United Technologies Raises Kidde Offer to $2.67 Bln
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United Technologies Corp., which wants to buy Kidde Plc to add fire equipment to its Chubb security unit&#39;s offerings, raised its bid for the company by about 3 percent to 1.38 billion pounds ($2.67 billion), Kidde said.
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Shares in United Airlines' parent company, UAL Corp., rose yesterday following a published report that it has retained Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to explore strategic options, including possible mergers with other carriers.
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US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer has raised his stake in Manchester United to 25.3 per cent, boosting speculation he plans to bid for the world&#39;s richest soccer club.
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Britain's Manchester United Plc said on  Tuesday U.S. financier Malcolm Glazer has raised his stake in  the world's richest soccer club to 27.63 percent from 25.3  percent, heightening speculation that he could bid for the  team.
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Eli Lilly &amp; Co. bumped up its offer for ICOS Corp. by 6 percent, to $34 per share, or $2.3 billion yesterday in advance of a vote on the deal .
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Shareholders in Kidde, the fire protection group, have indicated they would be prepared to sell out if United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the US industrial conglomerate
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Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison raised his company&#39;s offer for rival PeopleSoft Inc. to $24 a share, or $9.2 billion, calling the fifth bid over a 17-month takeover battle the &quot;best and final&quot; offer.
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NetSuite set the initial price of its stock at $26, exceeding its original estimate of $13 to $16 per share.
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United States engineering giant UTC has vowed to battle on in its attempts to buy fire extinguisher maker Kidde. The group, whose Â£1.
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LONDON/BOSTON  - United Technologies Corp. UTX.N  agreed on Thursday to acquire Britain's Kidde Plc KID.L for  $2.8 billion in cash in a deal aimed at expanding the U.S.  conglomerate's security system business.
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SHARES in Kidde soared more than 17 per cent yesterday after it emerged that the fire equipment group had rejected an indicative Â£1.
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UK fire equipment manufacturer Kidde agrees a Â£1.4bn takeover by US manufacturer United Technologies.
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LONDON - Manchester United have received a bid approach that boosted their shares yesterday and fanned talk that American sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer is planning a bid likely to top Â£650 million (S$2 billion).
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Business & money: Shares in the internet company rise further after it says Â£21bn unsolicited offer is too low
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United Technologies (UTC), the parent company of security product manufacturer and integrator Chubb, is making an offer to purchase fire and safety product manufacturer Kidde plc.
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Fire equipment manufacturer Kidde saw its share price rise by 20% on Friday after it confirmed it had rejected a Â£1.35bn ($2.46bn) takeover offer.
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NetSuite on Wednesday set the initial price of its stock at $26, greatly exceeding its original estimate.The company is selling 6.2 million shares of stock. It said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the proceeds from the sale would net it $151.9 million after expenses.NetSuite, which sells a line of hosted business software, company initially set the suggested price range for its stock at $13 to $16, and&#160;subsequently raised it&#160;to $16 to $19 and&#160;then $19 to $22. The stock is now trading on New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &quot;N.&quot; After rising to $39.01, shares had dropped to $25.76 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.The company set the price by running an&#160;online &quot;Dutch&quot; auction, in the same fashion of search giant Google, instead of having underwriters set the price.Scott Sweet, managing director of IPOboutique.com, a firm that tracks the IPO market and offers investment advice, said NetSuite is greatly overvalued as a result of the auction.&quot;Once again the Dutch auction concept failed to live up to its self-described mantra as being a better conduit in the pricing of an IPO by the investors than the standard method of pricing by the underwriters,&quot; he said in an e-mail message Thursday. &quot;In past Dutch auction deals, and it appears the same in this case, investors put in overzealous high bids to &#39;beat&#39; others in a scramble to get shares. In doing so, it is highly likely that it has greatly diminished the IPO&#39;s performance and highly overvalued the company.&quot;NetSuite has said it plans to use proceeds from its IPO to pay off an $8 million balance on a line of credit with Tako Ventures, an entity controlled by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and to possibly make acquisitions.Ellison controls about 60 percent of NetSuite&#39;s outstanding stock -- some 31.9 million shares.NetSuite said Wednesday that Ellison has now completed the transfer of those shares into a holding company, NetSuite Restricted Holdings. The move is meant to &quot;effectively eliminate&quot; Ellison&#39;s voting power and avoid potential conflicts of interests, NetSuite said.