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by Esophagus4 45 days ago
I’ve searched the net to find the example, but I remember this happening during the dot com era too…

Some unknown tiny company made an offer to takeover Yahoo (or some similar company)… the tiny company made headlines for a moment then disappeared again.

It was an example of dot com silliness.

Can’t for the life of me remember, and Google can’t seem to either.

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Similar to when koenigsegg attempted to purchase saab, it can be a great way to get publicity.
> saab

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