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List of company name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some origins are disputed. •20th Century Fox – Film studio; formed in 1935 through the merger of William Fox's Fox Film, and T...
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Mergers and acquisitions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The phrase mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A ) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different comp...
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The most common option in naming a newly merged corporation is to choose one of the two names of the merged companies. The name chosen is almost without exception the name of the acquiring company. BP was adopted when it merged with Amoco.
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The merged companies will now be called Cantata Technologies, said Peter Vescuso, vice president of marketing. The new name was announced yesterday at the VON Conference & Expo in San Jose, Calif., the leading conference for the Internet communications industry.
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Liberal media watchdogs howled, but the story seemed a minor kerfuffle until John Aravosis at Americablog.com dropped the real bomb: Talon News reporter Gannon (real name: James Guckert) had previously run a Web-based escort service, with nude pictures of himself prominently featured.
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Those assumptions can lead to critical errors for U.S. companies trying to get a foothold in the Indian market. "The biggest mistake is thinking there is a single India," says Mumbai-based Rama Bijapurkar, one of India's leading business-strategy consultants and author of the new book Winning in the Indian Market.
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