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US telco-media mega-merger: it snow joke
2018-03-23 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Bad weather on the eastern seaboard delayed the start of the antitrust trial over the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger, but as opening arguments eventually got underway this week one thing became immediately clear: to those involved and their major rivals, this is an incredibly serious business. The past 17 months since AT&T announced it had agreed to pay $85.4 billion for content giant Time Warner have seen the U.S. divide into two camps. On one side there are those that insist the merger will damage competition and lead to higher prices for consumers, since it brings together Time Warner's significant content assets with AT&…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Cannabis growers in marijuana mega-merger
2018-01-25 07:57:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The deal creates the world's most valuable pot producer, as Canada prepares to legalise the drug.
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RCom, Aircel finally ink Indian mega-merger
2016-09-15 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
50:50 joint venture will be country's third-largest mobile operator, generate INR200 billion in synergies.
Oil services mega-merger called off
2016-05-02 02:57:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US oil services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes abandon their proposed merger after resistance from regulators in the US and Europe.
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Dow, DuPont set $130 billion megamerger, could spark more deals
2015-12-12 09:19:19| Chemicals - Topix.net
Chemical titans DuPont and Dow Chemical Co have agreed to combine in an all-stock merger valued at $130 billion in a first step toward breaking up into three separate businesses, a move that pleased activist investors and could trigger more consolidation. The "deal of three centuries," as Wells Fargo analyst Frank Mitsch dubbed it, combines two of the biggest and oldest U.S. chemical producers and will generate cost and tax savings.