Finance / EDS (ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS CORP)

> > > Companies Dole Out Executive Options During Merger Discussions (originally posted by Dew, with his comments) [This practice cheats ordinary shareholders in much the same way as the issuance of backdated options, which became a scandal three years ago thanks in part to a page-one story in the WSJ (#msg-10227150). One major difference between the two kinds of abuses: issuing pre-merger ...

Companies Dole Out Executive Options During Merger Discussions [This practice cheats ordinary shareholders in much the same way as the issuance of backdated options, which became a scandal three years ago thanks in part to a page-one story in the WSJ (#msg-10227150). One major difference between the two kinds of abuses: issuing pre-merger options is evidently not illegal, and the SEC doesn’t seem...

Xerox to buy Affiliated Computer for $6.4 billion September 28, 2009 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Xerox-to-buy-Affilia ted-rb-1225165860.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=1&as set=&ccode= Xerox Corp plans to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc in a $6.4 billion cash-and-stock deal that expands the copier company into outsourcing and data center management. The deal, priced at a 33.6 percent premium to ...