In late August, this company came out with a statement of a friendly merger with a company called Artemis Resources.

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Japan's increasingly merger-friendly environment, its accounting reforms and banking consolidation may all help.

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Lenovo managed to maintain the strength of the ThinkPad brand through the post-merger period and introduces enterprise-friendly features on a regular basis.

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Indeed, the recent Attachmate-Novell merger represents cost-cutting play as opposed to the equity-friendly growth story pitched by Asurion.

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For adversaries in a merger battle, AMR and US Airways are starting to sound awfully friendly.

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Nextel is getting into the merger in part so it can avoid a costly upgrade to its system and migrate toward the data-friendly Sprint system.

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