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SABMiller reached an agreement to buy Foster's for $10.15 billion, ending a hostile takeover battle that had lasted months.

U.S energy giant Peabody Energy Corp. said Friday it has the approval of a key Australian regulator for its 4.7 billion Australian dollar ($4.9 billion) hostile takeover bid for miner Macarthur Coal Ltd.

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) High testosterone levels in CEOs negotiating mergers and acquisitions are linked to a higher rate of dropped deals and an increase in hostile takeover attempts, according to a new study in the current issue of Management Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Hostile takeover offer price rises 15% to $7.50 per...

A major change has taken place behind the scenes at Xing, the business networking company based in Hamburg, Germany.  Burda Media is now the primary shareholder due to a transaction that saw it purchase a lot of stock from Cinco Capital GmbH.

Burda bought a whopping 1,323,041 shares for €36.50 each (which works out to about $72.3 million).  It controls a 25.1 percent stake in Xing as a result.  This wasn't any sort of hostile takeover, though.

Bioscience company Metabolix Inc. on Tuesday said its board adopted a shareholder rights plan, commonly called a "poison pill," aimed at thwarting attempts at a hostile takeover.

Exelon Corp. on Thursday sweetened its hostile takeover bid for NRG Energy Inc. by 12 percent to $8 billion in stock, citing newly identified cost savings along with NRG's recent deal for Reliant Energy's Texas retail business.

Exelon Corp. said Thursday it raised its hostile takeover bid for rival NRG Energy Inc. to about $8 billion in stock, citing newly identified cost savings and NRG's acquisition of Reliant Energy's Texas retail business .

Exelon Corp. on Thursday sweetened its hostile takeover bid for rival power generator NRG Energy Inc. by 12 percent to $8 billion in stock, citing newly identified cost savings along with NRG's recent deal for Reliant Energy's Texas retail business.

Chip designer Broadcom Corp. has boosted its hostile takeover offer for network gear maker Emulex Corp. to about $912 million from $764 million.