News tagged with takeover bid

China's Alibaba raising $3bn for Yahoo! stake: report

Chinese online commerce giant Alibaba plans to borrow $3 billion to buy back the stake Yahoo! owns in the company, a report said Thursday, as the struggling US Internet firm overhauls its Asia holdings.

Technology / Business

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Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns, shares jump (Update)

Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo! nearly 17 years ago and had an ill-fated stint as chief executive, abruptly resigned from all of his positions with the struggling Internet company.

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Activist buys up stake in Yahoo, slams board

(AP) -- An activist investment fund disclosed Thursday that it has bought a 5.2 percent stake in troubled Web portal Yahoo Inc. and called for sweeping changes to the board.

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Israeli generic drug giant Teva to buy Cephalon

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest generic drug maker, will buy US biopharma firm Cephalon in a $6.8 billion deal, the companies said in a joint statement Monday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

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Japan Livedoor tycoon Horie to be jailed

Japan's brash Livedoor Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie will be jailed after losing his final appeal against a conviction for accounting fraud, a judicial official said Tuesday.

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Tenet, Community Health fight gets nasty

(AP) -- Tenet Healthcare has charged rival hospital operator Community Health Systems with systematically bilking Medicare, and the burgeoning legal fight sent shares of the entire sector sliding Monday.

Medicine & Health / Health

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LinkedIn looks to link up with investors with IPO

LinkedIn Corp., the company behind the largest website for professional networking, plans to raise at least $175 million in an initial public offering of stock that could open the IPO floodgates for other ...

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Yahoo's holiday trimming cuts work force 4 pct

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is reducing its work force 4 percent as it hands out 600 layoff notices for the holidays.

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3Par calls HP $30 bid 'superior'; Dell mulls reply

(AP) -- Data storage company 3Par Inc. says its board has determined that Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $2 billion, $30-per-share takeover bid is superior to a rival offer from Dell Inc., but Dell said Saturday it was mulling over ...

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Yahoo director to step down at end of year

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. director Maggie Wilderotter plans to step down from the slumping Internet company's board at the end of this year. The resignation will leave Yahoo with 11 directors.

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Broadcom files patent infringement suit against Emulex

US computer chip company Broadcom filed a patent infringement suit on Monday against Emulex, two months after dropping a hostile takeover offer for its rival.

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Microsoft bond issue sparks takeover rumors

Microsoft launched its first bond issue on Monday, sparking rumors the US software giant was contemplating a takeover bid.

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Microsoft, Yahoo! in search, ad talks

Microsoft and Yahoo! have held "early discussions" about possible Internet search and advertising partnerships, a leading Silicon Valley technology website reported on Friday.

Technology / Internet

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IBM cuts Sun takeover price: WSJ

IBM has cut the price of its takeover bid for Sun Microsystems Inc. to nine to 10 dollars a share from 10 to 11 dollars a share, The Wall Street Journal online reported on Thursday.

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