Southwest Airlines, one of the earliest discount airlines, will buy rival AirTran — another sign of consolidation in an industry that has witnessed the mergers of Northwest with Delta and United with Continental over the last …
The FTC has cleared a BHP Billiton bid for Potash Corp., but that hardly matters. Authorities in the fertilizer company’s home country of Canada may not approve the transaction. And it looks like BHP won’t be the only bidder. T…
Don’t kid yourself. Real privacy no longer exists in this country. From your hobbies to your income to your phone calls, pretty much everything about you is tracked by someone, somewhere. We’ve examined the most intrusive firms…
Avis Budget has increased its offer for Dollar Thrifty, firing the latest salvo in its bidding war for Dollar with archrival Hertz. It’s a familiar pattern in the world of mergers and acquisitions, and the data shows that inter…
Giant U.S. pharmaceutical group Abbott Laboratories is cutting 3,000 jobs, or about 3% of its workforce, following its purchase of Belgian-based Solvay’s drugs business.
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