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American Greetings Founders to Take Struggling Firm Private

Posted: April 2, 2013 at 7:00 am

American Greetings Corp. (NYSE: AM) has surrendered to the fact that the age of the paper card are over. The company never created a business online to make up for ...
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Battle over Telecom Merger Enters the Endgame

Posted: April 1, 2013 at 9:10 am

A week from Friday, a special meeting of shareholders of MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) will vote on a proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, a division of Deutsche Telekom. Metro’s ...
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Michael Dell — Opportunist Without Loyalty

Posted: April 1, 2013 at 6:40 am

Michael Dell may walk out on his partnership with Silver Lake, a marriage created to make a leveraged buyout (LBO) of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), to join a rival bid ...
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Going Private — an Option for China’s Solar Companies?

Posted: March 28, 2013 at 11:40 am

Chinese for-profit education company Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (NYSE: AMBO) got some bad news earlier this week. A proposed buyout by private equity firm Barings Asia Private Equity Fund V ...
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Michael Dell Could Team with Blackstone

Posted: March 28, 2013 at 7:00 am

Michael Dell may not lose his job, even if his partnership with private equity firm Silver Lake Partners does not result in the intended takeover of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). ...
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The Sound and the Fury — Dell vs. Hurd

Posted: March 22, 2013 at 2:33 pm

The board of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) set a “go-shop” deadline for one minute after midnight tonight to see if the company could entice a bidder to compete with Dell ...
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Mark Hurd Moving to Dell?

Posted: March 21, 2013 at 7:00 am

If Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) can top an buyout offer by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners to buy Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), the private equity firm may have ...
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One Last Look at Time Inc. Spin Out

Posted: March 21, 2013 at 6:47 am

by Jon Friedman It didn't take long for Time Warner's stockholders to see the wisdom of the company's decision earlier this month to spin off the Time Inc. publishing unit. ...
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More Attempts to Block the Clearwire Buyout on the Cheap

Posted: March 20, 2013 at 9:25 am

Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) is facing yet another attempt to block the Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) buyout as part of the Softbank deal. A group called Crest Financial is ...
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Why a New Dell Buyout?

Posted: March 20, 2013 at 6:22 am

Financial firm Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) may make a offer to take Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) private, an offer that would be higher than one from Michael Dell and Silver Lake. ...
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STMicroelectronics Wins as Ericsson Loses in Joint Venture Wind Down

Posted: March 18, 2013 at 11:35 am

STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) is winning while Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is losing on news that the two companies have agreed to split up their unprofitable joint venture. Some assets will be taken by ...
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Beyond Citadel, There Is Long-Term Value in E*Trade

Posted: March 14, 2013 at 11:05 am

It is probably of little comfort to existing shareholders that Citadel Investment Group is selling its remaining stake in E*Trade Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC). The near 10% stake will pressure ...
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MetroPCS Defends its Plans to Merge with T-Mobile

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 12:13 pm

Shares of MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) jumped to a 52-week high of $14.51 the day last October when the company announced its proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, which is ...
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The U.K. Looks into the HP Buyout of Autonomy

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 7:00 am

The never-ending battle over the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) buyout of Autonomy continues. HP took a $5 billion write-off less than a year after the deal. It seems that the ...
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Dell, Icahn Go Behind Closed Doors

Posted: March 11, 2013 at 9:10 am

In a terse press release this morning, Carl Icahn’s Icahn Enterprises L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP) said that it has entered a confidentiality agreement with Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and “looks forward ...
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