Still, their bid to buy Landsbanki put in play a rival, Bunadarbanki, as well.
Despite an abortive bid to buy Palm from 3Com last year, Mr Jobs affects unconcern.
In August, the California state Senate blocked its bid to buy Franklin Financial, a one-branch bank in Southern California.
And last month a similar bid to buy into the German pay TV market came to nothing.
But former City player Ray Ranson is understood to have withdrawn his bid to buy the club.
But in August, Blum made his lowball bid for Buy.com shares and plunged back into the company's affairs.
The hope is by registering this as a community asset, it will strengthen the trust's bid to buy the building from NHS Somerset.
Flowers moved to abort its bid to buy Sallie Mae due to the imminent passage of a House bill curtailing federal student loan subsidies.
Richard Notebaert is pressing on in his bid to buy MCI (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ), seemingly at any price.
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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's appointment to handle News Corporation's bid to buy BSkyB "was not some rushed, botched, political decision", PM David Cameron has said.
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) launched a bid to buy it, saying it is a "once in a lifetime opportunity" to protect a piece of literary heritage.
The UK's Prudential lost out to AIG in its bid to buy American General, but may still be keen to enter the US market in a big way.
The revelation came on the first day of a court hearing into the US Department of Justice's attempt to block Oracle's long-running bid to buy smaller rival Peoplesoft.
Last week a South African group pulled out of a bid to buy the club after the Rugby Football Union (RFU) turned down a plan to relocate to London.
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It creates new rights for communities to instigate local referendums on any issue, veto "excessive" council tax rises and bid to buy local assets like libraries, pubs and shops.
That's why reports on Monday that Vodafone was exploring a bid to buy T-Mobile U.K. , the British mobile network unit belonging to Deutsche Telekom , came as little surprise.
On television on Tuesday morning, Flowers and Mark Winkelman , who was named chairman of Refco, insisted they planned to resuscitate the firm and possibly make a bid to buy Refco's securities-brokerage division.
Last week, auto dealership magnate Roger Penske's bid to buy the Saturn brand fell apart just before the deal was finalized when a contract to make vehicles was rejected by the Renault board.
Megamergers like Vodaphone's bid to buy Mannesmann in telecom and Glaxo Wellcome's embrace of SmithKline Beecham in drugs are reducing the supply of big, rich companies that can pay Spencer Stuart's hefty fees.
The Fed extended its Operation Twist program last month, in a bid to buy more time for the economy to show whether it is driving through a rough patch or running out of gas.
FORBES: Bernanke Says Fed Has Plenty Of Options, Doesn't Signal When He'll Use Them
"There have been reports that DirecTV management discussed a plan to put in a bid and buy DirecTV themselves, " says Jimmy Schaeffler of The Carmel Group, a satellite research firm based in Carmel, Calif.
Holders also allege that after it notified the exchange of the problem but before trading was frozen, Goldman continued to bid to buy back the warrants while ceasing sell offers that would have meant disclosing the real price based on the prospectus.
Meanwhile, Malone's Liberty Media (nyse: L - news - people) appears to be playing hardball as it tries to win German regulatory approval for its bid to buy Deutsche Telekom 's (nyse: DT - news - people) cable TV assets.
It might not help that the Lib Dems' loudest critic of Rupert Murdoch is not their leader but the business secretary, Vince Cable (who last year indicated to undercover journalists that he wanted to block News Corporation's now-aborted bid to buy the chunk of BSkyB that it does not already own).
The New York-based market maker also made a bid today to buy Knight Capital.
FORBES: Bids For Knight Capital Heat Up As Virtu Makes An All-Cash Offer
Billionaire Richard Schulze will wait until after the holidays to make a bid for Best Buy.
FORBES: Schulze Will Wait To Bid On Best Buy. He'll Want To See The Christmas Misery
Earlier Tuesday, the Bank of Japan cut its benchmark interest rate to nearly zero and said it would buy government bonds in a bid to weaken the yen and boost the Japanese economy.
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