merger

What the purchase potentially means for New Jersey

The London Stock Exchange and Germany's Deutsche Boerse say they are merging in an all-stock deal that will leave the German side with a majority in a company worth about $30 billion.

The merger would combine two companies that sell agricultural products to millions of farmers around the world, and make a variety of chemicals for consumer and industrial products ranging from electronics, automobiles, and household goods to building materials and safety equipment.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox is abandoning its attempt to take over Time Warner in a proposed deal that would have combined two of the world's biggest media companies.

Somerset Medical Center in Somerville is pursuing a merger with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.

The drugmakers Actavis Inc. and Warner Chilcott PLC say they are holding early discussions about a possible combination of the two companies.

The president of the AFL-CIO is worried that the merger of American Airlines and US Airways will trigger a costly fight between two unions over representation of airline ground workers.

It seems the scandal involving its basketball program is all we're hearing about Rutgers University these days, but there's actually something else happening at the school. The July 1 deadline for Rutgers to finalize the largest higher education merger is creeping ever closer.

New Jersey's Princeton Township and Princeton Borough have become just Princeton.

Governor Chris Christie says he has no plans to scale back -- or slow down -- a planned merger involving three of New Jersey's public universities, despite vocal opposition from Rutgers-Camden.