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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If the word merger conjures up only thoughts of deals to join corporate giants like Exxon and Mobil, conjure again. What headline writers call "merger madness" is also breaking out among relatively pint-size companies, which seal new relationships in the cafeteria and celebrate with interpersonal mingling that can involve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Companies Bulk Up | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Gittins spotted Anubis Solutions, an Alameda company that helps businesses manage and interpret electronic data on their customers. It had tripled revenues in each year of its 3 1/2 years of existence. "But there were some huge opportunities" to expand even more rapidly, says co-founder Adeeb Shana'a, "and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Companies Bulk Up | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Mocha's comments point to another difference between little mergers and the monster variety (besides the obvious one of size). Although the conglomerate craze is waning, most big-time mergers still aim at a degree of diversification. But small firms almost always combine with others in the same industry. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Companies Bulk Up | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Another difference: giant mergers often aim at reducing costs by consolidating operations, and this almost invariably involves large layoffs. But the non-titans usually want to expand where they overlap. As with Personify and Anubis, "a lot of times a company will buy another company just because it means acquiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Companies Bulk Up | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

So far, Hawass's team has explored four tombs, with a total of 105 mummies laid on top of one another in neat stacks. All told, the remains were interred in four distinct ways. One type was covered with a thin layer of gold. Another lay under lifelike masks made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Valley Of The Lost Tombs | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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