The New York Times

EBay Rejects GameStop’s $55 Billion Takeover Bid

The online marketplace called the cash-and-stock proposal “neither credible nor attractive.” By Lauren Hirsch The online marketplace eBay on Tuesday rejected a proposal by GameStop to combine the two ...
CNBC

EBay rejects GameStop's $56 billion takeover bid, calling it 'neither credible nor attractive'

EBay's board rejected GameStop's $56 billion takeover bid, calling the unsolicited offer "neither credible nor attractive." GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen made an audacious bid for the online marketplace ...
Ars Technica

GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it’ll pay for it

GameStop yesterday made an unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. GameStop claims that eBay has underperformed and spends too much on sales and marketing and argues that it would become a ...
Wall Street Journal

GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion

In a CNBC interview, Ryan Cohen was asked how GameStop would finance its unsolicited offer to purchase eBay, a much bigger company. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Cohen told The Wall Street ...
The New York Times

EBay, the Old-School E-Commerce Site, Finds Its Place in Modern Retail

The online marketplace has remade itself by focusing on collectibles and other high-end goods — and attracted an unwelcome takeover bid from GameStop. By Kim Bhasin EBay, once Silicon Valley’s face of ...
CNN

GameStop makes daring $56 billion bid for eBay, hoping to rival Amazon

GameStop has offered to buy ecommerce giant eBay for $55.5 billion, a tie-up that the video game retailer’s boss believes could produce a “legit competitor” to Amazon. The offer comes amid something ...
Forbes

How An Options Trade Underpins GameStop’s EBay Takeover Bid

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. GameStop made its name in a short squeeze. Now it’s trying a takeover. (Photo by Brandon ...
CNBC

GameStop stock sinks after surprise eBay takeover bid, Cohen's combative CNBC interview

GameStop made a nonbinding takeover proposal for eBay, offering $125 per share. "We are offering half cash, half stock, and we have the ability to issue stock in order to get the deal done," GameStop ...
IGN

GameStop Makes $55.5 Billion Offer to Buy eBay

GameStop has announced it has made a $55.5 billion offer to buy eBay at $125.00 per share in cash and stock. CEO Ryan Cohen, who would become CEO of the combined company should the deal go through, ...
CNN

eBay rejects GameStop’s $56 billion offer, calling it ‘neither credible nor attractive’

Online marketplace eBay has rejected an offer from GameStop to buy the company for $55.5 billion, dealing a blow to the video game retailer’s ambitions to create a rival to Amazon. After reviewing ...
The Guardian

GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay

Video game retailer’s CEO warns that unsolicited bid could turn hostile if it is rebuffed by resale site’s board US video games retailer GameStop has offered to buy eBay for $55.5bn (£41bn) in an ...