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Harris Williams Advises LYNX Franchising on Its Sale to MidOcean Partners Harris Williams Advises LYNX Franchising on Its Sale to MidOcean Partners Harris Williams, a global investment bank specializing in M&A advisory services, announces it advised LYNX Franchising, a portfolio company of Incline Equity Partners (Incline), on its sale to MidOcean Partners (MidOcean). LYNX Franchising is a multi-brand franchise platform with a complementary collection of B2B essential services. The transaction was led by Brent Spiller, Beau Pierce and Trey Shehan of the Harris Williams Consumer Group. LYNX ...

The f.a.a. is testing that, but kris van cleave reports some critics say that test is unrealistic. >> evacuate, evacuate! >> reporter: in a simulated cabin that can be filled with smoke and plunged into darkness, the f.a.a. will try to determine at what point the size of seats and the space between rows becomes a hazard to evacuating a plane quickly. but they'll do it without any of the obstacles passengers may encounter during a real emergency, like bags, smoke, comfort animals, or the dark. >> during the testing, we're going to try to minimize the variables to the ones that are important for...

Time for cnn business now. a major merger could be in the works in the tech world. christine romans is here with the details. >> good morning. a big potential deal in the headlines. "the wall street journal" reports xerox is considering a takeover of computer and printermaker hp. a cash and stock deal above hp's market value of about $27 billion. these are 20th century brand names. the journal calls them savie i stars of technology. the journal cites people familiar with the matter saying xerox received an informal funding commitment from a bank. hp just installed a new ceo last week. it is mo...

Services will not accept this information. it will be encrypted. the algorithms encrypt the details and people get the information by having a key that they're allowed to unlock, this is difficult information because it's technical. doctors have their own codes for describing this stuff. they are regulated here by hippa, which is a long-time law in this country that protects people's privacy. so that's what we're hearing from amazon this afternoon. back to you. >> shepard: gerri willis reporting live. consumer groups in half a dozen countries are looking to take action against google for repor...

Soft communism, individuals make decisions, individuals are not allowed to make decisions. decisions have to be made for the general good. the community. isn't that ultimately the battle we're facing right now? >> absolutely, the direction we're going. with that comes the loss of liberty, the loss of decision-making, the loss of freedom in the long term and tremendous debt. i mean how do you think we got to $22 trillion in debt? can you take some of it for the war in the middle east, but the rest of it is members of congress expanding social programs without raising the revenues to pay for the...