Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

Even technology companies get good news sometimes.

A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.

Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.

They are busy looking and sending inquiries out to the bus suppliers and big bus companies to see if there are any buses either for rent or to lease to them on a short-term basis.

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.