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...change most everyone agrees on is the impending merger of the Fletcher and Maynard schools. After scrapping a controversial plan two years ago for the Maynard School to merge with the Cambridgeport School, Fletcher volunteered to merge instead...
They are currently deciding which building will house the combined school. The school committee will vote on the merger's specifics mid-month...
...World Economic Forum in Switzerland Monday morning, Bill Gates and Steve Case, America's two most powerful technocrats, had the ears of the world's economic policy makers. While Case took the time - again - to sing the praises of his merger with Time Warner (parent company of Time Daily) and the synergies it will allow, Gates touted the virtues of the one-product company. Pressed on rumors of a Microsoft merger with media content firms such as Viacom, Gates said Microsoft will stick to software design. Industry analysts see the announcement as a preemptive strike against Microsoft's possible breakup...
...difference, though, between avoiding unnecessary mention of competitors and straight-out eliminating their presence. CBS and NBC may be viewed as natural competitors, but in this era of media conglomerates, just about every advertisement indicates a potential friend or foe. CNN's parent company, Time Warner, after the AOL merger now controls an immense number of brands, each of which has several competitors whose logos the network could choose to suppress. Will Microsoft now vanish from CNN, and Pixar from Disney/ABC...
...have the information you need to judge my credibility, and we can turn to my analysis of the AOL-Time Warner merger. Or we could if there were room...