Corus faces head-to-head auction
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A behind-closed-doors auction is taking place to win a takeover of Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus.
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The firm that owns the Philadelphia Inquirer says it is interested in mounting a rival bid for the Dow Jones.
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Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus will merge with Tata Steel next month once the Indian company's shareholders approve the 13.7-billion-dollar takeover, Tata said Saturday.
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Attempts by competing Indian and Brazilian steelmakers to acquire a big British-Dutch producer, the Corus Group, turned into a bidding war on Monday.
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Cameron Mathison is putting himself up for auction.
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LONDON/MUMBAI  - Brazilian steelmaker CSN  has agreed to buy Anglo-Dutch rival Corus Group  for 4.9 billion pounds ($9.6 billion) in cash, trumping an offer agreed only hours earlier with India's Tata Steel .
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Inside a midtown hotel, Larry Fischer is on his cell phone with a financial backer as his partner Ari Goldberger does quick research on a laptop computer. They are bidding furiously at this auction of Internet domain names, with hopes of snagging megayachts.com. The duo won't be deterred. They want this name.
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Indian firm Tata Steel says it is considering making a takeover bid for Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus.
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India's Tata Steel  and Corus Group Plc  have agreed an increased takeover offer, valuing the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker at 500 pence per share, the firms said on Sunday.
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India's Tata Steel  raised a  bid for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus  to an agreed 4.7  billion pounds ($9.2 billion) on Sunday as it seeks to head off  a potential counterbid from Brazil's CSN .
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Brazilian steelmaker CSN  said on Monday it had agreed to buy Anglo-Dutch rival Corus  for 4.9 billion pounds ($9.6 billion), trumping an offer from India's Tata Steel  announced only hours before.
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Phelps Dodge Corp.  raised its  bid for Inco Ltd.  on Sunday and Inco raised its offer  for Falconbridge Ltd. , as the companies battled to  protect their proposed US&#36;41 billion three-way merger and  create the biggest mining company in North America.
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A fresh bidding war for Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus has erupted when Brazilian group CSN offered about 5.8 billion pounds (8.6 billion euros, 11.3 billion dollars) shortly after Corus had accepted a lower bid from Tata Steel of India.
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Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus said it had accepted a revised take-over bid from Tata Steel of India worth 5.7 billion pounds including debt (8.4 billion euros, 11.1 billion dollars).
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Mike Arrington is doing a great job of laying out the options for Yahoo wrt Microsoft's offer to buy them out. He's written two pieces that helped put it together for me. Mike clearly has great sources in the investment banking community and among potential buyers of Yahoo, and is actively talking with them. He's got a business lawyer's mind and, as you know I'm sure, he's spent the last few years immersed in web applications.  Bottom-line: Yahoo's three choices are: 1. Tough it out alone. 2. Sell advertising rights to Google. 3. Accept Microsoft's offer.  Mike argues that option 1 would result in shareholder lawsuits and in the end would get Yahoo nowhere because they'd end up selling to Microsoft eventually. Option 2 would enable them to pay a major cash dividend to their shareholders, making up for the lost windfall coming from Microsoft's offer. Options 2 and 3 have the risk of being rejected by government regulators.  Now, as a member of Yahoo's developer community, and generally a respector of Yahoo (is that a word) -- I say take the deal. I don't think Yahoo has ever had leadership that has been up to navigating the treacherous waters of tech industry economics and politics. At least with the Microsoft acquisition they would get one -- Ray Ozzie. He's a guy you can sit across the table from and plot something out and he can deliver. I've had many good meetings with Yahoo people, but rarely have they resulted in action. From my own selfish point of view, Microsoft owning Yahoo might mean that Ray makes more trips to the Bay Area (figuratively) and when he sits down, we can talk about new open interfaces and developer programs for Yahoo properties. I've read most of the commentary on the Yahoo deal, and the other piece that made an impression was Mark Cuban's. He says that Yahoo should accept the Microsoft deal because it would give them the breathing room they need re Wall Street. He argues that the market has always allowed Microsoft to sink resources into developing markets, and that's exactly what Yahoo needs to become the organization that it has been trying to be. Instead, the market treats Yahoo as a comp to Google, but Yahoo doesn't have the economics of Google, so that's, long-term, a losing battle.  There's one more reason I think Yahoo should sell to Microsoft -- the fatigue of the people. The company has been wobbly too long. If they don't take the Microsoft offer it's going to be a long wobbly decline and the shareholders will be right to be angry. Here's their chance to get out, it's time, so just do it.
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The buyout for the ice manufacturer is on the rocks.
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Brazilian steel firm CSN wants to make a rival bid for Corus before the Anglo-Dutch group's shareholders meet on December 4 to consider an offer from India's Tata Steel.