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AOL

A business cannot be anaesthetised, so in cases of corporate gangrene it is best to cut quickly and decisively

ITV

The appointment of Archie Norman is a coup for a broadcaster that had seemed stuck in a never-ending governance crisis

Vivendi / GVT

The knockout bid is all the more reason for Vivendi to get a full price for NBCU, a necessary move to win a bidding war with rival Telefónica

Canon / Océ

Canon made much of its fortune from copiers – now it hopes to profit from copying

Liberty Global / Unitymedia

The US cable magnate John Malone has picked up a bargain of sorts in Unitymedia, Germany’s second-biggest cable company

BT

Chief executive Ian Livingston has steered BT, the UK’s
former telephone monopoly, in the right direction

Hewlett-Packard

Acquisitive behaviour in the tech sector is being revitalised as rivals try to outdo each other

Reed Elsevier

Ian Smith was never the right man for the top job at the Anglo-Dutch publisher

Vodafone

The chief executive’s promise to deliver savings a full year ahead of schedule reflects the pressures that are bearing down

Sun / Oracle

The joys of open-source software aside, it is hard to see why MySQL should be any reason to block a deal between the two groups

Skype

Lenovo

Telefónica / GVT

Intel

Media recovery

ITV / Friends Reunited

ChiNext

Sprint

Nintendo

SAP

Verizon

Location, location

Mobile chip mystery

Microsoft

Ericsson