Mergers and acquisitions that would never happen today

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• Obā-san

  2015-01-13 01:44:55

  
  

  murders and executions
• Tre

  2015-01-13 01:45:46

  
  

  AOL Time Warner?
• Anonus

  2015-01-13 01:45:54

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  (Westinghouse was already a broadcaster, but to most Americans that was probably very ???)
• Tachyon

  2015-01-13 01:46:08

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Penguin Books buying Frito-Lay
  
  Team Shanghai Alice buying Disney
  
• Tachyon

  2015-01-13 01:49:51

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Ryan Reynolds buying Tabasco (the state)
  
• Anonus

  2015-01-13 01:50:06

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Those things never happened

  
  

  Also no AOL Time Warner would never happen today

  
  

  Ironic how "media convergence" was a buzzword in the infancy of the Internet's time as a mass medium

  
  

  Now it's actually happening, and you never hear media suits talking about it now
• Tachyon

  2015-01-13 01:50:41

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  They have never happened before, and they wouldn't happen today, either.
  
• lee4hmz

  2015-01-13 01:52:35

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Beatrice/Esmark/Norton Simon

  
  

  These days, they probably would have all been bough by different PE groups.