Activision countersued, alleging that the men had held secret talks with Electronic Arts.
As dean of the College of Cardinals, the influential Cardinal Sodano guided cardinals in secret talks leading up to the conclave.
The leaders of the three communities have held secret talks on ways to redraw the map, but they have not got close to agreement.
It was revealed that Mr Badawi's predecessor, Mahathir Mohamad, had been brokering secret talks between Thai officials and southern separatists even before Mr Thaksin's downfall.
Secret talks between Turkey and Armenia to open diplomatic ties and reopen their borders are hotly opposed by some in the Armenian diaspora's lobby in America.
Until last summer Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development (AK) party had been holding secret talks with the PKK in Oslo and with its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
In 2011 the US began secret talks with the Taliban in Qatar, but the Taliban pulled out in March, accusing the Americans of continuously changing their positions.
Sources in Kabul say he and his envoys have been involved in secret talks with the Afghan president in Kabul, his representatives in southern Afghanistan and outside the country.
The Kop also cheered Benitez after revelations that American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett had held secret talks with Jurgen Klinsmann to line him up as a potential successor to the Spaniard.
Earlier this season, it was reported that former Stuttgart midfielder Hleb, 26, held secret talks with Inter while in the city ahead of Arsenal's Champions League game against rivals AC Milan at the San Siro.
When Mr Nkomo was released from prison he took part in secret talks with Mr Smith and, it was claimed, accepted a deal which would have brought him into government but excluded the more militant Mr Mugabe.
Between 2009 and 2011, high-level secret talks took place between the PKK and the Turkish government in Oslo, Norway, but they collapsed after a clash between Turkish soldiers and the PKK in June 2011, in which 14 Turkish soldiers were killed.
In the past year Turkish intelligence men and diplomats have held secret talks with Nechirvan Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish region's prime minister, to get the PKK to call off its fight, even as Turkish aircraft continue, with America's blessing, to pound rebel strongholds near Iraq's mountain border with Iran.
It also emerged in recent weeks that the Orange Order convened secret unity talks between the DUP and UUP in early December.
Until late June, Boehner had managed to keep these talks secret from Cantor.
Meanwhile, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is expected to raise the issue of "secret" prisons in talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on Tuesday.
The outcome might have been different had talks remained secret until all the details were worked out, but once the world knew a mega-merger was in the works, the stakeholder governments dug in their heels and that was that.
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It probably talks to a secret hope or fear that the story was true but there were also elements of the story that have been played out many times in sport.
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We won't know unless and until somebody talks about what the actual secret is.
The agenda is secret, and the meeting is one of regularly scheduled talks they have with the regulators to discuss the settlement.
Details of what she and outgoing PM Ehud Olmert have offered the Palestinians remain secret and there has been no concrete evidence of progress after a year of talks.
From 4 March, the cardinals will meet for talks at which they will set a date for the start of the secret election, or conclave.
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