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...Japanese restaurant in Beijing jabbing at his sushi and coolly dissecting the fate of the industry. "Some will get bought, some will go broke," he predicts. "It will all be happening in the next nine months." A former venture capitalist, Mao engineered Sina's creation by arranging a merger between a U.S. Internet start-up and a Chinese software company. Soon he may preside over its resale. Mao contemplates the latest street buzz: AOL is rumored to be trying to acquire community portal Netease, while Microsoft is said to be eyeing Sina. Across town, Charles Zhang, the founder of rival...
...recent merger between Harvard and Radcliffe is an example of an ideal task for a provost, and, some say, were it not for Fineberg, the merger would not have happened...
sixth overall since the school was formed by a merger in 1977, continuing a proud basketball tradition begun by Patrick Ewing, who led CRLS to its first three state championships from 1979-81. Rumeal Robinson, Ford's half-brother, continued the tradition with a state title of his own in 1986, followed by another title with Omo Moses four years later...
...American merger has politics on its side. Though there are a few routes, mainly to the Caribbean, where the two airlines essentially share the market, now that Judge Walsh has tossed out the competing bids and blessed the acquisition, the only alternative is liquidation - which would wreak economic havoc on the employees at TWA's bustling St. Louis...
...Like all mergers, this one will present its own cultural challenges. Roger Emmott, an analyst with consulting group Beddows & Co. in London, suggests looking at Corus, which recently announced 6,000 layoffs in South Wales: "A lot of its problems come from language and cultural differences." That's something the new bosses have already begun to address. After the press conference announcing the merger, they split reporters into three language groups-none of them English...