The unexpectedly strong shareholder support for telefonica's bid suggests that the Spanish firm is offering far too much.

支持西班牙电信投标的出乎意料的强劲股东暗示西班牙公司出的价太高。

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The creditors are likely to make a rival bid that would, like the other offer, lead to GM’s eventual reacquisition of parts of a firm that it spun-off in 1999.

债主们可能会成为竞标对手，如1999年的一项拍卖，这将会导致通用最终对公司的份资产进行重购，让其十分头痛。

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In 2006 the two sparred when Mr Samuelsson launched a hostile bid for Scania, a Swedish truck firm.

早在2006年这两个人就萨缪尔森针对瑞典卡车公司斯坎尼亚的收购案的反对态度进行过一次交锋。

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Industry players rejected a bid by Chinese firm Huawei to acquire Nortel in 2008 because of business intel concerns.

FORBES: China Mobile Internet Co To Invest In U.S.

Iran's state petrochemicals firm bid eagerly for Basell only to lose when America objected.

ECONOMIST: Plastics and petrochemicals

If a big technology firm bid successfully for, say, .cloud, consumers might come to associate cloud computing with that company above others.

ECONOMIST: Internet domain names