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- Microsoft and Yahoo: a Postmortem
- Julie finds out about Baumer going Microsoft for Yahoo.
- Videos 2008-05-07
- What Is a Poison Pill?
- "Poison pills" work to thwart hostile takeovers, but they can also turn shareholders against you. How It Works Most poison-pill agreements are triggered when an outside company or individual — think Carl Icahn, for example — acquires ...
- Articles 2008-08-11
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- Oracle makes $5.1 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft. (IT in Brief).(Oracle Corp. makes a hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc.)(Brief Article)
- Oracle Corp. has made a hostile takeover bid for rival enterprise resource planning ERP software vendor PeopleSoft Inc. Last week, Oracle said it will offer a cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of PeopleSoft at $16 per sh Oracle Corp....
- Research articles 2003-06-16
- KPN doesn't rule out hostile takeover bid for mmO2
- FRANKFURT AFP ? The Dutch telecommunications group KPN said it does not rule out making a possible hostile takeover bid for its British rival mmO2 after friendly takeover talks failed. "We never exclude a possibility," the Financial Times Deutschland quoted a KPN spokesman as saying in its Monday edition...
- Research articles 2004-02-23
- Investors back N. Fork;Premium puts Dime in tough spot; is there a white knight for thrift?(shareholder of Dime Bancorp. appear to favor hostile takeover by North Fork Bancorp)(Brief Article)
- Major institutional shareholders of Dime Bancorp appear to be ready to vote down the thrift's proposed merger with Hudson United Bancorp and support a hostile takeover by North Fork Bancorp. Dime's only hopes of preserving its merger of equals with Major institutional shareholders of...
- Research articles 2000-03-13
- Echlin fights hostile takeover by SPX.
- BRANFORD, CONN. -- Echlin Inc. has no plan to exit plastics as it restructures and fends off a hostile takeover by SPX Corp. Echlin considers plastics molding and extrusion integral to its core auto parts manufacturing business, said Paul Ryder, vi BRANFORD, CONN. --...
- Research articles 1998-02-23
- Placer Dome (SCSC) SqueezeTrigger Price Is $15.43. Short Sellers Down Nearly $25 Million After Barrick Gold Makes $9.2 Billion Hostile Takeover Offer.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 October 2005-BUYINS.NET: Placer Dome SCSC SqueezeTrigger Price Is $15.43. Short Sellers Down Nearly $25 Million After Barrick Gold Makes $9.2 Billion Hostile Takeover OfferC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31102005 www.buyins.net, announced today that the 5.9 million shares declared short...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- Harmony's hostile takeover bid sparks court challenge in South Africa
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — A battle over a hostile takeover bid to create the world's largest gold mining group has spilled over into court, with Gold Fields Limited GFI accusing rival Harmony of being in breach of South African criminal laws. Gold Fields said late Wednesday it had launched a...
- Research articles 2004-10-28
- Harmony gets 10.8 pct Gold Fields shares in hostile takeover bid
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — South African mining group Harmony said it had received 10.8 percent of outstanding Gold Fields shares in a hostile takeover bid to create the world's largest gold producer. The announcement was the first indication of how Gold Fields shareholders view the multi-billion-dollar unfriendly takeover bid launched...
- Research articles 2004-11-29
- Costs of fighting a hostile takeover.
- Costs of fighting a hostile takeover may be deductible. An Appeals Court says some are...OKs deductions for printing costs and investment banking fees in an unsuccessful try to fend off a takeover. But not any expenses that later facilitated the eventual merger,...
- Research articles 1997-07-11
- Circon Defeats U.S. Surgical Hostile Takeover Attempt
- SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 16, 1998--Richard A. Auhll, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Circon Corp. (Nasdaq/NM:CCON), Wednesday stated: "I welcome U.S. Surgical's termination of its hostile takeover attempt of Circon. "For two years, Circon executives have devoted substantial time and energy to the...
- Research articles 1998-09-16
- POISON PILL PROTECTS WACHNER FROM HOSTILE TAKEOVER ANALYST: PURCHASE OF BOTH WACHNER AND CALVIN WOULD RENDER DISPUTE ACADEMIC.(Brief Article)
- NEW YORK -- A "poison pill" anti-takeover provision instituted by Warnaco last summer makes a hostile takeover of the beseiged firm unlikely, but not impossible. Calvin Klein's lawsuit against the company, alleging trademark violations and seeking the termination of Warnaco's license...
- Research articles 2000-06-12
- Houston Drilling Firm Nabors Industries May Attempt Hostile Takeover.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 31--Nabors Industries said Friday it is determined to buy Pool Energy Services Co. after Pool flatly rejected a $306 million stock and cash takeover bid made earlier this month. The offer was made to Pool's board on...
- Research articles 1998-10-30
- New Orleans-based Energy Partners Ltd. survives hostile takeover
- Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has failed in its $883-million hostile takeover attempt of New Orleans-based Energy Partners Ltd., with the offer lapsing Friday.
- Research articles 2006-11-20
- Aon Group Inc. introduces Hostile Takeover Defense Insurance Product
- CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--May 16, 1996--Aon Group Inc. Aon Group today announced that its retail insurance brokerage and risk management consulting arm, Aon Risk Services Companies Inc. Aon Risk Services, and its subsidiary Nicholson Leslie Group are offering a new Hostile Takeover Defense Insurance Product in the United States.
- Research articles 1996-05-16
- FTC needs aggressive stance toward hostile takeover attempts - Federal Trade Commission - column
- FTC needs aggressive stance toward hostile takeover attempts
- Research articles 1988-10-10
- Matsushita Comments on Media Reports about Company's Plans in Regards to Hostile Takeover Countermeasures
- OSAKA, Japan -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (MEI (NYSE symbol: MC)) commented on today's press reports in Japan about the company's plans to adopt hostile takeover countermeasures subject to approval by its shareholders in June.
- Research articles 2005-04-12
- -Air Canada announces new restructuring plan to counter hostile takeover bid - Brief Article
- Air Canada has announced a new plan to restructure the Canadian airline industry as part of its attempt to counter a hostile takeover bid by Onex Corp and American Airlines. The move by Air Canada, which has been backed by Star Alliance partners United Airlines and Lufthansa, is seen as...
- Research articles 1999-10-22
- Sara Lee seeks expansion through hostile takeover
- CHICAGO -- Sara Lee launched a hostile takeover bid for Chock full o'Nuts as it seeks to expand its coffee business and compete better against giant Starbucks.
- Research articles 1999-05-05
- Poultry processor Gold Kist Inc. said it rejected Pilgrim's Pride Corp.'s hostile takeover bid of about $1 billion and filed a lawsuit to stop the rival poultry producer from trying to elect its own officers to Gold Kist's board of directors
- Poultry processor Gold Kist Inc. said it rejected Pilgrim's Pride Corp.'s hostile takeover bid of about $1 billion and filed a lawsuit to stop the rival poultry producer from trying to elect its own officers to Gold Kist's board of directors. According to Gold Kist, its board decided Pilgrim's Pride's...
- Research articles 2006-10-16
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