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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

Monsanto announced that it has received an unsolicited purchase offer from Bayer AG. The offer is under consideration by Monsanto's board of directors. The companies are both major sellers of pesticides and of seeds for crops. Monsanto's market capitalisation [yahoo.com] on 18 May was $42.43 billion.

coverage:

• Dow Jones Business News via NASDAQ [nasdaq.com]
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch [stltoday.com]
• Reuters [reuters.com]
• Motley Fool [fool.com]
• New York Times [nytimes.com] (older story)
• Bloomberg [bloomberg.com] (older story)
• USA Today [usatoday.com] (older story)
• Fierce Pharma [fiercepharma.com] (older story)
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch [stltoday.com] (older story)
• MarketWatch [marketwatch.com] (older story)

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Cartoonist Fired for Criticizing Big Agriculture [soylentnews.org]

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