{"id":3163,"date":"2008-08-26T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2008-08-26T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T18:11:22","slug":"invitrogen-shareholders-get-special-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3163","title":{"rendered":"Invitrogen Shareholders Get Special Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/invitrogenlogo.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/invitrogenlogo.gif','popup','width=189,height=32,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/invitrogenlogo-tm.jpg\" height=\"33\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Invitrogenlogo\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re marking our calendar. On October 16, 2008 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.invitrogen.com\/content.cfm?pageid=1\" target=\"_blank\">Invitrogen<\/a><\/strong> (our favorite Carlsbad-based life sciences company) is holding a special meeting of its shareholders to vote on the company&#8217;s proposed acquisition of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appliedbiosystems.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Applied Biosystems Inc<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The special meeting of shareholders will be held on October 16, 2008, at 9 a.m., PT at Invitrogen&#8217;s headquarters, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=5781+Van+Allen+Way,+Carlsbad,+Calif.+92008&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;um=1&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=title\" target=\"_blank\">5781 Van Allen Way, Carlsbad, Calif. 92008<\/a><\/strong>. Invitrogen shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 5, 2008 will be entitled to vote at the special meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re thinking me might go, just for fun. How many times have you voted on a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2654\" target=\"_blank\">$6.4 billion deal<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20080825005382&amp;newsLang=en\" target=\"_blank\">BusinessWire<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re marking our calendar. On October 16, 2008 Invitrogen (our favorite Carlsbad-based life sciences company) is holding a special meeting of its shareholders to vote on the company&#8217;s proposed acquisition of Applied Biosystems Inc. The special meeting of shareholders will be held on October 16, 2008, at 9 a.m., PT at Invitrogen&#8217;s headquarters, 5781 Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,34,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}