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[Posted on May 16, 2008 - 4:12 PM]
  With the expiration date hanging over Electronic Arts Inc.' $2 billion unsolicited bid for Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (the offer expires tonight at 11:59 EST, to be precise), an...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 16, 2008 - 1:20 PM]
  The organizers of the Enabling Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Markets Summit, which is being held May 28-29, 2008, at the Marriott Detroit Troy, have won kudos for the event's timeliness and...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 16, 2008 - 12:17 PM]
  Little more than 18 months after a successful IPO, optical subsystem maker Optium Corp. [OPTM] has agreed to be swallowed by larger rival Finisar Corp. [FNSR] for about $212 million. After...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 16, 2008 - 9:58 AM]
With a growing number of investors demanding a sale to Microsoft Corp. [MSFT], embattled web search engine Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] on Thursday, May 16, rejected Carl Icahn's attempts to seize control of...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 16, 2008 - 9:55 AM]
  Yahoo! Inc. [YHOO] late Thursday, May 15, released its response to Carl Icahn and his decision to lead a proxy fight for control of the company's board of directors....  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 16, 2008 - 9:51 AM]
The following is from Tech Confidential partner OC VC, a blog written by Marc Averrit, cofounder and managing partner at Okapi Venture Capital: I have written about the parallels between surfing...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 16, 2008 - 12:53 AM]
Spending a billion dollars and finding 10 friends to run as candidates for Yahoo! Inc.'s board of directors was fairly easy for Carl Icahn. Things get tricky now. With his...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 15, 2008 - 6:14 PM]
The announcement Thursday that IAC/InterActiveCorp [IACI] unit Ask.com will buy Lexico Publishing Group LLC was chock full of data about its target's strong and growing reach. Lexico, which owns the...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 15, 2008 - 6:12 PM]
I've spent some time toying with Blip, the new "Twitter-for-music" service from Fuzz.com, over the past day or so. (As I write, it's playing Yo La Tengo, courtesy of someone...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 15, 2008 - 6:12 PM]
Oracle Corp. [ORCL] got little attention for its acquisition of insurance software maker AdminServer earlier this week, but according to a report from Novarica, the deal could heat up M&A activity...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 15, 2008 - 5:48 PM]
In this episode of Tech Confidential's Behind the Money online video show, we speak with Matthew Wurtzel, editor of Dealscape, about Friday's expiration date for Electronic Arts Inc.'s bid for...  Continue Reading.
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[Posted on May 15, 2008 - 2:19 PM]
  In its ongoing efforts to replace the entire board of directors of chipmaker Micrel Inc. [MCRL], Obrem Capital Management LLC on Thursday urged Micrel to come clean with its...  Continue Reading.
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Behind the Money, Episode 30: Electronic Arts bid for Take-Two

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In this episode of Behind the Money, we speak with Matthew Wurtzel, editor of Dealscape about the expiration of Electronic Arts bid for Take-Two Interactive on May 16, 2008.
 


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