Sentences with phrase «said was a bid»

Schneiderman's aides took four people into custody Wednesday in connection with what prosecutors said was a bid - rigging scheme at the Monroe County Local Development Corporation.

Exotic sports - car maker Spyker says it is bidding on Saab.

Hans Hofmann's 1965 «Ave Maria,» an abstract in reds, orange and green, was purchased by Klaus Perls, the dealer, for $ 275,000, who said he was bidding for clients.

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.

Cigna says it is rejecting Anthem's proposed $ 48 billion acquisition bid and suing the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer.

CNBC - TV18, citing unnamed sources, said Amazon's new bid was likely to be on a par with Walmart's, but that Flipkart's investors and founders continue to favor the deal with Walmart, with founder Sachin Bansal overseeing final negotiations.

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.

When a manager here comes to me and says certain commodities are going to be put up for bid in the coming months, I go through my files of people I have run across over the course of the past couple of years.

Chairman Keith Spence said there was no certainty that the Harbour proposal, Santos» fourth unsolicited bid since August 2017,...

Volk - Weiss says he actually did want to bid on Segura's second special, but «once we found out Netflix was involved, we backed off.»

Sainsbury's, Britain's second biggest supermarket, said it made a bid approach to Home Retail in November, which was rejected.

However, in addressing the White House's bid to try to reduce its current account deficit, Haussmann said: «What is the problem you are trying to fix?

Hunter Hall Investment Management says Ian Trahar's bid to take over Kresta Holdings significantly undervalues the business and has rejected suggestions it was seeking to take control of the business by ousting key board members.

VA Secretary David Shulkin said that there was a «public interest exception» for giving Cerner the contract without examining other bids, especially considering that the system would better be able to communicate with the Defense Department's EHR tech, which Cerner also worked on.

So, you better pray that there's still someone left who's willing to hit the bid when you want to say bye - bye and get out.

Blankfein said before the election that he was backing her bid for president.

China's third - largest carrier China Telecom is preparing a possible bid for a contract to build and run a new mobile broadband network in Mexico and is seeking local partners to join it in a consortium, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

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.

Regardless of which city potentially wins its bid, Clark said the federal government will be instrumental by making the connection between the Bank of Canada and People's Bank of China.

«If there is no imminent bid for Norwegian, IAG is just the first vulture to have landed that would like a say in how Norwegian's long - distance fleet... is dismantled and sold,» Norne analyst Karl Johan Molnes said.

The company said the letter «was a conditional indication of interest that contemplated substantially less value to the estate, and did not include a purchase agreement, a financing commitment, a deposit, or a number of other requirements for a qualified bid.»

«We want to make certain our bids come from well - established insurers who are going to be around to fulfill the terms of their contracts with us,» he says.

TOKYO / BERLIN, April 25 - In a fresh bid to win its first major foreign arms deal since World War Two, Japan is proposing its P - 1 submarine hunter for a French - German project to develop a marine surveillance aircraft, two Japanese government sources said.

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.

His bid for the presidency was marred by a seemingly inadequate knowledge of national affairs, which was most pronounced during a televised debate that showed Perry unable to remember the name of a third federal department he'd said he planned to cut, along with the Departments of Commerce and Education.

Macmahon Holdings has called out CIMIC Group for what it says is a low - ball takeover bid, saying the Spanish - controlled company should be aware of the improving market for mining services.

On selling a company: «If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same,» he said, referring to the rejected Yahoo bid in 2006.

Secretary of State for Culture Karen Bradley, who is responsible for media issues, said Tuesday she had written to media watchdog Ofcom for more information on its views on Fox's bid for London - listed Sky Plc, the biggest pay - tv operator in the U.K.

Frerot said that Veolia could not bid for unlisted smaller French competitor Saur if it were to be sold because of antitrust reasons.

Though the philanthropy under Bill Gates» name has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Ripple in a bid to help the unbanked, the world's second richest man said Tuesday that the main feature of Bitcoin and its ilk is not a «good thing.»

The main focus of acquisitions will be early - stage assets that can add to the pipeline of experimental drugs, Walmsley said, adding she was not interested in entering a $ 64 billion bidding war with Takeda Pharmaceutical for Shire.

Cuban said early in the 2016 presidential campaign that he was considering a future White House bid, but he later shot the idea down several times.

A spokesman for Varadkar, who is due to meet Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin again on Tuesday morning in a bid to avoid the election, said the government was standing by Fitzgerald.

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.

Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm is a «brilliant move» that will make the company a lot more profitable, says Edward Snyder, analyst at Charter Equity Research.

In an email sent to Reuters last week after the Challenges report was published, lawyer Baratelli said the company's successful tender bids were lawful.

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.

The combination should be «immediately accretive to earnings per share,» said the statement, noting the bid for Moy Park values the entire company at $ 1.3 billion.

Microsoft, AT&T, and Comcast are dropping out of the bid, although there's a small chance that Microsoft could provide a «token investment» to the winning bidder, it said.

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.

If they're successful with their lead bid of roughly US$ 6.5 million at the August 21st bankruptcy auction, Lemonis has reportedly said they'll form a new, privately held Crumbs, re-open its locations, and further expand to include multiple products like popcorn, pies, cookies, ice cream and cake.

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.

«It's giving the gift of sleep to people,» he says in the product's pitch video on Kickstarter, in his first crowdfunding bid.

Microsoft competitor Salesforce, whose CEO, Marc Benioff, said lost out to Microsoft on a bid for LinkedIn and its employee data reservoir, is also gearing to soon debut its new «Salesforce Einstein» A.I. technology for its own sales software and related products.

Comcast's bid to outmuscle Rupert Murdoch's takeover of U.K. broadcaster Sky is expected to trigger a fierce bidding war, analysts says.

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.

Service firms are getting into the act too: «Beth Harshfield, the owner of Exhibit Arts, an advertising and marketing company in Wichita, Kan., said she started bidding on military contracts six years ago because «I got tired of the local economy kicking the legs out from under us.»

Meredith bid for Time Inc. said to be backed by Koch Brothers.

CHICAGO, April 11 - Retailer Toys» R» Us has received multiple bids of more than $ 1 billion for an 85 percent stake in its Asian business, its lawyer Joshua Sussberg said at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing on Wednesday.

«What seems more relevant is the very real possibility that the entire technology sector unites behind Hillary Clinton in a potential general election bid against Donald Trump,» CrowdPAC says.