Then there is Montvale Technologies, which the SEC says had its shares rise by 75 percent on increased volume of 500% in a single day last December even though the company announced its own dissolution months earlier.

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To eliminate any conflicts of interests, Ellison's shares have been placed in a "lockbox" or voting trust, that will eliminate Ellison's voting control over company matters "other than a change of control transaction, dissolution, sale of substantially all of the Company's assets or liquidation" as long as Ellison remains an officer or director of Oracle, according to regulatory filings.

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To eliminate any conflicts of interests, Ellison's shares have been placed in a "lockbox" or voting trust, that will eliminate Ellison's voting control over company matters "other than a change of control transaction, dissolution, sale of substantially all of the Company's assets or liquidation" as long as Ellison remains an officer or director of Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), according to regulatory filings.

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The uprising was ruthlessly put down, but the shock it provoked in London brought about the dissolution of the East India Company and the establishment of the British Raj.

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