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According to this theory, the family didn't want even the slightest hint of impropriety to affect the Sky bid — especially when there is enough attention already on the Murdochs» history with News of the World and the hacking of private telephone accounts, an affair that caused them to drop an earlier bid for the company in 2011.

Baysa said Jollibee had not submitted a formal or informal bid for any company in recent months.

Footstar reimbursed the chairman $ 160,000 for his failed bid for the company in 2006.

As for the possibility of a publicly - traded buyer, it is possible that two or more entities would come together to make a bid for the company in order to divide Forest City's assets, Adornato says.

Not exact matches

Although a number of media companies including Vox and Penske Media were said to be interested in bidding for Gawker, the auction only involved bids from Univision and Ziff - Davis.

Cramer was also burned on Pfizer's aborted takeover bid for drug company Allergan, which had an overseas taxation rate that would allow the company to pay lower taxes than if it were based in the U.S.

ALMATY, April 24 - Canada's Centerra Gold said on Tuesday it had received an unsolicited bid for its Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan from Chaarat Gold Holdings but that it had informed the London - listed company that it was not interested in the offer.

Qatar will not have an Indian partner in this proposed airline and the company has also stated it is not bidding for Air India.

Larian, the CEO of the toy company MGA Entertainment, on Friday bid $ 890 million for more than 300 Toys R Us stores in the US and Canada.

He accused the company of «outrageous behavior in putting its pursuits of profits ahead of its duty to prevent the endangerment of the people,» and «bidding lower and lower for contracts in order to compete.»

In 2008, the company made a bid for Napster, the file - sharing service that had relaunched as a subscription music product, but bowed out when the asking price was too high.

This has created an ecosystem in which two of the world's richest and fastest - growing companies are bidding against one another for hot investments.

Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital — a business partner with Valeant in its failed bid last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the company in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours.

In 1995, the pension plan had co-funded the McCains» takeover bid for Maple Leaf Foods from British company Hillsdown PLC, and held a 35 % stake since then.

Verizon Communications Inc. is the clear favorite in the upcoming bidding for Yahoo Inc's core Internet business, according to Wall Street analysts, in large part because the telecommunications company's efforts to become a force in Internet content have gone relatively well under the leadership of AOL Inc Chief Executive Tim Armstrong.

Not long after the Supreme Court deemed Aereo's service «for all practical purposes a traditional cable system,» the company, in a desperate last bid for survival, pulled an about - face and argued that it should be allowed to operate like one.

According to documents provided to Reuters by Lorna Brett, a spokeswoman for a law firm suing Weinstein and The Weinstein Company, Inclusion Media submitted a bid of $ 315 million in cash.

Samantha Godfrey, CEO and co-founder of San Diego - based Pharmly, a pharmaceutical bidding marketplace that graduated from the program in June, says her company benefited from mentors who gave guidance for which she would have paid top dollar had she been working on her own, as well as from $ 60,000 in credit for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

The takeover bid for Aquila Resources took an unexpected turn today when a mystery buyer, believed to be Mineral Resources, spent about $ 192 million buying a large stake in the Perth company, paying well above the bid price.

Following on from Fiverr in the states there are now several Uk based companies, such as Fourerr, Fivess and Fiverbid, who will get peolpe to bid for your work for under # 5.

The proposal kicked off a bidding war for Warrnambool, however, and another Australian dairy company stated it would be in the «national interest» for its own proposal to be given full consideration before the Montreal firm's offer moves ahead.

In the past few years, various Chinese companies and funds have made numerous bids for high - tech firms — some with military applications — in the U.S. and EuropIn the past few years, various Chinese companies and funds have made numerous bids for high - tech firms — some with military applications — in the U.S. and Europin the U.S. and Europe.

The uptick in the shares reflects a belief that Netflix is now in a position to sign up more subscribers this year than analysts had previously anticipated, generating additional revenue that the company can spend on TV series and movies as it bids against rivals such as HBO, Amazon.com, YouTube and Hulu for licensing rights.

Vanity Fair contributing editor Sarah Ellison said that Trump has also talked with advisors often about his ability to drive high traffic numbers for networks such as Fox News and CNN, and feels that he could do the same thing for his own media company even if he is unsuccessful in his presidential bid.

