Sony Corp., the world’s second- biggest consumer-electronics maker, said fiscal first-quarter profit surged… Operating profit in Sony’s electronics business was down 50 percent.…
i do tego: Merger mania has struck again… I have long felt that the acquisition and buy-up mania will someday result in the entire Earth being controlled by one corporate entity.
update: (via: Gen Kanai Weblog) „When two large companies join forces, they do this because they want to cut costs and must do so,” Schmidt-Holtz said. „These are costs which do not benefit the consumer and music. We will do this as well, because we have no other choice. It is also what we told the commission.”
Is that the only reason why 2 companies merge? – retorycznie pyta Gen.
update 2: chyba warto zacząć o tym pisać poważnie.
Finance: Bank Mergers Reduce Choices for Consumers pisze pani Linda Stern niezależna dziennikarka współpracująca z serwisem Reuters.
i cytuje: „Bigger banks means less choice for consumers,” said Edmund Mierzwinski of the US Public Interest Research Group, a Washington-based watchdog organization.
czy coś trzeba dodawać?