Article- "Hunting Disney" from the Economist.
This article is a very recent one, one week old, and making a clear opinion now, in such a early stage of the "not yet" confirmed merger, would not be very wise None the less, this article involves one of the companies that I don't usually like to regard as being involved in money and economical problems, but nowadays the fact is that entertainment is a very important economical factor.
And that company is Disney, probably the most successful entertainment company that nowadays doesn't seem to have been running well enough to keep with the shareholders" demands. Maybe because of these shareholders" dissatisfaction, these "winds of change", don't seem to be a bad idea.
On the other "merging side" we have Comcast, and as the article says, it's " the offspring of a consensual mating between a big cable and part of a big telephone company". Being the biggest cable-TV company in the US, it has launched a hostile bid for Disney that valued initially 66 billion $.
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Article Summary.
Comcast, America's biggest cable-TV company, just launched a week ago a bid for the Walt Disney Co. of about $66 billion, and it's not yet advisable to make any judgements, but the fact is that if the merger occurs, the Entertainment, Telephone and Cable industries will be mostly shaken.
It's clear as water that both companies aren't in very good managing conditions, and it seems as though with the merger things would just get worse, as poor managers would be fired, and big bosses would just get through with anything with their boards, because of money. .
Although it would bring problems it would also bring back the times of "hostile take overs", after a decade almost without any important mergers.
But things have been done to control these take overs that usually lead to corruption and fraud, and in fact it seems as though it has been done too much, so that the industries in which the regulations have been put, seem to be needing a regulation release.