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DolPhanTendo on 19 May 2014

This spells doom for consumers. Looks like I'm going Dish Network. And this buyout is only good for getting out of contracts without paying the fee. During the Reagan years (my age 3 to 11) there were damn near 30 different T.V./cable media outlets. Then came Bush Sr. Talking NWO mergers slowly started happening and during the Clinton years until present day mergers digusttingly got more and more. Big Corporations and Big Government go jand and hand, I hate it.



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RenCutypoison on 19 May 2014
VanceIX said:
BasilZero said:
Wow, what is up with all these buy outs/mergers this year.

Comcast buys out Time Warner

Google/YouTube buys Twitch

and now THIS :O

This and the Time Warner aquisition almost certainly should have been broken up by the government. There's almost no major competitors left.

But the government forcing companies in a direction is Un-American =O



BlkPaladin on 19 May 2014
RenCutypoison said:
VanceIX said:
BasilZero said:
Wow, what is up with all these buy outs/mergers this year.

Comcast buys out Time Warner

Google/YouTube buys Twitch

and now THIS :O

This and the Time Warner aquisition almost certainly should have been broken up by the government. There's almost no major competitors left.

But the government forcing companies in a direction is Un-American =O

They do it all the time. I believe they should be lessiez-fair with business because most times the government gets involved they make the matter worse.



Adameh on 19 May 2014

I'm glad we have a thing called Freeview HD



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rolltide101x on 19 May 2014
VanceIX said:
BasilZero said:
Wow, what is up with all these buy outs/mergers this year.

Comcast buys out Time Warner

Google/YouTube buys Twitch

and now THIS :O

This and the Time Warner aquisition almost certainly should have been broken up by the government. There's almost no major competitors left.

The Governement really should not get involved. AT&T/Dish Network/and literally ton of cable companies are enough



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RenCutypoison on 19 May 2014
BlkPaladin said:
RenCutypoison said:

But the government forcing companies in a direction is Un-American =O

They do it all the time. I believe they should be lessiez-fair with business because most times the government gets involved they make the matter worse.


Planned economy only works in orderly countries =p



SamuelRSmith on 19 May 2014

More astonishing is Pfizer's offer to buy AstraZeneca... for $119bn.

That's like the GDP of Kansas, or Vietnam



MoHasanie on 19 May 2014
SamuelRSmith said:
More astonishing is Pfizer's offer to buy AstraZeneca... for $119bn.

That's like the GDP of Kansas, or Vietnam

It was rejected today  with little hope of Pfizer bidding again :( . It would have made the largest pharma company in the world. The HQ would have been in New York, but the company would be based in the UK because the corportate tax there is a lot lower. 



    

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rolltide101x on 19 May 2014
MoHasanie said:
SamuelRSmith said:
More astonishing is Pfizer's offer to buy AstraZeneca... for $119bn.

That's like the GDP of Kansas, or Vietnam

It was rejected today  with little hope of Pfizer bidding again :( . It would have made the largest pharma company in the world. The HQ would have been in New York, but the company would be based in the UK because the corportate tax there is a lot lower. 

Larger pharmaceutical companies is the LAST thing we need. They are the greediest most selfish business sector there is



SamuelRSmith on 19 May 2014
rolltide101x said:

Larger pharmaceutical companies is the LAST thing we need. They are the greediest most selfish business sector there is


Pharmas aren't the most selfish out there... I mean, at least they profit from treating people. Can't really say the same thing about BAE Systems or Lockheed Martin.