| Rep. Hinchey (D-NY) Calls For Government Takeover Of Refineries | | 2008-06-19 17:06:48 | | VIVA LA REVOLUCION!—Democrats Continue Their Plan to Takeover the Oil Industry!—
The socialist revolution in America continues…
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Video HotAirRep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), member of the House Appropriations Committee….”We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.”
Here again is the Democratic record on US energy–Over the past [...] | | By: Free Shared Mobile | | |
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| Deadline Expires For Yahoo To Accept Takeover | | 2008-04-27 18:33:00 | | A proxy battle is set to be staged for the vote by Yahoo shareholders in Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo Internet services.Microsoft offered Yahoo directors $31 dollars a share takeover offer on April 5 2008 ( SN reported) and the offer was refused by Yahoo board of directors because the offer 'greatly' undervalued the company. Source: news.yahoo.com | | By: Stroke News - We can change your life | | |
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| Microsoft issues takeover ultimatum to Yahoo | | 2008-04-07 01:46:23 | | Microsoft plans to take its takeover offer directly to Yahoo Inc shareholders if the internet firm’s management continues to refuse to negotiate, Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer said Saturday.
In a letter to Yahoo’s board and management, the chief of the software giant said that the $44.6-billion offer for Yahoo could be reduced, the Bloomberg [...]
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| Desktop Takeover - April fools joke using Flash | | 2008-04-01 13:40:00 | | This is a little trick I've pulled on some family members in the past and most recently on my boss for April Fools. All you need for this is a working version of Adobe Flash.If you cant see whats happening, basically the effect is that the desktop looks like its moving back and forth.So all I am doing here is tweening 2 instances of the desktop (which i Print Screened) over a static instance. Then all you do is full screen the SWF on your targets desktop. You can do a lot with this little gag including; hiding the users mouse, popping up text and moving icons at will.Back when GMail did their YouTube contest, i used this gag to simulate the envelope moving across multiple screens.A few things to remember when doing this are: Make sure your stage width and height are the same as the target monitor I use PNG's of the desktop so there is no quality loss Make sure you do View -> Full Screen and not just maximize the SWF* Update: Here are the source files of an example | | By: Jon Bishop's Blog | | |
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| Tibetans takeover town, raise flag | | 2008-03-19 12:13:26 | | More than 1,000 Tibetans, some on horseback, charged into a remote Chinese town, attacking a government building and hoisting their national flag, Canadian TV reported.CTV carried the dramatic footage of the mounted Tibetans, cheering wildly as they galloped into the unnamed town in Gansu province in China’s northwest, demanding, the report said, an independent Tibet.
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| Diebold Receives a Takeover Offer | | 2008-03-03 04:37:00 | | The United Technologies Corporation made public on Sunday an unsolicited $3 billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller machines and voting machines.United Technologies, which first approached Diebold two years ago, initially made the offer in private on Friday. The bid amounts to $40 a share in cash, or a 66 percent premium over Diebold's closing price on Friday of $24.12, United Technologies said.Several unsolicited or hostile offers have been made this year desp | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
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| EA in $2bn takeover bid for Take-Two | | 2008-02-25 09:42:00 | | Electronic Arts has launched a takeover bid that would enable it to retain its position as the world's biggest independent video game publisher.EA is offering $2bn cash for Take-Two, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series of games. Take-Two on Sunday night rejected the offer, saying the proposal "substantially undervalues" the company.©FT | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
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| Low Cost Airline Takeover Slashes 2008 Malta Flight Prices | | 2008-02-11 14:12:18 | | by Michael Johnson
As low cost flights to Malta started two years ago, one notable absentee for the battle of the skies was missing, Europe’s leading low cost airline easyJet.
Competition was keen between the airlines to take up the lucrative UK to Malta route, and Dublin based Ryanair was chosen over rivals easyJet to take up [...] | | By: travel and leisure articles | | |
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| Microsoft makes takeover bid for Yahoo | | 2008-02-03 15:20:48 | | An interesting battle is going on between the world’s major search engines…
You might have noticed that Google dominates online search, but Microsoft has a plan to knock Google from its top spot as Internet search leader. While analysts believe Yahoo will do everything in its power to remain independent, Microsoft is strongly encouraging Yahoo to [...] | | By: NZS.com Blog : New Zealand Internet and Web Space | | |
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| SocGen losses prompt BNP takeover talk | | 2008-01-26 00:16:42 | | The trading fraud that has cost French bank Societe Generale (SocGen) $7 billion could finally push it into the arms of spurned suitor and archrival BNP Paribas, bankers and analysts said.
