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By Tom Ivan
EA said that the new price, which still values the company at around $2 billion in cash, takes into account additional shares to be issued to Zelnick Media following stockholder approval of the amendment to Take-Two’s incentive stock plan at its 2008 annual stockholders meeting on April 17.
The tender offer was previously set to expire at 11:59 p.m., EDT, on April 18. The revised offer will expire on May 16, a full two-and-a half weeks after the release of Grand Theft Auto IV (pictured).
“EA continues to believe that the offer price is full and fair, and that a transaction between Take-Two and EA is the most compelling combination financially, strategically and operationally for all parties,” the company said in a statement.
At its annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick told the company’s major stock owners that the unsolicited EA bid “vastly undervalues” the publisher.
