Merger hints - revisited

I wrote in one of my very early posts that you can find few hints embedded in publicly available information about possible takeovers.

I did also think of using search engines to ferret out more circumstantial hints - say information that a particular CEO is in city x, which is the headquarters of a possible suitor y.

But this here is something I was not looking for - check out the helicopter crash mystery that would have helped to foresee the MBNA buyout. Here is the later admission by MBNA.