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Google has announced they will no longer go ahead with the advertising partnership with Yahoo that they were negotiating on.

The discussions started this June, after Microsoft had announced they do not want to buy Yahoo anymore.

As consequence, Yahoo went to Google with the proposal of an advertising partnership, which meant that Yahoo would be displaying Google’s ads. Read More…

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Fernando Alonso

Fernando Alonso, the Spanish Formula 1 pilot, has announced that he has decided to renew his contract with Renault for the next two seasons.

Flavio Briatore, the owner of the French company, has declared that Alonso will compete for Renault two years more, but his contract does allow the pilot to change his mind at the end of this year. Read More…

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Alitalia Aircraft

Alitalia, Italy’s national airline company, has been in a critical situation ever since two years ago. Several attempts have been made to save the company since then, and airlines such as Air France-KLM, Lufthansa and British Airways have been involved in the process. Read More…

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BMI Aircraft

British airline BMI, Heathrow second -largest airline, will be taken over by German airline Lufthansa.

Lufthansa already owns approximately 30% of BMI shares and now it will buy another 50% from Sir Michael Bishop, the airline’s owner. This deal will bring Lufthansa in close competition with Heathrow’s main airline, which is British Airways. Read More…

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Porsche representatives have declared that they have raised their stake in Volkswagen to 42.6% and are hoping to own the majority package of shares in the European carmaker.

Porsche already owns 35% of Volkswagen, which makes them the biggest shareholder already, but they want to buy even more. Still, they do not wish to create a merger. Read More…

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After six months of negotiations and waiting, Samsung Electronics had decided to put an end to the Sandisk buying process, seeing that the US flash memory card producer has not yet accepted the price they were offered.

Sandisk, based in California, saw the 26 dollars a share price as too low, and did not accept it, although the total amount would have been of 5.9 billion dollars. Read More…

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Exelon Nuclear Power Plant

Exelon Corp. has offered 6.2 billion dollars in stock to purchase the New Jersey based NRG Energy. This buy would mean a great territorial expansion for Exelon Corp., based in Chicago; also, their merge would create a company whose value would sum up to over 60 billion dollars.

NRG officials have not yet reacted to this unsolicited buy proposal, but it seems that they are not very thrilled about it.

Exelon Corp. operates under the environmentally friendly principle and Read More…

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Negotiating

2008… Job, career, family life, personal life… for all these you have to negotiate in order to obtain them. Wife, kid, colleagues, neighbors, friends, bosses… with all these you have to negotiate on order to obtain the first ones.

What is negotiation after all? Well, nowadays negotiation has become an art, because this is one of the ways of getting what you want.Here are some tips to a successful negotiation:

1. Be realistic! Never ask for something that you, yourself, cannot do or obtain. Read More…

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