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Online takeover.


Online Takeover To assume control or management of a corporation without necessarily obtaining actual title to it.

A takeover bid or tender offer is a proposal made by one company to purchase shares of stock of another company, in order to acquire control thereof.
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Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 Brands Inc. has agreed to acquire DoItYourself.com, a leading independent home improvement and home repair Web site. Several of DoItYourself.com's affiliates were not included in the deal, including FreeAdvice Freeadvice is a free US legal information web service which was established in 1997. It has won extensive awards, including having been named by Forbes as a "Best of the Web", by PC World as one of the Best 125 Free Sites on the entire Web, as one of the 100 featured sites in PC .com.
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Title Annotation:Internet Brands Inc. to acquire DoItYourself.com
Author:Filus, Sarah
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1U9CA
Date:Feb 5, 2007
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