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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
