"While it may appear that there has been a spike in merger enforcement because this is the commission's second prohibition in less than a year, Mr. Almunia's merger record is not out of line with previous commissioners," he said.
SunTrust has been slamming First Union's merger record.
The nation's top oil executives were called before Congress again yesterday to defend their industry's recent mergers and record profits, in the face of public outrage over high oil and gasoline prices.
As a result of the merger, A.B.A. statistics, records and championships are acknowledged, if not officially recognized, by the N.B.A.
With artists like Alicia Keys, J became successful enough that BMG lured Mr. Davis back in 2002 to become chairman and chief executive of RCA Music Group, which was created in the merger of RCA Records with J.
People involved in the talks said the companies were classifying the deal as a merger to avoid recording large good-will charges, which can drag down net income.
European regulators yesterday approved a merger of the recorded-music units of the Sony Corporation and Bertelsmann, removing the biggest obstacle to the creation of a global music power with a joint artist roster that would include names like Bruce Springsteen and Outkast.
Instead, complex bank mergers, digitized health records and cloud computing are combining to make data warehousing and data integration a practically crash-proof business.
An article on Feb. 6 about implications of recent mergers in the recording industry included an Internet company erroneously among those being sued by recording companies over the creation of online archives.
Correction: February 13 , 2000 Sunday An article on Feb. 6 about implications of recent mergers in the recording industry included an Internet company erroneously among those being sued by recording companies over the creation of online archives.
