| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
BusinessWeek
February 21, 2005
David Henry |
Have Dealmakers Wised Up? Acquiring companies seem to be taking a closer look -- and paying less.   |
BusinessWeek
December 25, 2006
Joseph Weber |
M&A: An Irresistible Urge To Merge The dealmakers will be working double time in '07, and in virtually every sector. |
InternetNews
June 30, 2009
Don Reisinger |
What Apple Does Right What are Steve Jobs and company doing to maintain one of the best customer satisfaction ratings in the business? |
InternetNews
March 29, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
MCI Chooses Verizon, Spurns Qwest MCI accepts Verizon's merger offer after the Baby Bell raises its bid by $1 billion, to $7.6 billion. |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005
Coy & Thornton |
Shake, Rattle, And Merge Companies with cash. Investors who welcome bold offers. A weak dollar. It looks like a year of big M & A deals. |
Home Theater
June 4, 2007 |
Consumers to Cable: You Stink Cable and satellite television companies have scored the lowest of any sector of industry in the latest American Consumer Satisfaction Index. |
InternetNews
June 15, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Deephaven Wants to Deep-Six MCI-Verizon Qwest has said it's time to move on after MCI accepted a lower takeover offer from Verizon, but Deephaven Capital isn't ready to give up. |
InternetNews
May 2, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Qwest Bids Bitter GoodBye to MCI Pursuit Qwest has harsh words for MCI and winning bidder Verizon as it drops its three-month pursuit. |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
David Henry |
M&A Deals: Show Me Aware that many mergers haven't paid off in the past, investors don't have the enthusiasm they once did. |
CIO
April 1, 2004
Alice Dragoon |
Banks Fight Customer Fligtht Following mergers, banks used to sacrifice customer service in favor of speedy integration and cost-cutting. But no more. Here's how CIOs are helping banks implement a new postmerger mandate to focus on customer service. |
InternetNews
October 6, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
MCI Shareholders OK Verizon Merger MCI shareholders today voted to accept Verizon's $8.4 billion takeover offer, moving one step closer to completing telecom's latest mega-merger. |
InternetNews
September 1, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
MCI-Verizon Merger Vote Set MCI shareholders will weigh in on Verizon's acquisition offer next month. |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
Yang et al. |
The Shifting Telecom Landscape With AT&T and MCI going, the Bells will compete with cable and tech companies. |
Financial Advisor
February 2006
Alan Lavine |
Alive And Well The ongoing merger boom keeps feeding the risk arbitrageurs' bottom line. Financial advisors have a number of options if they want to invest clients' cash in mutual funds that could benefit from merger deals. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004 |
The Problems HP Faces During her five years as CEO, Fiorina has taken dramatic steps to remake Hewlett-Packard, including a 2002 deal to acquire Compaq. While the merger went smoothly, it didn't solve too many of HP's strategic challenges. |
BusinessWeek
November 7, 2005
Ante & Crockett |
Rewired And Ready For Combat SBC and Verizon are spending billions to stay competitive in the broadband era. |
InternetNews
February 12, 2004
Colin Haley |
Comcast: New Technologies Can Spur Disney Deal Comcast execs say streaming media, video-on-demand and personal video recording services will maximize Disney's content; growth markets are online too. |
InternetNews
May 27, 2004
Craig McGuire |
Comcast Sets VoIP Deadline Digital cable buildout paving way for VoIP rollout. |
CFO
February 1, 2005
Kris Frieswick |
Fool's Gold These deals might indeed make their synergy numbers. Then again, they might not. A recent McKinsey & Co. study finds that 70 percent of mergers fall short when it comes to achieving their targets for revenue synergies, while 40 percent lead to cost-synergy disappointments |
InternetNews
January 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
Verizon Completes MCI Takeover Verizon completed its $8.4 billion purchase of MCI today, creating the nation's second largest telecom carrier behind the new AT&T, which itself is a newly formed merger between the former long distance carrier and SBC. |
InternetNews
August 24, 2004
Michael Singer |
E-Business, PCs Really Satisfy: Report Apple's shine not limited to just the iPod... Google gets high marks in a new consumer satisfaction report... |
InternetNews
April 29, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Verizon Quiet Ahead of MCI Deadline The carrier has until midnight to try and displace Qwest as MCI's merger partner. |
U.S. Banker
August 2006
John Engen |
Southern Exposure Wachovia's Ken Thompson's appetite for deals has raised eyebrows with investors and analysts. Yet proponents say Thompson's ambition, coupled with strong organizational skills, is sure to keep customers and investors satisfied. |
Bank Technology News
November 2003
Jeremy Quittner |
Finding Equals in a Merger Jean Davis's responsibility is to integrate all of Wachovia's systems, technologies and operations since its 2001 merger with First Union. It wasn't a cake walk, but the new entity is beginning to hum. |
