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		<title><![CDATA[TUI Travel Confident on 2010 Expectations]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt ScuffhamLONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Europe's biggest tour operator TUI Travel Plc TT is confident of meeting its expectations for 2010 as trading for the summer season remains encouraging and winter bookings improve.TUI Travel, formed in 2007 through a tie-up between TUI AG's TUIGn travel division and First Choice,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:45:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EC grants Oracle extra week for USD7.4bn merger]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The European Commission EC is granting Oracle a one-week extension to its deadline for the approval of its proposed USD7.4bn merger with Sun Microsystems. The deadline is now January 27. Oracle requested the extension because of the disruption caused by Thanksgiving to business schedules.     ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:42:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[T-Mobile and Orange merger could face concessions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mobile operators T-Mobile and Orange may be asked to make concessions to competition regulators in order to get approval for their UK merger. Ed Richards, CEO of UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom, says regulators are likely to ask the mobile operators to relinquish radio spectrum. Regulators may also scrutinise how...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cadbury Prefers Merger With Hershey]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Cadbury Plc CBRY would prefer a merger with U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co HSY rather than Kraft Foods Inc KFT, the British company's chairman Roger Carr told the Sunday Telegraph.However, he said both U.S. groups would fail if they cannot finance generous bids, the paper reported.Hershey...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:00:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cadbury Prefers Merger With Hershey Over Kraft: Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Cadbury Plc CBRY would prefer a merger with U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co HSY rather than Kraft Foods Inc KFT, the British company's chairman Roger Carr told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.However, he said both U.S. groups would fail if they cannot finance generous bids, the paper reported.Hershey...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:45:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merger Talk Makes Waves in Hershey Town]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jon HurdleHERSHEY, Penn. (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - In a company town where the street lamps are shaped like chocolate Kisses and orphans are cared for with corporate largesse, the prospect that America's biggest chocolate maker may merge with a foreign entity has unnerved some people.Disclosure that the Hershey Co HSY...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:46:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amid Merger, Game Ad Firm NeoEdge Gets EA Vet Mansford As New CEO]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ NeoEdge, the casual and online game advertising platform, is getting into the game development business. The company has merged with Offspring, a startup founded by a team of four EA vets, and will start creating casual and social games, as well as the ad platforms to support them. Offspring...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Credit Unions, Building Socs Eye Mergers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Australia's credit unions and building societies have come through the global financial crisis in good shape and are looking to merge to provide economies of scale and repel competition from the major banks.But mutual depository institutions need to be choosy about potential merger partners because part of their attraction...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BofA Knew of Merrill Pain in November: House Panel]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachelle Younglai and Kim DixonWASHINGTON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - A congressional panel accused Bank of America Corp BAC on Tuesday of knowing about Merrill Lynch's huge losses as early as November 2008, suggesting the bank misled investors in saying it did not grasp the depth of the problems until the following...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[As Tax Breaks for Pfizer End, Jobs Disappear]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Pfizer PFE reorganizes after its merger with Wyeth, municipalities are finding that the tax deals they once struck to keep the drug giant in town are having short-term advantages at best and, at worst, no effect at all. Pfizer must make 19,500 layoffs across its empire to make the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hospital Mergers Are A Major Health Cost Driver]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospital mergers have been a major driver of runaway health spending over the past decade. But while the FTC and the Department of Justice are reconsidering their antitrust guidelines, it's unlikely they will be able to restrain further consolidation of hospitals. by Ken Terry]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merck Legally Changed Its Name 3 Times to Achieve Reverse Merger With Schering]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merck MRK shareholders are grumbling that they're being charged $20 for new Merck shares that are identical to the old ones in the merger with Schering-Plough. That's because Merck's lawyers legally changed the names of the companies three times in order to engineer their "reverse merger." by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:20:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Viasystems Gains Defense Work By Merging With Merix]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The privately held company Viasystems announced that they had made a deal to merge with Merix this month.  Both of the companies make printed circuit boards for a variety of applications.  Viasystems is currently privately held but after the merger the new company will be public.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:08:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo & Company Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Earnings Call ExcerptWells Fargo & Company WFC Q3 2009 Earnings Call  October 21, 2009 8:30 am ET Executives Bob Strickland &#8211; Director of Investor Relations Howard I. Atkins &#8211; Chief Financial Officer & Senior Executive Vice President Presentation  Bob Strickland  Hello, this is Bob Strickland. Thank...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:05:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reality Check: How Wall Street Sees Korn/Ferry]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research analyst Mark Marcon evaluates Korn/Ferry under Gary Burnison?s leadership.   Is the Whitehead Mann Acquisition Likely to Succeed?    I think [CEO Gary] Burnison&#8217;s sense is even if the  worst isn&#8217;t completely over, the worst of the worst has probably  passed and the longer-term...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report: DOJ Will Ask Live Nation, Ticketmaster For Major Concessions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The UK Competition Commission has already ruled provisionally that the proposed merger of Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) and Ticketmaster would hurt competition. Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting, shock of shocks, that the U.S. Department of Justice isn&#8217;t thrilled either. Unidentified sources tell the Journal that DOJ wants...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:46:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why IPG Should Not Merge Deutsch and Lowe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management at Deutsch should resist with every fiber of their beings a proposed merger of their agency with Lowe. Both are Interpublic shops. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:46:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UK Antitrust Body Warns Against Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The proposed merger of Ticketmaster and concert promoter Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) would hurt competition in the live ticket market in the UK and lead to high prices for fans, according to the country&#8217;s Competition Commission.In a provisional ruling  its views will be updated in a final report,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:50:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UK watchdog rules against ticketing merger]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The controversial merger deal struck by Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation suffered a further setback on Thursday after UK antitrust authorities poured cold water on their plans to create a live music powerhouse.In a provisional ruling, the Competition Commission said the tie-up between the top US ticket seller and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:00:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merix Corporation F1Q10 (Qtr End 08/29/09) Earnings and Merger Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session  Operator  Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Matthew Sheerin &#8211; Thomas Weisel Partners.  Matthew Sheerin &#8211; Thomas Weisel Partners Could you expand or elaborate on the suggested cost savings? You talked about $20 million in synergies. How do you plan...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:58:08 -0700</pubDate>
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