RE: Is it possible this news is a hoax byOf course it's a hoax. Legitimate companies don't respond to "speculation"; they issue a terse "No comment" and the matter ends there.
Vancouver Boiler Room Moose Pasture SCAM companies, on the other hand - such as this one - grasp at anything they can to pump their stock higher and dump another worthless blizzard of paper on the naive and the gullible.
Including fantasy fairy tales about "takeovers". What specious rodomontade; what pixilated twaddle.