What was the worst corporate merger in history?

[bolido2000]

3DFX/STB

BMW/Land Rover (take over)

 

[MeanMeosh]

MeanMeosh-ATOT

sigh... must get to sleep!

 

[PlatinumGold]

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Originally posted by: Ime
AOL-Time Warner
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either that or IBM - Lotus

 

[dakata24]

lucent and ... uh. n/m. they just suck.

 

[Aceshigh]

Nortel & Alteon.

I was long in Alteon and they had a great management team and good stock performance. Nortel swallowed them up and it's been downhill from there.

 

[HamSupLo]

excite @home

 

[GroundedSailor]

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
Bush and the white house.

lol :Q

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
Bush and the white house.

Coughed up my hot chocolate through my nose at that one. Caught me off guard

Ouch! :Q

 

[tm37]

Originally posted by: Mizer

Originally posted by: tm37

Originally posted by: Ime
AOL-Time Warner

It was great for aol and horrible for timewarner.

Any time ted turner gets screwed I am happy. Even if AOL is the one who does it

This merger affected a lot of people's retirement funds not just Ted Turner and now the stocks are in a big black hole.

I know first hand.

Id you have the majority of your retirement in one stock you have a bad finavial planner

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: jooksing
excite @home

Bingo. Don't forget they also purchased bluemountain.com..

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

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Originally posted by: Ime
AOL-Time Warner
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either that or IBM - Lotus

Strongly disagree. Bad for Microsoft maybe. And, Maybe not the best merger, but, it's certainly had positive results for both companies. Lotus getting into the big fortune 100 companies, and IBM boosting it's IGS division. Now, the IBM - PWC really bothers me. I'm guessing that's going to turn out pretty bad, but, I hope not.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Ime

Originally posted by: Carbonyl
Bush and the white house.

HA! I win!

I bet my wife someone would say something political by the 5th post! Thanks!

If your married , then by now, at your age, you should understand everything we do, how people see us, the jobs we have, the promotions we get, and even the wife we have is politics

Skull and crossbones is a killer frat I hear.

 

[CPA]

I would have to second the Mattel/Learning Company fiasco. It's been one big money pit since that happened.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Billy Bob and Angelina

 

[Pocatello]

my vote for AOL-Time Warner