Dating app Tinder is acquiring Humin the San Francisco startup which took a high-wire approach to contact management, trying to merge lots of disparate information into one contact app.
Whatever Mr. Sidgmore does, he is likely to opt for a plan that is more formal than the one his predecessor, Mr. Ebbers, instituted when WorldCom's top management was expecting to merge with Sprint and continue growing.
Canadian firms Seprotech Systems Inc, a provider of engineered water and wastewater treatment systems, and WESA Group Inc, a services company that focuses on environmental earth sciences, water resources and waste management, are planning to merge their operations.
In Denmark, for its part, a recent trend has been to merge management functions and/or create matrix organisations by merging departments from several hospitals into functional units with joint responsibilities for particular treatment areas.
Although the shares of most of the region's energy companies are listed, shareholder voting limits (5% per shareholder at MOL and 10% at PKN) and politicised managements have derailed attempts to merge.
Drawn up over the past year as an explicit response to the drastic cuts in town hall budgets, the so-called "tri-borough" plan aims to merge the management and back-office teams (and some frontline services) of three Conservative-run inner London councils: Hammersmith and Fulham (where Christie has been director of children's services since 2006), Westminster, and Kensington and Chelsea.
Union officials said that the mayor and comptroller would announce a proposal to merge the management of the five plans so that they would have one unified board, with about a dozen directors, overseeing the $120 billion in investments, instead of the current five boards with 58 directors.
The council's executive board also agreed to merge the management of the local authority and primary care trust.
Sun brought in new management, freshened up stores and plans to merge it with another Midwest retailer, Pamida.
South Northamptonshire and Cherwell District Councils have agreed to merge their senior management teams.
