Billions were wiped off Siemens's market value. Employees were panicked into trying to buy a blocking minority stake to save the pride of corporate Germany from the risk of a hostile takeover.

西门子的市值蒸发了数十亿美元，公司员工陷入恐慌，试图收购公司的关键少数股份，使其摆脱被恶意收购的风险，来挽救这家德国公司的尊严。

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Not long after its interest was out in the open, however, BSkyB bought a 18% blocking stake in the company.

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Branson had already been irked when Sky bought a 17.9% blocking stake in British commercial broadcaster ITV, effectively dashing any hopes he'd harbored for buying the company.

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That cosy relationship with Lower Saxony (whose blocking stake the European Commission is seeking to remove) might become a burden if VW needed to make swift cuts to maintain profitability.

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