While the previous statement defines economic growth, it can also be used to describe the economic outcome of big business mergers.
Businesses merge to become more profitable and efficient.
After the acquisition they have more technology at their disposal, which allows for an increase in output and increased quality of products for the consumer. The alliance of these companies has posed dramatic new competition against Microsoft Corporation as the world's dominant hi-tech company. Due to this merger, stock prices in both companies skyrocketed. AOL was to exchange 0.45 shares of its stock for each share outstanding of Netscape. Both AOL and Netscape stock had climbed sharply since merger talks began.