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...INDICATORS Merger 2.0 A U.S. judge ruled that softwaremaker Oracle can proceed with its hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft, rejecting U.S. antitrust authorities' bid to block a deal. E.U. officials are still studying the proposed takeover...
NEELIE KROES, incoming E.U. antitrust czar, defending the honorary degree Nyenrode University gave Bill Gates in 1996, when she was its head. Brussels is currently fighting an antitrust case with Microsoft
...Sound Decision? E.U. antitrust regulators seem ready to approve the merger of Japan 's Sony Music with German label BMG, forming the world's biggest recorded-music firm...
Another pillar of Reagan's approach was to get government out of the way of growing businesses. Deregulation had started tentatively under Carter with the airlines, but Reagan applied it broadly, to energy and broadcasting and butressed it with a dismantling of antitrust laws. Reagan was a staunch free-trader and did little to stop the onslaught against sluggish American corporations from aggressive Japanese manufacturers. Reagan's term coincided with the height of Japan's economic boom, and his instinct was that in the long run, it would be better to let most companies fend for themselves...
Under pressure from foreign competition, and with the antitrust lawyers looking the other way, Wall Street tumbled into a fever of mergers, leveraged buyouts, massive restructurings and corporate raids. It was painful, it was chaotic, it hurt a lot of workers, both blue and white collar. But in the end it seems to have produced a more competitive economy, with companies more nimble, more responsive to customers and more innovative, even if their workers felt less secure or loyal. The 1980s shakeout helped prime the economy for its leap into the high-productivity, technology-fueled boom of the next decade...