Analysts questioned the rationale for a deal, noting that ICE focuses on financial transactions while eBay is consumer-oriented.
The revised bid for Monitise “should pave the way for a deal" after shareholders came out against the original $89.1 million proposal.
The furniture and equipment leasor rejected Vintage Capital's $800 million offer, calling it “inadequate and opportunistic.”
The sweetened $26.4 billion takeover offer could increase the pressure on Akzo Nobel to open talks with PPG after rejecting two earlier proposals.
Akzo Nobel says the unsolicited proposal "substantially undervalues our company and contains serious risks and uncertainties."
The deal would be the third-biggest takeover in history but Unilever said Kraft's offer “profoundly undervalues the company."
The SEC says the drug maker failed to timely inform investors about its merger talks with Salix and Actavis.
