Then there is the stock of the acquiring company, which often sees its price decline on the announcement.
The acquiring company likely has designs on using the service to support its at-home DVD burning technology QFlix.
The governor also stressed that prices should reflect fair value so that the acquiring company's financial position is not weakened.
After a takeover bid is made, the shares of the acquiring company routinely fall while the shares of the target company rise.
It is unclear what the acquiring company will do with the technology.
If an offer is made, you will need to evaluate the acquiring company to determine if it makes sense to follow the merger to completion.
Typically, an acquiring company is not liable for the debts or liabilities of a company from which it buys assets, but there are big exceptions.
The two went to work for their acquiring company but they had a vision for a multi-player mobile gaming community that SK Group could not see.
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There may be a smaller vendor among these dozens whose technology is just as solid and whose vision and culture is better aligned with the acquiring company.
Sure, the stock of an acquiring company may go down a little bit but not nearly as much as it would if the company made massive capital investments.
Besides, since the acquiring company was private, any stock given to our employees would come with an income tax liability that could not be paid by selling non-public stock.
Indeed, if recent studies are right, most big mergers fail to produce the promised benefits, and many destroy huge amounts of value for the acquiring company and its shareholders.
But what of the role of the investment bankers who advised companies to acquire and merge, despite a wealth of academic evidence that mergers destroy value for shareholders in the acquiring company?
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One can only speculate what Flickr would be today if its acquiring company had been more understanding of how cameras in mobile phones would change the way photos are shared.
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Ordinarily in a mega takeover, the shares of the acquiring company sell off after the completion of the deal as some shareholders of the acquired company dump their new stock.
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Big acquisitions in general are fraught with a terrible track record especially big ones that are the biggest ever by far for the acquiring company as is the case here.
"If the market doesn't like the deal, then the acquiring company's stock price is likely to fall, so that investor would probably need to wait and see if he or she could exit at a better price given a little time, " Millstone says.
Last Friday, Groupon shares spiked on a wacky rumor that Google was considering acquiring the company.
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Now she and her founders own stock at the acquiring parent company.
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It typically reviews deals before they are completed, but Huawei didn't seek approval to buy the 3Leaf assets, saying it didn't think it needed to because it wasn't acquiring the company outright.
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In terms of acquiring another company for the sake of clearing up existing issues, a distribution breakthrough in any BRIC country would do a world of good for Apple by boosting share prices and easing an area of investor concern.
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The company began trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2004 after acquiring a listed company.
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Acquiring a foreign company brings a different set of challenges.
The bottom line: Acquiring a manufacturing company is a big test for Google and for entrepreneurial companies that seek to expand into business activities that require more conformity and less creativity.
Cemex said the lower forecast included the impact of acquiring building materials company Rinker Group, as well as the sale of some U.S. assets to its joint venture Ready Mix USA, as well as the confiscation of its Venezuelan assets as of Aug. 1.
Moreover, as we have all seen time and again, the process surrounding acquiring a public company from start to finish is complex, uncertain, intrusive and distracting, and we believe it would be especially so to the creative artists at the core of our business and to all those who may be displaced by a transaction.
Last year the company entered the Indonesian market by acquiring PT Tozy Sentosa, the holding company for the Centro department stores and the Kem Chicks gourmet supermarkets, from owners Suzy Darmawan and Hutomo Santoso.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the company grew by acquiring several other baking outfits across the U.S. By 1995, the company had changed its name to IBC, and purchased its largest rival, Continental Baking Co.
He spent the 1990s turning US Filter into the world's largest water company by acquiring hundreds of smaller outfits.
W. Bush stopped a Chinese aero-technology company from acquiring a U.S. manufacturing firm.
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