Moneylender
- 23 Jan 2003 08:09
snappy
- 17 Oct 2005 16:09
- 1832 of 2262
This affair could be quite a drawn out one mackem.
It posses several questions of which the first one must surely be what were Tadpole doing paying $25m in shares for a company that less than a year after completion of the deal (also at a cost of over $1m in legal fees on top) are they now unable to reach agreement on funding at the board level. Surely they must have had an idea at the time of the acquisition/reverse takeover/takeover call it whatever you want what the funding requirements might be.
It's all very fishy
Moneylender
- 17 Oct 2005 16:15
- 1833 of 2262
Snappy
One of your better posts!!
You must remeber that ST was just about bust when we bought it for $25m
How do you spell "con"
M
mackem
- 17 Oct 2005 16:18
- 1834 of 2262
Poor management snappy but then has Tadpole ever had a case
where the management were good, 25 years of losing money, the
only reason they manage to keep raising funds is that the small
shareholder still cant say no to the company, a long and painful
love affair.
snappy
- 17 Oct 2005 16:26
- 1835 of 2262
very true mackem, but that love affair seems to be drawing to a close.
yuff
- 17 Oct 2005 16:44
- 1836 of 2262
Seems to me SW is the biggest culprit of this con and intends to play the end game and it will be up top shareholders to stop him. His ego is telling him he will succeed his track record for shareholders is poor, unless he or his stooges pick up more shares he could risk losing everything that he has worked for over the last 9 years.
ST got 80m shares which after sales and sacking all of his staff could be down to 40m, 10% of total shares in issue with probably the majority of current share holders uk based, he might have more of a fight on his hands than he realises.
I have persuauded 4m shares to side with DL today, 10% of his total(SW's that is).
Let the battle commence.
superrod
- 17 Oct 2005 20:48
- 1837 of 2262
Snappy
spot on.
i would love to sat that tad is a no brainer at this shareprice, but sadly the rns has absolutely nothing positive to say about the company.
passim
- 18 Oct 2005 12:21
- 1838 of 2262
Anyone here remember Peter Kilby? (pedro)
I wonder what he would have to say if he were not realigning his skill set!!!
mackem
- 18 Oct 2005 15:43
- 1839 of 2262
Stock on offer today for anybody interested.
3-3.25p spread but online you can buy for 3.11p and upto 250k
but you can only sell 25k online albeit the nms is at least 100k.
Mr Positively Mad
- 18 Oct 2005 20:04
- 1840 of 2262
hey Mackem
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TOODLE PIP OLD BOY
Dil
- 18 Oct 2005 23:06
- 1841 of 2262
... and now the end is near .
and so TAD faces its final curtain ....
Bout time too.
Beau62
- 19 Oct 2005 08:08
- 1842 of 2262
LOL Dil....
As Stig did it his way....
Beau
andrewbertram2003
- 19 Oct 2005 10:48
- 1843 of 2262
Well.....has anybody played Half Life 2...distributed by Valve's technology Steam!!!
This works and works brilliantly even on the lowest 512k broadband we have.
So....I TAD and its stReam technology are obviously barking up the correct tree but appear to not have a clue how to get up it!
If you try the Encarta link on MS for the download its broken. Does this signify that MS is no longing interested in it. Surely its damaged sales of Encarta!
TAD is a story of a great bit of technology in the wrong hands I feel. Mis managed I think we agree.
If you look at the press releases on Endeavours site the last half a dozen are all deals to distribute games. Talk about jumping on the bandwagon a little late.
So, is this company being driven to the wall and then will be snapped up by a third party (MS) for a major bargain. I still thing this could be the way its going. And who looses out on that....hmmmm?
snappy
- 19 Oct 2005 15:41
- 1844 of 2262
it's certainly an entertaining and interesting story for those of us on the sidelines but most be quite another for those that have been sucked in for all the years and are now trapped by an ever decreasing shareprice.
Still trading south of the 50 day MA unsurprisingly.
blinger
- 26 Oct 2005 19:27
- 1845 of 2262
I cannot believe this thread has been vacated for a week?
pachandl
- 27 Oct 2005 12:26
- 1846 of 2262
True Blinger - but we all secretly enjoy going for our weekly enenema - now that is a real evacuation (much like the constant sellers at present).
Moneylender
- 27 Oct 2005 14:11
- 1847 of 2262
Here is a copy of a post off 3i, if you hold it is worth reading and acting on.
M
In terms of voting power, this is going to be a battle between the Big-Block voter and the little man.
Even if you feel that your shareholding is embarrasingly small, pitch it in, it will help make a difference.
Can I also ask you to get in touch with shareholders who you know have chucked their shares into a drawer and walked away in disgust?
There are 40M shares held in Barclayshare Nominees and about the same in TD WAterhouse.
80M shares held by people who hold the key to TAD's future.
If you know them, point them towards the iii BB or get them to mail me at nildes_@hotmail.com and I'll bring them up to date on the action.
Your investment in TAD needs you to get a bit more active if you don't want its entire value gambled with a funding company which as I understand it makes GEM look like Mother Theresa.
So, dig out those old e-mails, find those numbers, make those calls ;o)
United we stand...
Regards
N.
blinger
- 27 Oct 2005 20:17
- 1848 of 2262
Snap
on iii said the theme song was "Sandals in the wind",more like `Wind in the Sandals` from that lot.Hot air and guano will get them nowhere, its a dead duck.
blinger
- 28 Oct 2005 20:25
- 1849 of 2262
down again
quack-quack!!!!!!
Uponthelowdown
- 28 Oct 2005 21:45
- 1850 of 2262
Which T-W-A-T in the new set-up decided to sack all the MS/Autodesk/MCI support staff out of hand just as projects like Encarta etc for MS were getting traction? Who's ego was so big he could not see beyond games?
It really galls me to read articles quoting Bill Gates saying Streaming is the future and CD Rom are so last year and ETI which was set up to capitalise on MS future projections has been dismantled and all the bits chucked in the waste disposal unit.
Greg Bolcer must be writhing in agonised pleasure at the lack of foresight on the part of Tad's management. Just when we had it in our grasp they lost the faith and threw it all away.
To cap it all they bought a games streaming company with an aggressive Alan Ladd clone in charge for a sum vastly exceeding their ability to pay for it and vastly in excess of its trumped up value.
G@d how many years have I struggled to hold onto these shares only to see them fritter their chance and fumble the ball when the line was clearly in view?
No wonder they went down today.
Still o.000000001 cent per download from unknown penny-ante games cos is infinitely preferable to and is going to make us so much more money than dealing with the biggest, hugest software conglomerate in the known universe. I can accept the thinking as an addled old timer, I can...and y'know they'll also attempt to take everything you thought you had left into the bargain; if we stand for it.
I feel sorry for all the longterm hardbitten regulars in the Tad army, if that scenario takes place. I don't think SW gives a gypsy's curse for the lot of them/us and/or the Tad board.
Tad made a grave error getting them and us into bed with ST and it is the shareholders who are going feel sore in the morning!
What a bl@@dy mess. What a mess?
Only Tad could manage it. Only Tad!
Good luck to all who sail in her; and good luck to David Lee as he tries to bale it and us out!
blinger
- 29 Oct 2005 20:42
- 1851 of 2262
I see poor old yufff is down to solicting bets on Fool now, re-arrange ,
"money Fools yufff are parted soon"
90% down and still boasting, on with The Motley yufff
lol!!!!!