{"id":639,"date":"2008-03-13T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/27409144363020524fbdf1f21245ac4a"},"modified":"2008-03-13T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T14:15:29","slug":"electronic-arts-launches-tender-offer-for-take-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Arts launches tender offer for Take-Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts on Thursday launched a tender offer for rival video game maker Take-Two Interactive at $26 a share, indicating its $2 billion bid is turning hostile. EA&#39;s tender offer will expire at midnight on April 11, but could be extended. Take-Two&#39;s annual meeting is scheduled for April 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We believe Take-Two investors will see our tender offer as the best way to maximize the value of their investment in Take-Two,&#8221; EA Chief Executive John Riccitiello said in a statement. Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick has said the bid was &#8220;the wrong price and the wrong time,&#8221; arguing that EA was trying to buy his company on the cheap just before the April 29 launch of &#8220;Grand Theft Auto 4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts on Thursday launched a tender offer for rival video game maker Take-Two Interactive at $26 a share, indicating its $2 billion bid is turning hostile. EA&#39;s tender offer will expire at midnight on April 11, but could be extended. Take-Two&#39;s annual meeting is scheduled for April 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We believe Take-Two investors will see our tender offer as the best way to maximize the value of their investment in Take-Two,&#8221; EA Chief Executive John Riccitiello said in a statement. Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick has said the bid was &#8220;the wrong price and the wrong time,&#8221; arguing that EA was trying to buy his company on the cheap just before the April 29 launch of &#8220;Grand Theft Auto 4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=639\">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-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}