sure, lots of people are aware that companies are merging and merging into supercorporations. but there's also a more subtle way of influincing each
other. it's known as "interlocking boards of directors", or more succintly, corporate incest. when company a has mister x on it's board, and
mister x is also on the board of company b, that's corporate incest. up until recently, Larry Ellison was on the boards of both Oracle and Apple. (he
resigned from Apple's board in September.) here's a list of companies with interlocking boards as of 2001:
here
here's some articles on the subject:
twincities.bizjournals.com...
www.ran.org...