April 13 - Toy company MGA Entertainment said on Friday it put in an $ 890 million bid for Toys» R» Us stores in the U.S. and Canada.

Western Digital has offered to drop out of a bid for Toshiba's semiconductor business in return for a stronger position in the two companies» chip joint venture.

In May it announced it was making an $ 8.7 - billion bid for popular eye care company Bausch + Lomb.

Rupert Murdoch has pulled his Fox News channel from the Sky platform in Britain, where the government is assessing a bid by the media mogul to buy the broader Sky pay - TV company for $ 15 billion.

Home Depot has held internal discussions in recent months about a potential acquisition bid for XPO, a $ 9 billion publicly traded company that offers transportation, delivery and other logistics services for big retailers and brands, according to a person familiar with Home Depot's thinking.

The new deal puts pressure on fellow chipmaker Broadcom to decide if it will stick with a stipulation in its $ 121 billion bid for Qualcomm that the company not raise its previous $ 110 a share offer for NXP.

April 13 (Reuters)- Toy company MGA Entertainment said on Friday it put in an $ 890 million bid for Toys «R» Us stores in the U.S. and Canada.

In 2015 he consolidated the company's engineering efforts under three executives — Terry Myerson, Scott Guthrie, and Qi Lu (who has since left Microsoft for health reasons)-- and bid adieu to several more, among them former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.

Students then bid on positions in an auction, which reduces the number of people competing for any given internship and ensures that the companies see resumes from the most interested candidates.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department indicted McClendon in a conspiracy in which two unnamed companies agreed not to bid against each other for oil and gas leases in northwest Oklahoma between late 2007 and early 2012, a charge he denied.

Threatened by the prospect of a combined Broad - Qual, the company is said to be waiting in the wings, ready to swoop in and make a bid for Broadcom if the Qualcomm coup looks likely to succeed.

Recommendation: In many cases, it makes sense to bid the highest for your own brand since people who are searching for your company are the most likely to convert.

While the company has reportedly put itself up for sale, so far no suitor has agreed to a deal, though a fake takeover bid in May 2015 briefly sent Avon's (AVP) shares surging 20 % before the offer was revealed as a hoax (and the shares promptly resumed their downward trend).

Shares of Travelport Worldwide soared 17 percent on Monday after a report said activist hedge fund Elliott Associates is in talks to make a bid for the company.

His appointment coincided with a string of announcements from the car company, including plans to organize its business into six divisions, while creating a separate portfolio for China, in a bid to decentralize responsibility.

Western Digital has offered to drop out of a bid for Toshiba's lucrative semiconductor business in return for a stronger position in the two companies» chip joint venture, two sources said on Tuesday.

In a bid to make itself more attractive to business owners, LinkedIn has launched an enhanced analytics suite for company pages.

Prospects could be buoyed by a group of toymakers who said Wednesday they're looking to make a bid for the company's Canadian business, through which they would buy some U.S. locations in the liquidation to operate as a subsidiary.

Just how Tribune (TPUB) would mount a hostile takeover bid for Gannett (GCI), a company that is more than four times its size in terms of stock - market value, is unclear.

The group acquired Misfit in November of last year for $ 260 million in a bid to get the company back on track after slow earnings earlier in 2015.

Univision Holdings (univision) has offered to acquire Gawker Media, challenging a $ 90 million stalking horse bid from media company Ziff Davis in the auction for the U.S. internet publisher, people familiar with the matter said.

«This bid seems to defy logic,» Peel Hunt analyst Paul Morland told the Financial Times, characterizing the 79 % premium HP paid as «an «amazing» premium for a company whose earnings grew by just 6 per cent in the first half of the year.»

The deal puts the defense tech company in a strong position as it bids for the right to upgrade the U.S.'s ground - based arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear - armed missiles, a procurement program with a value estimated at over $ 60 billion over its expected lifetime.

The multifaceted Japanese tech giant is not letting a failed bid for T - Mobile stand in the way of its quest to become the biggest company in the world.

Thailand's third - richest man is set to take control of Fraser and Neave (F&N) in Southeast Asia's biggest M&A deal after a group led by an Indonesian tycoon bowed out of a two - month bidding war for the $ 11.4 billion Singapore company.

In 2012, I wrote about a study that looked at the winners of bidding wars for contested acquisitions, and found they generally do worse over the next few years that the companies that lost.