Financial Time (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor, yesterday unleashed a proxy fight to remove the Yahoo board and resurrect a takeover bid for the internet company by -Microsoft...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Melbourne-based Indophil Resources NL said Thursday that its board had turned down a takeover bid from Xstrata Plc, its partner in a Philippine gold and copper project, valued at A$426 million ($397 million) the same day that it was received.
The Boy Genius Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo, fresh off the Microsoft rollercoaster, is about to find itself in the midst of yet another takeover bid. Carl Icahn, the world's 46th richest man, is about to begin a proxy bid for the internet giant. The mogul has nominated a board of 10 people to replace the current Yahoo board of advisers. In [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Shares in British Energy Group PLC rose more than 6 percent on Friday after the nuclear generator disclosed that it had received takeover bids higher than Thursday's closing share price.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | yesterday
SYDNEY - Xstrata Ltd's A$426 million ($398 million) takeover bid for Australian-listed copper miner Indophil Resources NL was rejected by Indophil, who said the Swiss-based group's offer was opportunistic.
DealBook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Indophil Resources said Thursday that its board had turned down a takeover bid from Xstrata, MarketWatch reported. Indophil is Xstrata’s partner in a Philippine gold and copper project. The bid was valued at $397 million, but was rejected the same day it was received with Indophil saying the offer was too low to be considered [...]
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
London's equity markets were higher after good results from British Airways and British Energy said it had received a number of takeover offers
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Xstrata Ltd's A$426 million (204 million pound) takeover bid for Australian-listed copper miner Indophil Resources NL was rejected by Indophil, who said the Swiss-based group's offer was opportunistic.
DealBook (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Clear Channel Communications agreed on Tuesday to a revised $17.9 billion takeover by two private equity firms after settling a long and often acrimonious dispute with the six banks that agreed to finance the deal. The deal heads off what would likely have been two rancorous legal battles over the buyout, one of the last holdovers [...]
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Source: [b]New York Times[/b] Clear Channel Communications agreed on Tuesday to a revised $17.9 billion takeover by two private equity firms after settling a long and often acrimonious dispute with the six banks that agreed to finance the deal. The deal heads off what would likely have been two ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
San Francisco - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has amassed some 50 million shares in Yahoo as he prepares to mount a proxy fight aimed at reviving Microsoft's thwarted takeover bid for the internet portal, The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesd...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Such an increase would have lifted the bid price from $155.65 a Rio share to $172.96, based on BHP's closing price on Tuesday of $45.78. The rumour resulted in Rio shares running up strongly. Yesterday, on the ASX, the Rio rumour was overtaken by rumours about BHP -- one had it that an unnamed Chinese entity was preparing to seek up to 10 per cent of BHP through a bookbuild in London at $53 a share,...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Clear Channel agreed to a revised $17.9 billion takeover by two private equity firms after settling a long and often acrimonious dispute with the six banks that agreed to finance the deal.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
BOSTON — Corporate Express NV said it is willing to consider a sweetened $2.47 billion hostile takeover bid by rival office products supplier Staples Inc.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
BOSTON -- Corporate Express NV said it is willing to consider a sweetened $2.47 billion hostile takeover bid by rival office products supplier Staples Inc., which boosted its offering price 10 percent Tuesday.
