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Decentralized Autonomous Corporation - Hostile Takeovers

1 A hostile takeover of a DAC handling money means that the attacker gains the ability to drain the DAC’s entire wallet. A hostile takeover could be accomplished by a successful Sybil

attack, say through a botnet, overwhelming the resource-

democracy mechanism by controlling over half of the servers in the

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Decentralized Autonomous Corporation - Hostile Takeovers

1 Then implementing a hostile takeover would require more

resources than all of the legitimate nodes committed together

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Takeover - Hostile takeovers

1 A hostile takeover allows a suitor to take over a target company whose management

is unwilling to agree to a merger or takeover. A takeover is considered hostile if

the target company's board rejects the offer, but the bidder continues to pursue it, or the bidder makes the offer directly after

having announced its firm intention to make an offer. Development of the hostile

tender is attributed to Louis Wolfson.

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Takeover - Hostile takeovers

1 A hostile takeover can be conducted in several ways

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Takeover - Tactics against hostile takeover

1 There are several tactics, or techniques, which can be used to deter a hostile takeover.

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History of private equity and venture capital - Corporate raiders, hostile takeovers and greenmail

1 Additionally, the threat of the corporate raid would lead to the practice of greenmail, where a

corporate raider or other party would acquire a significant stake in the

stock of a company and receive an incentive payment (effectively a

bribe) from the company in order to avoid pursuing a hostile takeover of

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History of private equity and venture capital - Corporate raiders, hostile takeovers and greenmail

1 Carl Icahn developed a reputation as a ruthless corporate raider after his

hostile takeover of Trans World Airlines|TWA in

1985.[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590446,00.htm

l 10 Questions for Carl Icahn] by Barbara Kiviat, Time (magazine)|TIME

magazine, Feb

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History of private equity and venture capital - Corporate raiders, hostile takeovers and greenmail

1 Repeatedly rejected by the company's board and management, Perelman continued to press forward

with a hostile takeover raising his offer from an initial bid of $47.50 per

share until it reached $53.00 per share

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Private equity in the 1980s - Corporate raiders, hostile takeovers and greenmail

1 Additionally, the threat of the corporate raid would lead to the practice of greenmail, where a

corporate raider or other party would acquire a significant stake in the

stock of a company and receive an incentive payment (effectively a

bribe) from the company in order to avoid pursuing a hostile takeover of

the companyhttps://store.theartofservice.com/the-hostile-takeover-toolkit.html

Private equity in the 1980s - Corporate raiders, hostile takeovers and greenmail

1 Carl Icahn developed a reputation as a ruthless corporate raider after his hostile takeover of Trans

World Airlines|TWA in 1985.[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590446,00.html 10 Questions for Carl Icahn] by Barbara Kiviat, Time (magazine)|TIME magazine, February 15, 2007 The result of that takeover was Icahn systematically selling TWA's assets to repay the debt he used to purchase the company, which

was described as asset stripping.[http://www.stlmag.com/media/St-Louis-Magazine/October-2005/TWA-Death-Of-A-Legend/

TWA - Death Of A Legend] by Elaine X

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Private equity in the 1980s - Corporate raiders, hostile takeovers and greenmail

1 Repeatedly rejected by the company's board and management, Perelman continued press forward with a hostile takeover raising his

offer from an initial bid of $47.50 per share until it reached $53.00 per

share

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Hostile takeover - Hostile takeovers

1 A well known example of an extremely hostile takeover was Oracle's hostile bid to acquire

PeopleSoft http://hbr.org/product/oracle-s-

hostile-takeover-of-peoplesoft-a/an/CG4A-PDF-ENG

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The New World Order (professional wrestling) - The Hostile Takeover Match

1 The match Bischoff promised, a six-man tag billed as the Hostile

Takeover Match, was scheduled as the main event of Bash at the Beach (1996)|Bash at the Beach, which was held at the Ocean Center in Daytona

Beach, Florida on July 7, 1996

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Hostile Takeover Trilogy

1 'Hostile Takeover' is a science fiction trilogy (actually one long novel in three parts)

written by S. Andrew Swann and published by DAW Books where the main setting is the

Anarcho-capitalism|Anarcho-capitalist planet of Mikhail Bakunin|Bakunin. It

consists of three books titled Profiteer, Partisan and Revolutionary, which were

published between 1995 and 1996 and re-released by DAW in a single volume in

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Hostile Takeover Trilogy

1 While Hostile Takeover is an example of libertarian science fiction in the tradition of

Robert A

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Hostile takeovers - Hostile takeovers

1 A hostile takeover allows a bidder to take over a target company whose management

is unwilling to agree to a merger or takeover. A takeover is considered hostile if

the target company's board rejects the offer, but the bidder continues to pursue it, or the bidder makes the offer directly after

having announced its firm intention to make an offer. Development of the hostile

tender is attributed to Louis Wolfson.

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Hostile takeovers - Hostile takeovers

1 A well known example of an extremely hostile takeover was Oracle's hostile bid to acquire

PeopleSoft [http://hbr.org/product/oracle-s-

hostile-takeover-of-peoplesoft-a/an/CG4A-PDF-ENG Oracle's Hostile

Takeover of PeopleSoft (A) - Harvard Business Review]

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Koppers - Beazer hostile takeover

1 In early 1988 Beazer, a United Kingdom|British conglomerate run by one of the foremost corporate raiders of the 1980s, successfully launched a hostile takeover of Koppers for $1.81

billion ($ billion today)

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David Sirota - Hostile Takeover

1 In May 2006, Random House|Random House's Crown Publishers released Sirota's book

Hostile Takeover

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David Sirota - Hostile Takeover

1 Sirota's Hostile Takeover (2006) was reviewed by New York Times critic

Tobin Harshaw who described Sirota as a Montana-based blogger with a take-no-prisoners mind-set with an

admirably organized mind

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