Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Disney to buy Marvel in $4bn deal

EXTERNAL GROWTH - Good and Bad

This article is a nice example of expected external (inorganic) growth . Look at this associated article, to see a reason why Disney has spent $4billion to acquire Marvel Comics.
It is also a great excuse to sing.... 'Spiderman...Spiderman...does whatever a spider can..."

In this second example we see why Ebay has decided to sell off SKYPE - an example of how Ebay's planed external growth strategy has failed. This related article may identify one of the reasons for the spin off of SKYPE.

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