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Like most Q&A sites on the Web, Answers.com strikes us as a strange sort of cross between Wikipedia, Facebook and those guys playing trivia games down at the corner bar. On a recent visit to the website, we learned the relationship between the Chinese and Japanese zodiacal calendar, and scrolled through acres of obscure automotive [...]
Yesterday, Bucyrus (BUCY) announced that it was being acquired by Caterpillar (CAT) in a deal valued at $8.6 billion. But far more interesting to us was this 13G that FMR LLC (that’s Fidelity Investments) filed just last week disclosing that it owned 7.17% of Bucyrus’ outstanding shares. By sheer coincidence, yesterday was also the day [...]
After several weeks of rumors, Gymboree (GYMB) announced on Monday that it was being taken private by Bain Capital in a $1.8 billion deal. To be honest, we’ve been a fan of Gymboree ever since baby Soren was born. That’s because unlike a lot of the other clothes out there for baby boys, Gymboree clothes [...]
On Tuesday, after the market closed, Bowne & Co. (BNE) announced that it was being acquired by RR Donnelly (RRD) for $481 million, or about $11.50 a share. Given that Bowne stock closed at $6.97 on Tuesday, there were no doubt some smiles on a few investors’ faces over the news. Given this, we decided to [...]
As we monitored filings on Friday afternoon, we wondered why EDGAR seemed unusually sluggish. But it wasn’t until late Friday that we realized why: Blackrock (BLK) had done a massive document dump on Friday afternoon of 13G filings related to its acquisition of Barclay’s Global Investors. We counted over 1,800 13Gs that Blackrock dumped on [...]
