In the article, I point out that Carson Block has decided to go after a much larger and politically well-connected target in Focus Media compared to his past reverse-merger targets.

FORBES: The Story Behind Today's Earlier Bogus Sina Rumor

Other names that have been thrown out as potential merger targets are the CBOE (NASDAQ: CBOE), which has been an acquisition target since it went public in the summer of last year.

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Some merger investors make bets on potential acquisition targets before any deal is announced.

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Conservative AM Angela Burns raised concerns over the Welsh Government's failure to reach environment targets as she queried what part of the merger's business had addressed the problem.

BBC: Environment questions

Signs that foreign companies might be the primary targets of the law began to emerge in November, when a merger between two brewers, America's Anheuser-Busch and Belgium's InBev, was endorsed by Chinese regulators only on the condition that the combined firm's existing interest in several domestic breweries be frozen.

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