule of Law Is Actually Good In blocking the AT&T–Time Warner merger, the Justice Department appears to be doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
By Eric Levitz
what a deal
Aug. 28, 2017
Go Get Whole Foods’ $2 Avocados While You Can! It’s falling hook, line, and sinker for their PR ploy, but might as well, right?
By Clint Rainey
grocery wars
Aug. 24, 2017
Amazon Prime Will Be Whole Foods’ Rewards Program Your $99 membership will grant you “special savings and other in-store benefits.”
By Clint Rainey
food delivery
Aug. 4, 2017
GrubHub Is Buying Yelp’s Food-Delivery Platform for $288 Million Yelp officially exits the delivery game, in another big food merger.
By Clint Rainey
The Boy Scouts Apologize for the President’s Conduct at Their Jamboree “We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program.”
By Eric Levitz
Here Are the People Who Could Stop the Whole Foods–Amazon Deal Shareholders have a class-action lawsuit, and a congressman wants to hold a hearing.
By Clint Rainey
White House Warns CNN That Critical Coverage Could Cost Time Warner Its Merger The Trump administration is now openly threatening to use the Justice Department as a tool for punishing critical speech.
By Eric Levitz
Trump-Friendly Company Buys Rights to Deliver Local News to 70 Percent of U.S. Last year, Sinclair reportedly made a deal with the Trump campaign, trading access for friendly coverage. Now, it’s poised to expand its reach.
By Eric Levitz
The Airline Industry Is a Starving Giant That’s Eating Our Economy United assaulting one of its passengers is a stark reminder of how desperately we need to reregulate the airline industry.
By Eric Levitz
AT&T to Purchase Time Warner in $85 Billion Megamerger The reported deal unites AT&T’s communications infrastructure with Time Warner’s film and television empire.
By Eric Levitz
news you can booze
Aug. 26, 2016
‘Thousands’ Will Lose Their Jobs Because of Anheuser-Busch The beer behemoth’s merger will create lots of redundancies — another reason to support independent breweries.
By Clint Rainey
Aetna to Feds: Give Us Our Merger or Obamacare Gets It The Obama administration rejected the merger anyway. Aetna exited Obamacare in 11 states this week.
By Eric Levitz
German Drug Company Offers $62 Billion for Monsanto to Merge This would create the world’s largest agricultural supplier.
By Clint Rainey
Tartine Bakery and Blue Bottle Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together The companies announced a merger in April, and now they’re parting ways.
By Sierra Tishgart
New You Can Booze
Nov. 11, 2015
One Third of Beers Sold Worldwide Will Come From This Megabrewer Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller have formalized their $106 billion merger.
By Clint Rainey
World’s Largest Brewer Wants to Merge With World’s Other Largest Anheuser-Busch InBev wants to merge with SABMiller to create the world’s largest brewing company with what will likely also be the world’s most complicated name.
By Chris Crowley
The Comcast–Time Warner Merger Is Dead The $45 billion deal has been dropped.
By Jessica Roy
The Chain Gang
Dec. 11, 2014
Burger King’s Canadian Tax Inversion Could Save It $1.2 Billion According to a new report from a corporate taxpayer watchdog group.
By Clint Rainey
Why Dollar Stores Are Having a Hard Time Making a Buck Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are merging, but things still aren’t looking good at the lower end of the retail economy.
By Annie Lowrey
Book Publishers Random House and Penguin to Merge In order to better handle the challenges caused by the rise of e-books.
By Jesse David Fox
Flower Foods Tosses Tasty Baking Co. a Much Needed Lifeline; Rare Disorder Plus: a study shows people think foods labeled organic taste better; and the rules of drinking may have changed, all in out morning news roundup.
AT&T Is Buying T-Mobile Do you hear my wireless monopoly now?
By Julie Gerstein
Salon.com Open to Merger “We’d like to think you don’t have to be a media conglomerate to succeed at doing high-quality journalism. The content economy we have today says you probably have to be.”
By Mike Vilensky
Tony Tony Tony
Nov. 18, 2009
Bourdain Has Reservations About New Boss Plus, how does Tony Tone feel about being labeled a “celebrity chef”?
By Daniel Maurer
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