RE: Same Playbook? I wouldn't make too much of this. The AVR deal is for paper anyway, not cash. Big difference IMHO. After the option grant at 0.55 AVr shares dropped into the low 40's, so anyone that wanted to could have picked up shares for substantially lower. This being said, there were signs in the market that "something" was happening with AVR. So far I have not seen any evidence of this whatsoever in CAN's trading since the May 15 massacre. No sharp spikes up, no false alarms, nothing, nada. With Sinotech being the major shareholder of CAN and now another Chinese co potentially getting into the mix, I am not sure a takeover could even be possible. Perhaps you seeing only what you want to see here or this is a very clever attempt at pumping this stock (while appearing to bash management and so forth).