SocGen said on Thursday that a single rogue trader had lost it 4.9 billion euros ($7.1 billion) and that the bank had conducted an emergency capital increase of 5.5 billion euros, shocking battered markets. | | By: Indian Stock Markets Revealed! | | |
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| Sime Darby Will Not Takeover Malaysia JV, Ford Said | | 2008-01-01 19:56:45 | | Ford Malaysia Sdn Bhd has recently denied reports stating that Ford Motor is planning to transfer its entire 49% stakes in Ford Malaysia to Sime Darby Bhd which holds the remaining percentage of the joint venture through its Tractors Malaysia Bhd unit.The automaker said, "Ford Malaysia wishes to clarify that there will not be any transfer of Ford Motor's 49% equity stake in Ford Malaysia to Sime Darby upon the potential dissolution of the joint venture company, Ford Malaysia."Sime Darby and Ford | | By: Ford Parts Information | | |
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| SB&T International to takeover Mimansa Jewellery | | 2007-12-18 01:47:00 | | The board of SB&T International, at its meeting on Dec. 17, decided to cancel the amalgamation of Mimansa Jewellery with the company.Instead, the company will takeover the business and brand of Mimansa Jewellery with the issue of 5 lakh equity shares to the shareholders of Mimansa Jewellery in proportion of shares held by them. The board also decided to issue 1.8 million equity share warrants on preferential basis to investors at a price of Rs 40.00. Shares of SB&T International Ltd. were last trading down Rs 2.3, or 4.94% at Rs 44.3. The total volume of shares traded at the BSE was 7,260 (Tuesday, 12.38 p.m.). | | By: Indian stock markets | | |
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| Hardline takeover of British mosques | | 2007-09-09 19:20:00 | | Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.Riyadh ul Haq, who supports armed jihad and preaches contempt for Jews, Christians and Hindus, is in line to become the spiritual leader of the Deobandi sect in Britain. The ultra-conservative movement, which gave birth to the Taleban in Afghanistan, now runs more than 600 of Britain’s 1,350 mosques. | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Google Yahoo Eyeing Rediff for takeover | | 2007-07-25 19:41:41 | | Hindustan times reports that Rediff which is India's largest homegrown portal and ranked 5th overall in India by Alexa is seeing speculation that it is in talks with both google and yahoo for buyout.Both the companies are bullish on India with Google CEO even predicting that India will be world's largest internet market.Rediff has been heavily criticized in the past for trying out too many things and not having a clear focus it tries out too many things at the same time.Leading US-based investment journal Barrons reported this month that Rediff is seeing speculation that it could be a takeover target. Rediff’s stock has witnessed a sharp jump in share price and volume on Nasdaq over the past week, when it also launched a Website to help consumers upload voice, video and photographic content for free.The company has a current market capitalisation of $738 million.If the deal comes through, the valuation may be close to a billion US dollars.The Barrons report quoted Ashish Thadani, a | | By: Marketing & technology in India | | |
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| Sears Takeover of Macy's Speculation
The Sears (S... | | 2007-07-08 07:53:00 | | Sears Takeover of Macy's SpeculationThe Sears (SHLD) takeover rumors are heating up again with Macy's being the target of speculation this time around."Now investors are speculating that Lampert, a billionaire hedge-fund operator who acquired Kmart in 2003 and Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 2005, might be involved, according to the Associated Press. ""The takeover rumor was doing the rounds a couple of weeks ago," Andrew Wilkinson, senior market analyst at Interactive Brokers Group, told the AP. "I don't think (Edward Lampert)'s name was attached before, but now someone has thrown that one out there."Direct Link
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| CANADA: Algoma to OK takeover bid | | 2007-06-12 11:02:00 | | Northern Ontario steelmaker Algoma Steel Inc. will hold its last annual meeting as a publicly traded Canadian company today as shareholders are expected to rubber stamp the industrial company’s $1.85 billion takeover by Essar Global Ltd., one of a series of takeovers that have put Canadian steel producers in the hands of foreign buyers. Algoma will hold its annual and special meeting in a Toronto hotel 10 days ahead of its earlier planned June 21 date. The company expects to easily get the two-thirds approval by shareholders needed after Essar cleared the last regulatory hurdles for the friendly takeover earlier this month. The merger has been cleared by the federal Competition Bureau and received Investment Canada Act approval, the last regulatory nod needed for completion of the deal. A subsidiary of Essar made the cash offer in May.The Chronicle HeraldsteelPUT Your ADVERTASING Here | | By: energy BLOG | | |
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| RUSSIA: New fears of state takeover of BP gas field | | 2007-06-06 16:23:00 | | Vladimir Putin turned up the pressure on Britain's biggest company yesterday saying it was intolerable that BP and its local partners were "doing nothing" to meet their obligations by fully developing Kovykta, a huge gas field in Siberia.The president's words will increase fears within BP that the state could try to effectively take over its Russian business by buying up a half share in the TNK-BP joint venture."I would like to stress that the [Kovykta] field has reserves of three trillion cubic metres. To understand its importance for our country, it is equal to almost all reserves of Canada," said Mr Putin in an interview posted on his website, www.kremlin.ru. "But if members of the consortium are doing nothing to meet licence obligations, how much longer do we have to tolerate this?" BP has come under increasing pressure over Kovykta with allegations that the operating company it controls is not meeting the levels of gas supplies it promised. There had been speculation that the st | | By: energy BLOG | | |
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| RUSSIA: Rosneft seals takeover of Yukos | | 2007-05-11 15:20:00 | | by Catherine Belton Rosneft snapped up the last production unit belonging to Yukos for a steep discount in a bankruptcy auction on Thursday, sealing the state-run oil major’s takeover of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s empire, once Russia’s biggest. Rosneft beat the only other bidder to pay $6.43bn for the Samaraneftegaz unit and three refineries in a 10-minute auction.The sole remaining major Yukos | | By: energy BLOG | | |
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| EUROPE: RWE Shares Jump on Report That EDF Plans Takeover | | 2007-05-11 13:24:00 | | by Thom Rose
Shares of RWE AG, Germany's second- largest utility, rose the most in four years on speculation Electricite de France SA plans to buy the company, which has a market value of 45.8 billion euros ($61.7 billion). Electricite de France representatives have already met with the German government to discuss the proposed deal, German radio station SWR said. RWE has seen | | By: energy BLOG | | |
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