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Hardly a day goes by without hearing somebody’s opinion on whether we’re headed for a double-dip recession. Last week, it was Fed Chief Ben Bernake saying he would do whatever he could to avoid the double dip, which as this NPR story shows is being viewed as an increasing possibility. And this morning, there’s a [...]
CenturyLink (CTL) got some attention last week for an 8-K it filed, reporting that shareholders of CenturyLink and Qwest Communications International, Inc. (Q) overwhelmingly approved a merger proposal. But the company also filed a second 8-K, which received no real attention, even though it involves more than $10.2 million of shareholders’ money. That filing disclosed that CenturyLink (formerly [...]
Was it really only the beginning of last week that Dell (DELL) announced plans to buy 3Par (PAR)? My how time flies! Since then, it’s been hard to keep up with the near hourly updates on the tussle between two computer giants — Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) over a company that up until recently judging [...]
Yesterday saw news of another big merger: the tie up between Intel (INTC) and McAfee (MFE). Between the news release and the conference call and various other merger documents, we counted 13 different filings yesterday. And that’s just McAfee’s filings. Intel had another four. Clearly, that makes for some very busy attorneys. But one filing [...]
It’s not often the head of a $3 billion company walks away with more than $130 million. But that’s what it looks like Omnicare (OCR) Chief Executive Joel Gemunder could do, with his abrupt retirement and replacement by Omnicare director Denny Shelton, the ex-CEO of Triad Hospitals. To us, it doesn’t sound much like the long-planned [...]
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