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Merging a business into your own is like rebuilding a plane while in flight. Heres how to keep flying.

Merging a business into your own is like rebuilding a plane while in flight. Heres how to keep flying. Acquiring other companies can be a great strategy to grow your company.

Here's how one Israeli company acquired a start-up company, and helped innovation, independence, and creativity flourish there. It is the dream of many entrepreneurs to build something great and have their company acquired.

With the acquisition of OtherInbox, e-mail deliverability company Return Path hopes to help businesses do just that.

New York-based startup Lot18 is bringing its online wine business to Europe, acquiring Paris-based Vinobest for an undisclosed sum.

Too often company executives driven by expanding their empire or blinded by a "quick fix" for entering a new market end up in an overpriced deal. An acquisition can provide a successful avenue for growth and obtaining competitive advantage. But many acquisitions end up as failures for the buyer

Too much inventory and not enough demand can cripple a business of any size. Let this be your warning. When AMR , the parent of American Airlines, declared bankruptcy earlier this week, few should have been surprised

Yahoo is known for acquiring startups and letting them languish. But IntoNow cranked out a whole new product--and a possible game-changer for the TV industry--in six months. Is this the beginning of something new?

The Inc. 5000 company that went public in July continues to grow through several high-profile acquisitions.

Have you considered going after a government contract ? You might be wondering where to even start. These contracts offer the opportunity to work with the largest spender in the United States, and successful execution of a defense contract can result in a highly profitable relationship with the U.S.

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The reaction to Skype's proposed acquisition of

PayPal paid around $240 million to buy Zong , which it calls one of the "leading providers of payments through mobile carrier billing." The firm has relationships with more than 250 cellphone networks in 45 countries, and combined with PayPal's 100 million-ish user accounts, it could give PayPal the "potential to reach the more than 4 billion people around the world who have mobile phones," according to the company. It's a bold move for PayPal.

While the deal makes sense on paper, you know it's never that easy to pull off, which is why you'll need your management team prepped to make it happen as smoothly as possible. Your business , unlike your competition, is doing well and growing. Or, perhaps your growth has reached a lull and you'd like to rectify that