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Everything is crystal clear for a while now: the future of video games will be in the hands of three or four huge game developers created from mergers and buy-outs (and tender/hostile takeovers, probably). One of the latest companies that seems to have understood that is Square Enix which, ironically, was formed as a... |
20 May 2008
04:00 GMT |
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In a formal statement released yesterday, the board of directors of Take Two formally rejected the new offer for shares that Electronic Arts had put out on Friday. Because the offer is hostile, meaning that it targets individual shareholders rather than negotiate with the board of Take Two, it will continue as planne... |
22 April 2008
02:41 GMT |
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Yahoo! or no Yahoo!, Microsoft is planning to go knee-deep in web search. That should really worry the high-ranking executives at the Sunnyvale-based company, or maybe that was the whole point. MS Chairman and biggest shareholder, Bill Gates, said yesterday in a telephone interview for Reuters that acquiring Yahoo! w... |
19 February 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Yahoo's between the chisel and the hammer right now, with members of the board not agreeing on what to do next, Microsoft breathing heavily down its neck, good people being laid off because of the salary they have and, as of late, because its shareholders have started to voice out about their take on the whole s... |
13 February 2008
14:31 GMT |
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The attempt to create a viable competitor for Google that Microsoft initiated with its $31 per share offer on Friday had everybody very excited over the weekend. Many say that the length of time until something is announced is like in court: if it's a fast jury ruling, it's in favor of the accusing side. Fo... |
4 February 2008
07:06 GMT |
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The rumor that Microsoft might be taking over Yahoo has been spun round the rumor mill for far too long now and far too many times it has failed to produce an official statement or a pertinent opinion from somebody in the game. This finally happened as Bernstein Research analyst Jeffrey Lindsay shed some light on the... |
15 January 2008
13:21 GMT |
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Google is moving to be the one thing we wake up in the morning to check our dreams with, as for what they mean and so on, the place to see what breakfast has less calories and which route to work is the shortest and, thanks to Street View, less jammed. With the speculations about it taking over Yell Croup Plc, the pu... |
14 January 2008
04:22 GMT |
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On Semiconductor has confirmed the rumors that alleged the company's taking over the AMIS Holdings business, for a fair amount of $915 million. Upon completion, the transaction is supposed to consolidate the ON Semi's position on both analog and power integrated circuitry producers market. "Combining On Sem... |
13 December 2007
09:35 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics has showed a drop in profit rates for this year's second quarter, which has made the company somewhat vulnerable. As if this wasn't bad enough news, the South Korean government is planning to take over Samsung's division in this country."58 financially healthy companies in which for... |
16 July 2007
03:35 GMT |
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