Due diligence and LexisNexis to the rescue
Incredibly, The Inquirer has picked up another
outlandish rumor that appears borderline fraudulent. Cher
Price is the author
of an article on the site claiming Intel could bid $23 per share in a
separate takeover bid of ATYT, or ATI Technologies for us technical folks. The rumor is partially visible on Fidelity's
AMD portfolio site here, claiming the following in its entirety:
Jul 25, 2006 (JAGfn.com via COMTEX) -- (ATYT) (INTC) (AMD) Rumor that ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC (ATYT) will get a $23 bid from (INTC) over current (AMD) bid.
JagNotes, for those
who do not remember the dot-bomb era as well as I do, was a horrible example of
what could go wrong with a dot com site. The site spun off JagFN.com,
which was to be the network's live broadcast website with news commentary and
analysis. Unfortunately, JagFN.com has been defunct for at least four
years now, and JagNotes became a little more than a link aggregator during that time
as well. JagFN.com and JagFN.tv are now a CPC link farms.
Yet that has not stopped whoever is operating JagFN.com to continue to submit
news wires to feeds. The owners of JagFN.com, Popular Enterprises LLC, are also the proud owners of link farms located at web---sites.com and clickclickonline.com. Our friends at The Register have a few choice words Popular Enterprises.
JagFN.com has made a number of dubious claims over
the past few months:
July 13, 2006: Johnson
& Johnson will make a $35 bid for Bristol Myers Squibb
July 5, 2006: Microsoft
will make a bid for RealNetworks
November 10, 2005: Qualcomm will
make a $30 bid for Interdigital
June 23, 2005: Patterson-UTI
Energy will make a $12 bid for Grey Wolf
For some people who actually track some of these companies, not only are these
rumors unsubstantiated, they are downright asinine. Searching the Yahoo Financial forums for JagFN alone yields dozens of claims (none of which have been correct since 2002) of takeover bids -- the new owners of JagFN seem to only publish rumors with regard to takeovers. JagFN used to report
these sorts of stories when it was a legitimate news outlet, but over the last
two years it seems there is a clear indication that the JagFN "feed"
is nothing more than a very small entity attempting to stir up headlines for
its own purposes.
DailyTech attempted to contact JagNotes for any comment on the relation between JagNotes and the JagFN feeds, but we did not receive a reply from the company. The JagNotes front page has the ATI rumor listed, though we were not able to read the full article without paying the company $100, which we declined.
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