{"id":1309,"date":"2008-05-19T14:32:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/6faf7deda27b891d5ff975074a2f1454"},"modified":"2008-05-19T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:32:56","slug":"ea-deadline-on-take-two-passes-19-billion-wont-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"EA deadline on Take-Two passes &#8211; $1.9 Billion won&#8217;t do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deadline set by US video game giant Electronic Arts for shareholders in Take-Two Interactive Software to accept a $1.9bn offer has passed. EA revealed its unsolicited $25.74 a share move for Take-Two, the owner of Grand Theft Auto, back in February. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Take-Two&#39;s board had refused to discuss a takeover with EA before the 29 April launch of &#8220;Grand Theft Auto IV.&#8221; Take-Two saw its stock close at $27.10 on the Nasdaq, down 0.8% but 5.2% above the $25.74 per share offered by EA. &#8220;The market&#39;s probably suggesting that EA should come up with a few more dollars and that may be a likely a scenario,&#8221; said Colin Sebastian, an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadline set by US video game giant Electronic Arts for shareholders in Take-Two Interactive Software to accept a $1.9bn offer has passed. EA revealed its unsolicited $25.74 a share move for Take-Two, the owner of Grand Theft Auto, back in February. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Take-Two&#39;s board had refused to discuss a takeover with EA before the 29 April launch of &#8220;Grand Theft Auto IV.&#8221; Take-Two saw its stock close at $27.10 on the Nasdaq, down 0.8% but 5.2% above the $25.74 per share offered by EA. &#8220;The market&#39;s probably suggesting that EA should come up with a few more dollars and that may be a likely a scenario,&#8221; said Colin Sebastian, an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}