BusinessWeek
December 12, 2005
Emily Thornton |
Fat Merger Payouts For CEOs Top executives at companies being acquired are reaping windfalls. Whose interest is being served? |
CRM
November 2014
Leonard Klie |
Customer Satisfaction Plunges Again American Customer Satisfaction Index sees one of its biggest drops in 20 years. |
BusinessWeek
February 9, 2004 |
Figuring Out If Banks Fit Together A talk with fund manager David Ellison about how he assesses the prospects of bank mergers working out |
InternetNews
August 16, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo, Google Tops in Satisfaction Study Users like what they find on Google and Yahoo and are increasingly pleased with AOL, a new study finds. |
PHONE+
May 20, 2009 |
Telco Customers Not Satisfied Even the U.S. Postal Service ranked higher in customer satisfaction than the telecom industry, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Mergers and Acquiescence Are investors better off holding or selling their stocks that are getting acquired? |
CRM
August 1, 2006
Marshall Lager |
Money Changes Everything By switching from a homebrew system to Callidus TrueComp, Wachovia saved $7.5 million annually by eliminating compensation errors, increased loan production 450%, raised customer satisfaction scores and improved Sarb-Ox compliance. |
CFO
January 1, 2004
Roy Harris |
The Start of Something Big? A blockbuster fourth quarter gives even pessimists hope that M&A activity has finally turned the corner. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Rich Miller |
Commentary: Business Burns Rubber Finally, execs are ramping up capital spending and M&A deals. Will jobs be next? |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005 |
Here Comes The Year Of The Deal Fallout from a new M&A boom could turn out to be a major unanticipated policy issue in 2005. Rapid consolidation could increase pricing power in many industries. It's the right time for the U.S. government's trustbusters to stay alert. |
CFO
January 1, 2002
Stephen Barr |
Deals: They've Come Undone With buying activity sharply down, merger breakups made the biggest headlines last year. |
PC Magazine
April 27, 2011
Ben Gottesman |
Readers' Choice Awards 2011: Desktops and Laptops Our yearly survey reveals just who PCMag readers love -- and who they don't -- in the world of desktops and laptops. |
U.S. Banker
April 2004
Michael Dumiak |
Culture Clash Nearly a decade after the last merger wave, dealers sharpen their pencils in the wake of an economic downturn and look to make combinations. Is that really such a good idea? |
PC Magazine
December 8, 2004 |
Readers' Choices; 17th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey--Part 2 Internet Service Providers... Premium Content Providers... Satisfaction and Reliability reports on your favorite hardware... |
CFO
July 1, 2005
Roy Harris |
Soft in the Middle While blockbuster mergers and acquisitions abound, the next tier of deals shrinks a bit. That could be a good thing. |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Avital Louria Hahn |
Worlds Apart To foster successful cross-border mergers, try cultural due diligence. |
InternetNews
February 18, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Analysts Skeptical of Qwest Claim Experts aren't convinced a Qwest-MCI merger would clear government review before a Verizon-MCI combination. |
PHONE+
June 19, 2009
Khali Henderson |
Optimum Business, Verizon Top J.D. Power Poll The study measures customer satisfaction with providers of telecommunications data services, such as cable modem, DSL, T1, T3/DS3, Ethernet and frame relay. |
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2011
Brendan Greeley |
What's Good for AT&T Is Good for America AT&T It says getting T-Mobile will let it expand 4G infrastructure. We'll see. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2004
Lowry et al. |
Mega Media Mergers: How Dangerous? If Comcast wins Disney, a few behemoths will dominate news, entertainment, and distribution |
CFO
March 1, 2004
Kris Frieswick |
The Two Faces of Bank Mergers Despite all the talk about the "seamlessness" of the mergers being planned in the nation's fast-consolidating banking industry, CFOs of bank customers aren't all that convinced. And their concerns are both financial and personal: Will the merger of their bank hurt their access to capital, they ask? And how will their relationship with bank officers change? |
InternetNews
March 22, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Qwest Blasts MCI Over Disconnected Talks CEO Richard Notebaert has harsh words for MCI's board and even harsher ones for rival bidder Verizon. |
PC World
June 20, 2007
Jeff Bertolucci |
The Best and Worst ISPs Companies that provide the best and worst service. |
InternetNews
May 2, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
MCI Returns to Verizon After a brief flirtation with Qwest, MCI's board endorses Verizon's new $8.4B takeover bid. |
BusinessWeek
December 4, 2006
Emily Thornton |
What's Behind The Buyout Binge With stocks cheap and private equity firms flush, this boom may be a record-breaker. |
InternetNews
June 17, 2005
Roy Mark |
Consumer Groups Rally Against Telecom Mergers Consumer groups say the proposed deals between Verizon-MCI and SBC-AT&T will work against a competitive market. |
