Icahn has made no bones about welcoming a competing bid from others.
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Morgan Capital and Providence Equity Partners --is reportedly crafting a competing bid.
Faced with the prospect of being left out of the action and excluded from enterprise markets, other regional carriers could also make a competing bid.
Chrysler wants the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to approve bidding rules for the auction that would require creditor objections to be submitted by May 11 with the competing bid deadline set at May 15.
Langone, who is also a seat holder, has put together a group of bankers and other investors to consider whether to initiate a competing bid for the exchange, or to push for more money for NYSE stakeholders.
The union has felt slighted by the company, claiming it agreed to deal without giving the workers time to find a competing bid, while the company doesn't want the union interfering in matters best left to shareholders and board members.
Many believe Langone's ultimate motive is to get a higher price--as well as to needle Goldman Sachs Group (nyse: GS - news - people ) for its role as advisor to both buyer and seller--though speculation continues to focus on whether he would organize a competing bid.
Bulgheroni outsmarted Unocal, which was competing for the bid and sued Bridas, but the company, led by Chairman Alejandro Bulgheroni, won in the courtroom.
The Smart Grid enables a market system that provides cost-benefit tradeoffs to consumers by creating opportunities to bid for competing services.
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Now, the two would field competing craft in a bid to claim the first -- and substantially bigger -- Kremer world speed prize.
Instead of being tied to one firm, a worker would be free to work for whoever will hire them within a particular region, and therefore have their labor bid up by competing employers.
Despite the fact that Qwest's (nyse: Q - news - people ) new bid is 19% more than a competing offer from Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people ), it's likely to receive a chilly reception from MCI (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ) execs.
Boeing was chosen as the preferred vendor for the heavy-lift helicopter contract after its bid was found to be lowest of two competing companies.
With iTunes commanding the majority of the digital-movie download market, the studios have made a bid to control their own fates by developing a competing cloud service called UltraViolet.
When the offers arrived, the bid from the Johnson-Walter group was so much higher than the competing offers, it essentially took the franchise off the block almost instantly.
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