Posts tagged EA-Take-Two

Take-Two spent $11 million preventing EA takeover

by Alexander Sliwinski (Dec 22nd 2008 5:20PM)

Security and Exchange Commission filings by Take-Two reveal the publisher spent $11.1 million to keep Electronic Arts at bay during its seven-month-long takeover attempt. Gamespot reports that Take-Two incurred the costs during the "strategic review process" of the EA offer. For better or worse ...

EA extends Take-Two offer to July 18

by Justin McElroy (Jun 17th 2008 9:05AM)

CAST LIST: Lloyd Dobler - EA Diane Court - Take-Two DIANE: Just go home, Lloyd! LLOYD: I can't! I've been standing out here with this boom box over my head since March 13! DIANE: And you look ridiculous. The batteries died in mid-April, which is ironically when you first told me you would give up ...

EA extends Take-Two purchase offer deadline a third time

by Ludwig Kietzmann (May 19th 2008 9:25AM)

Super mega-huge publisher EA has announced a third extension of its tender offer for all outstanding shares of common Take-Two stock, pushing the previous deadline, which quietly passed by last Friday without so much as a hello, to 11:59PM EST on June 16, 2008. EA notes that as of 5:00PM EST on ...