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Then came Yahoo: Microsoft stock fell 15% in early February following the company's attempted hostile merger with the search engine giant.
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Then came Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ): Microsoft stock fell 15% in early February following the company's attempted hostile merger with the search engine giant.
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The British, however, having seen both an agreed merger and a hostile one fail, are in no mood to link up with the Americans.
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Their relationship ended during a dispute over the terms of a deal to forge a single business out of Xstrata and Glencore, with Glasenberg annoyed that Davis joined a push for more generous terms, a demand which was met but which also turned a so-called merger of equals into a hostile takeover and the break-up of the team.
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The message implied that after merger talks had broken down, Sony was launching a hostile takeover bid.
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In 2000, the two exchanges agreed a merger plan which fell apart when the LSE received a rival, hostile bid from the Swedish OM exchange.
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The companies ended up discussing a steel joint venture and widening the co-operation into a full merger, but nobody in Germany has tried a high-profile hostile takeover since.
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All this forced Krupp first into talks with Thyssen about an agreed merger of the two companies' core steel businesses, and then into abandoning the hostile bid altogether, leaving a steel joint venture as the only option.
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