Corporations are like people, they are born as small businesses; they are small, innocent, and vulnerable against taxes and competition so they have to kill before they get killed. If a business is a failure it dies in the arena of the free market, the funeral is known as a bankruptcy, its assets and possessions are liquidated and redistributed to form new seed money to create new small businesses. You know, the cycle of life. If a small business is successful it grows up into a healthy company ready to face new competition. This is a very important period to any young company, it is reaching its teenage wild years in which it seeks to mate with other companies. This is called a merger, but to do so it must accumulate more power and money to make the merger a successful. But as you know Bi