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EA Launches 'Hostile' Bid for GTA Publisher

Games news sites are reporting that EA has issued a new offering to Take-Two's shareholders in an attempt to purchase the company outright. Last month EA offered some $2 billion to Take-Two in an effort to accomplish the same goal. Take-Two declined, and EA took their offer public. Now, Electronic Arts is offering the price of some $26 per share to Take-Two's holders, a generous valuation. "Within ten business days Take-Two is required by law to publish, send or give to shareholders (and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission), a statement as to whether it recommends acceptance or rejection of the latest offer ... Since EA launched its February bid Take-Two said that other parties had approached it regarding a merger, but that it hadn't entered into negotiations with other companies about a deal."

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  1. Re:FRIST POEM by easyTree · · Score: 0, Troll

    Make my grave shape of heart so like a flower be free aired
                  & handsome felt,
    Grave root pillow, tung up from grave & wigle at
                  blown up clowd.
    Ear turnes close to underlayer of green felt moss & sound
                  of rain dribble thru this layer
                  down to the roots that will tickle my ear.
    Hay grave, my toes need cutting so file away
                  in sound curve or
    Garbage grave, way above my head, blood will soon
                  trickle in my ear -
                  no choise but the grave, so cat & sheep are daisey
                  turned.
    Train will tug my grave, my breath hueing gentil vapor
                  between weel & track.
    So kitten string & ball, jumpe over this mound so
                  gently & cutely
    So my toe can curl & become a snail & go curiousely
                  on its way.

    Peter Orlovsky
    1958 NYC

    http://boppin.com/orlovsky.html