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...twofold. First, there's the so-called horizontal impact, which refers to when a company buys out a rival to eliminate competition. In this case, the merger will stop Live Nation's recently launched ticketing company from cutting in on Ticketmaster's turf. Live Nation dumped its ticketing contract with Ticketmaster in January after signing a 10-year contract to license ticketing software from Europe's CTS Eventim to run its own ticketing business. The move took a toll on Ticketmaster, which saw its profits dive 78% in the first quarter, partly due to the lost Live Nation business...
...chair," said Randy Phillips, CEO of AEG Live, the country's second largest concert promoter. "I could not believe it. I mean, these are sophisticated businessmen - my God, a computer glitch?" Not surprisingly, Phillips opposes the merger and has even suggested he may cancel his seven-year contract with Ticketmaster if the deal goes through...
...always exists that researchers' objectivity may be tainted by their backers' agenda. But Ackerman insists this is not a concern with his and Kanfer's work. The data from the study, he says, remained the property of Georgia Tech, not the College Board, and the two groups signed a contract in advance in which the school retained the rights to publish the results no matter what...
...done it so successfully that he may have inspired a minor ventriloquism renaissance. Terry Fator, a singing ventriloquist who won America's Got Talent in 2007, now has a 10-year contract at the Mirage in Vegas. "Jeff was a huge inspiration to me," he says. "But I'm competitive now. I've got a DVD coming out too." And at least one dummy manufacturer says business...
...largest union. “Our experience is that both of those impressions are blatantly wrong.” He added that schools and departments around the University have only begun requesting meetings with the union this past week. Under the union’s negotiated contract, Harvard is required to notify and consult with the union before conducting any layoffs in order to allow the union to propose alternatives to job cuts, Jaeger said. Similarly, University spokesman Kevin Galvin said that while Harvard will likely “have to make further changes to the size of its workforce?...