中国盛大拟出售所持新浪股份
英国《金融时报》王明(Mure Dickie)北京报道
2006年11月8日 星期三
盛大互动娱乐有限公司(Shanda Interactive Entertainment)昨日宣布,拟将手中所持新浪(Sina Corp)股份的逾三分之一售予花旗全球市场(Citigroup Global Markets)。盛大是在纳斯达克上市的中国网络游戏公司,新浪是中国领先的门户网站。
此次出售突出表明,自2005年初盛大出人意料地收购了新浪19.5%的股份以来,新浪与盛大的命运已然迥异。当初,外界普遍认为,盛大收购新浪股份是意图发起空前规模的敌意收购的前奏。
盛大的收购促使新浪成为首家采取“毒丸”防御计划的纳斯达克上市中国企业。但自那以来,随着盛大股价跌至2005年2月水平的一半以下,力量的对比已经发生转变.
SHANDA REDUCES STAKE IN PORTAL SINA
By Mure Dickie in Beijing
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Shanda Interactive Entertainment, the Nasdaq-listed Chinese online games company, yesterday announced the sale of more than a third of its stake in leading local internet portal Sina Corp to Citigroup Global Markets.
The sale highlights the contrasting fortunes of Sina and Shanda since the games company's surprise purchase of a 19.5 per cent stake in the portal in early 2005, a move widely seen as a prelude to an unprecedented hostile takeover attempt.
The purchase prompted Sina to become the first Nasdaq-listed Chinese company to introduce a “poison pill” defence but the balance of relative power has since shifted as Shanda's shares slid to less than half their February 2005 price.