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It's not only regulated by internal rules, once you have a significant share, in most stock exchanges in the world, you can't silently keep on raiding shares until you hold the majority, but if you so desire you must declare your intent, make takeover bids, hostile or not, each one with its rules, etc.

I can answer this thread in one word and summerize everything that needs to be said with it.



No.

@Alby: Yes. That's the way it works. You'll also have to report between each intervals how much shares you own and if you want to buy (or sell) a big enough slice, it must be made as a public bid.

So basically you can keep buying a company a little bit at a time, you just can't do it silently.
Every public bid has an impact on stock price and if the impact is big enough for the price to go above the bid, the shareholdelrs are likely to turn the bid down.

Oh well, so when somebody wants (and can) to buy Sony, we'll be informed in advance... Now we can feel much better, can't we?

omg... pointless sony is not just a console company...... games are their smallest market

no

Sony will be in the gaming buiseness for a while!

Sony will be in the gaming buiseness for a while!

I drank too much, I start seeing double msgs