[moolcool]

https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741...

[skeeter2020]

What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today.

[xp84]

Also funny is how many of the companies listed as top-level parts of the conglomerates, like Viacom, Paramount, Boeing, SBC-Ameritech, Bell Atlantic-NYNEX, etc. have since conglomerated further in the years since!

[dvngnt_]

> A spokesperson for the newly formed Bank One-Chase Manhattan-MCI-WorldCom said the company plans to cut 92,000 jobs this month.

They're pretty close with the headcount though

[teeray]

“Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”

[ezfe]

Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount.

[jimbokun]

> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”

[giraffe_lady]

Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn.

[scruple]

> Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

[mortos]

Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior.

[tgv]

Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.

[qnleigh]

> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”

[jakub_g]

> “Take Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, for example,” he said. “Disney makes the movie, Joel Siegel of Paramount-owned ABC-TV gives the movie a rave review, and Disney subsidiaries Blockbuster and McDonald’s promote the video release of the movie in their respective stores with mail-in rebates and Happy Meal action figures. It’s a win-win scenario.”

Apart from McDonald's, we're not that far!

[padjo]

Wow, I get two cookie banners and an unclosable full screen pop up on that link. The web really has become garbage.