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hi my name is patty Hersh I'm a senior editor at marketplace today I want to talk about hostile takeovers we've seen a lot of merger and acquisition activity recently companies buying each other in some cases those takeovers are friendly in other cases they are hostile so what's the difference between the two well let's have a look get up on the board first hostile takeover and and we'll use a fictitious company for this example and that fictitious company is Three Little Pigs software ok here we are three little pigs and it's a software company that's been established since the 1960's has become very successful over the years that made a lot of money and they're now actually worth about five million dollars ok so it done pretty much still small but so you know that's pretty well large number of shareholders all of whom will that we see here and the in the shadow of three little pigs and because they've been quite successful they have of course attracted the attention or bigger players