"Twitter in acquisition talks with Google and Facebook" screamed the headlines earlier this week.

Everyone here is in acquisition talks with Google and Facebook.

Mr. Neal confirmed that his firm was in the early stages of acquisition talks with another firm.

Yahoo is said to have kept pushing acquisition talks despite getting rejected several times.

Most large companies are no longer interested in media services from this area, however, and acquisition talks with Microsoft did not lead to an agreement.

But in the final months of the year, he was prohibited by securities law from doing so because he was involved in acquisition talks.

Later in the day, the company announced that it was engaged in "acquisition talks with a major international technology company."

The acquisition talks follow signs that Oppenheimer was looking for more capital to bolster its position in the brokerage industry.

The acquisition talks were first reported yesterday in The New York Post.

Lukoil executives had said in the past that they were holding acquisition talks with Komitek.