Sentences with phrase «bid offer for»

Adding to the strange rumours surrounding Star Wars Battlefront III, the studio Rebellion, who was rumoured to be secretly working on the game, put in a bid offer for some of Free Radical's assets.

Not exact matches

BENGALURU / MUMBAI, May 2 (Reuters)- Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to buy 60 percent of Flipkart , CNBC - TV18 reported on Wednesday, potentially complicating Walmart Inc's bid for majority ownership of the Indian online retailer.

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.

The most recent example, of course, came on Tuesday, when Facebook announced a $ 2 billion acquisition of the virtual reality startup Oculus VR, but it's just the most recent in a string of Facebook's recent buyout offers, from it's failed $ 3 billion bid for Snapchat to its jaw - dropping $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.

Seven Group Holdings has upped its takeover bid for National Hire Group, after its initial offer of $ 3.00 per share was rejected by the target's major shareholder, Tasmania - based Caterpillar dealer Da

Taking one for the team; bidding up and against your own best offer; sucking it up, and accepting a deal that you're not sure the company can afford — these are bad choices and consistent signals that there're bigger issues and problems coming.

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.

Durban, who jokingly likens the deal to marrying off one of his daughters, and Andreessen are uncharacteristically mum when it comes to the juicy details of the negotiations, and Microsoft declined to make Klein available for the story, but clearly Microsoft was bidding not against another buyer but against the valuation Skype expected to secure from its public offering.

AT&T's proposed seven - year ban on programming blackouts to distributors of some Time Warner content shows that the company is willing to offer concessions to close its $ 85.4 billion bid for the programmer, AT&T's chief executive officer said on Wednesday.

BC Iron is one step closer to completing its $ 256 million takeover bid for the Kerry Stokes - backed Iron Ore Holdings, after major shareholder Australian Capital Equity yesterday accepted the offer.

For the Phelans, who had long threatened to take the company private again, that presented an opportunity Though they ran into opposition from institutional investors who criticized the initial offer as too low, the Phelans won out after slightly sweetening the bid.

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.

Comcast's $ 31 billion offer for British broadcaster Sky challenges a lower takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's Fox.

Broadcom said its $ 121 billion acquisition proposal for Qualcomm is the «best and final» offer after the target's board unanimously rejected the sweetened bid, likely leaving the future of the hostile takeover bid to be decided by shareholders next month.

To help strengthen its bid for a Department of Energy innovation loan, the upstart Elio Motors is offering a temporary deal on its planned three - wheel, hyper - efficient flagship vehicle.

Broadcom Monday upped its bid for Qualcomm, raising the total offer to approximately $ 121 billion and increasing the likelihood of a tie - up.

CNBC's David Faber reports Fox and Disney are not seen backing down on their bid for British broadcaster Sky after Comcast's $ 31 billion offer.

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.

Comcast offers 22.1 billion pounds ($ 31 billion) for Sky, raising the stakes for Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over the pay - TV group.

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.

U.S. paints and coatings maker PPG Industries will not launch a formal bid for Dutch peer Akzo Nobel after repeated informal offers were rejected, it said.

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.

No committed financing was required for second - round bids, and Yahoo will assemble in the coming days a new shortlist of bidders from which it will solicit binding offers.

LONDON, April 25 - U.S. cable company Comcast Corp submitted a 22 billion pound offer for pay - TV group Sky on Wednesday, challenging an already agreed but lower takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's Fox.

The auction was triggered by a recent $ 300 - million stalking horse offer Fairfax made that allowed others to make competing bids for the Canadian operations until Monday at 10 a.m. EST, but court filings showed no bidders other than Fairfax registered an offer.

Last week Sprint had to raise its offer for wireless service provider Clearwire to $ 5 per share from $ 3.40 per share to fight off a rival bid of $ 4.40 per share from Dish.

TMK Montney shareholders are being offered Calima shares on a 2.1 - for - one basis, along with 0.9 Calima shares for each option, valuing the bid at $ 7.92 million.

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).

For each security, a Market Maker is required to ensure there is a bid and offer at all times and at an agreed - upon spread goal.

A fourth hostile offer — Broadcom's $ 103 billion bid for Qualcomm — was rejected late in the year.

LONDON, April 25 - U.S. media group Comcast submitted a 22 billion pound bid for Sky on Wednesday, prompting the European pay TV group to drop its support for a lower offer from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox.

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.

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters)- Sky withdrew its recommendation of Rupert Murdoch's contested bid for the European pay - TV group after rival Comcast submitted a higher, 22 billion - pound ($ 31 billion) cash offer on Wednesday.

Apple also reportedly considered a much larger content acquisition last year: A number of news outlets said the company made a takeover bid for content giant Time Warner, which owns HBO and CNN among other things, but the latter decided to accept an offer from telecom player AT&T instead.

I placed a bid for $ 100 but the counter offer was $ 5,000.

LONDON / NEW YORK, April 25 - U.S. media group Comcast submitted a 22 billion pound bid for Sky on Wednesday, prompting the European pay TV group to drop its support for a lower offer from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox.

LONDON, April 25 - Sky withdrew its recommendation of Rupert Murdoch's contested bid for the European pay - TV group after rival Comcast submitted a higher, 22 billion - pound cash offer on Wednesday.

After Eiffel won the bidding to design the tower, the government of France surprised him by offering only $ 300,000 for the job — a fraction of the $ 1.6 million budget he'd proposed.

The bid for the Canadian nickel and gold producer comes in the form of an all - cash offer for all of LionOre's issued and outstanding shares, the Switzerland - based mining giant said.

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.

CNBC's parent, Comcast is making a cash offer for British broadcaster Sky with a bid that is 16 percent higher than Twenty - First Century Fox's offer.

Dunham «chose» Random House after a fierce bidding war broke out for her proposal, which no doubt means it offered her the most money.

F&N also has a food and beverage business which its second - biggest shareholder, Kirin Holdings, had offered to buy for S$ 2.7 billion had the Overseas Union group's bid been successful.

SoftBank raised its bid for Sprint on June 10 to $ 21.6 billion from its previous offer of $ 20.1 billion.

That may explain why Japan's Suntory jumped ahead of a number of European suitors, including France's Pernod Ricard, to bid for Beam last month — offering to pay Beam stockholders $ 83.50 per share, a 25 % premium over the stock's then - market price of around $ 67, in addition to assuming some $ 2.4 billion in company debt.

The proposed offer was 150 % more than Tronc was trading for before the first bid was tabled.

It's also uncertain as to whether Lazaridis is simply trying to generate more interest and higher bids for BlackBerry with this filing, creating a larger pool of potential investors who might want to come forward with a better go - private offer.

That bid ultimately failed, although it did force General Dynamics to amend its offer to acquire all outstanding shares of CSRA for $ 41.25 per share in cash, an increase from the original $ 40.75 per share offer.

PIE will be offered first to a few private investment funds and then serve as a clearinghouse where homeowners can submit their house for bid to various types of investors.

Freston added that soon after his initial offer, Yahoo and Microsoft made bids in excess of $ 1 billion for ownership of Facebook.