Hedge funds have even tracked corporate jets, whose routings might reveal executives heading off for merger talks.
Nada and Foo also worked closely with Tudou during its merger talks with Youku, Foo says.
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MetroPCS shares fell 6%, after surging 18% on Tuesday on news of merger talks.
In February this year, SMG broke off merger talks with Ulster TV (UTV), operator of TalkSport.
And merger talks last year between Clearnet and the London Clearing House came to nothing.
Indeed Bass and Starwood recently held extensive merger talks, which broke down over price.
The message implied that after merger talks had broken down, Sony was launching a hostile takeover bid.
On July 14th Kirin and Suntory, two big Japanese brewers, announced that they are in merger talks.
Whitehaven Coal climbed 1.2% after the mining company said it's in early-stage merger talks with rival Aston Resources, which gained 4.2%.
The deal was abandoned when SKB entered merger talks with Glaxo Wellcome.
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But the merger talks then became bogged down by wranglings between their respective governments after the deal became public on 12 September.
More than once it has signalled merger talks, but failed to deliver.
After the failure of its alliance with American Airlines, British Airways is now rumoured to be interested in reviving its merger talks with KLM.
This erratic stock movement was due in part to a back and forth over whether it's actively engaged in merger talks with JPMorgan Chase.
We don't really know anything about these merger talks at all.
If so, then Hypo deliberately misled Vereinsbank during their merger talks.
Commodities trader Glencore and mining outfit Xstrata are engaged in merger talks, with a formal deal expected to be hammered out as early as next week.
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This could be one reason why the two companies are reportedly in merger talks - a deal that could have antitrust regulators crawling all over it.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that merger talks between the Barry Diller-backed news site and the newsweekly, recently purchased by stereo equipment mogul Sidney Harman, are off.
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The statement came two days after BoS threatened to pull out of the merger talks if a rival bid for Abbey from Lloyds TSB was not referred to the Competition Commission.
When Granada and Carlton announced last week that they were in advanced merger talks, advertisers said they were worried that the new company would be able to force up prices for TV airtime.
Deutsche and Dresdner have discussed a merger before, but talks were abandoned at a late stage.
More consolidation beckoned in the airline industry as British Airways and Spain's Iberia said they were holding talks about a merger.
In 1998, talks about a merger with London-based rival Universal fell through.
Even as talks about a merger advanced, Mr. Harman had reservations about handing over the reins of his new property to a strong-willed editor who reported to another boss in Mr. Diller, said people familiar with his thinking.
Dr McSorley, who will step down in March, said the talks could lead to a full merger of the trusts.
Gregarious and charismatic, Pierce talks to everybody she knows about merger candidates, phoning venture capitalists, chatting up customers--even asking employees to name the companies they fear most.
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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