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" Wisdom ? Pff.... That dude was about as wrong as you can get on this company ! " How so ?
Blimey ! Old Dick Turpin was hanged at another Georgian racecourse ! http://www.stand-and-deliver.org.uk/highwaymen/dick_turpin.htm I sense bad vibes for Fiserv !
Seeon - I am glad to hear that you consider that Fiserv are attempting to steal us ! Clever second paragraph of your post ! I walked the golden retriever tonight ,around an abandoned Georgian racecourse at the back of my house. It does wonders for the little grey cells! Concentrating on the patents is not the important issue here ! It is copyright ! The software that has been developed for FINKit has to be protected by copyright ! So, this is not published in any register and simply exists in a written format ! As it was developed internally it does not need to be shown in the accounts ! Was it Dick Turpin that was a highway robber in Georgian times ?
Seeon - so why do Fiserv want to buy us ? Look at their plans,as set out in the takeover documentation ; do they really mean to say that Monitise patents are worth nothing ! They want us bad ! Why else would they want to buy ? Maybe ,it is copyright that has not been disclosed ! So,they should pay a fair price or stand aside !
Sorry folks, should have said peer to enterprise ! Claim number 2 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Monitise&OS=Monitise&RS=Monitise P2P is person to person which is also dealt with in the patent !
Well, we never thought Visa had thrown in the towel,did we ! Apparently Bitcoin is going to have a bit of a power surge shortly,which makes it more of a competitor to Visa,MasterCard et al ! It could,apparently have serious implications for all card companies ! Think about it ! Who owns the P2P master patent ?
About all of this ? Just curious !
If I recall, Watson now has to approve most IBM takeovers . So I thought to try to put together a synopsis of my posts over the last few years to see if that might help ! Then of course I realised that Watson has already probably done this!
http://citywire.co.uk/money/worldpay-soars-as-bidders-circle-buxton-stock/a1030638?re=47758&ea=15961&utm_source=BulkEmail_Money_Daily_Summary&utm_medium=BulkEmail_Money_Daily_Summary&utm_campaign=BulkEmail_Money_Daily_Summary So who owns the patents they use ?
If IBM or another want Monitise then they have a few weeks left to put their bid on the table ! When bidding, I have always left it to the last moment to do so ! So the next few weeks will be interesting ! A bargain is to be had ,so I suspect that one or more bidders will appear from nowhere, as often happens !
K3 - so,if Fiserv pay 15p per share, they get the company for nothing ! That's business ,I suppose !
The negotiating skills have produced the present offer ! Fiserv are obviously playing hard ball and management have felt they have to leave it to shareholders to decide ! Fair enough ; but it is now for shareholders to play the same game https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CyoMp2JceOw
Sorry ,used one of the misses cookery links! Here is the correct one - http://executives.findthecompany.com/l/37879/Steven-D-Black
Valuehunter-if it is one and the same gent , then he retired as Vice Chair of JP Morgan in 2010,long before the sale by Visa. Since 2010 he has been a director of Nadaq Inc. http://www.oneingredientchef.com/thick-almond-milk/ It is an endorsement of Monitise that he remains a large shareholder in the company and this fact reinforces my belief that we are being substantially undersold !
K3 - you forgot to add the value of FINKit and the patents !
The BOD have passed the ball to the shareholders. The decision to accept or reject the takeover offer is now down to us to decide. Personally, I was for auctioning the company at the point when EBITDA had been achieved, so I have no gripes about a takeover-only the proposed price ! It could be of course,that the BOD see the Fiserv offer as a form of stalking horse bid ,with the hope that a stallion will appear on the stage !
Quite cheap ! In my book it seems dirt cheap,if the acquisition has such an impact on Fiserv ! http://www.nasdaq.com/article/fiservs-monitise-acquisition-faces-shareholder-hurdle-cm804319
It is a Scheme of Arrangement that is proposed http://www.monitise.com/what-we-think/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2.7-Announcement.pdf
If you have not had the time to read this ,then you should ! http://www.monitise.com/what-we-think/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Press-release.pdf Note,the acquisition is expected to accelerate ......the development of a next generation digital banking platform .
Fullstack- that's just the usual legal guff which sometimes prevents disclosures to our American cousins ! I have never quite understood it all ! The irony is that exactly the same information appears on the Fiserv site !