takeover In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the ''target'') by another (the ''acquirer'' or ''bidder''). In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are publicly listed, in contrast to the acquisi ...

is the purchase of one company by another. Takeover or Take Over may also refer to:

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* ''Take Over'' (James Bond), an unpublished 1970 James Bond novel purportedly written by Ian Fleming * ''The Takeover'' (novel), a 1976 novel by Muriel Spark

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*The Takeover, a band which later became

Innerpartysystem Innerpartysystem (often stylized as InnerPartySystem) is an American electronic rock band. The group consists of Patrick Nissley, Jared Piccone and Wuki, Kris Barman. The band is well known for their live performance lighting largely by Andrew ...

Takeover Records Takeover Records is a punk rock record label based in Long Beach, California, United States. The company was founded by former Yellowcard guitarist Ben Harper and his friend Greg McDonald in 1997. Artists Current *Bracket * HeyMike! * River Cit ...

, a punk rock record label *''Take Over'', a 2009 album by

Aaron Shust Aaron Michael Shust (born October 31, 1975) is an American contemporary Christian music artist formerly on the Brash Music and Centricity Music labels, and now on his own label. Shust was named the Songwriter of the Year at the GMA Dove Awards o ...

* ''The Takeover'' (album), an album by Zion I *''The Takeover'', an album by

Lil' Flip Wesley Eric Weston Jr. (born 3 March 1981), better known by his stage name Lil' Flip, is an American rapper. Raised in Houston, Texas, he began his musical career as a freestyle and battle rapper before signing with the local record label Sucka ...

* "Takeover" (Jay-Z song), a 2001 song by rapper Jay-Z produced by Kanye West * "Takeover", a 2011 song by

Mizz Nina Shazrina binti Azman, also known as Mizz Nina, (born 1 July 1980) is a Malaysian fashion designer, motivational speaker, television personality, humanitarian, and co-founder of Dopstv, an Islamic lifestyle channel. She first gained renown as a ...

featuring

Flo Rida Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 16, 1979), known professionally as Flo Rida ( ), is an American rapper and singer. His 2007 debut and breakout single "Low (Flo Rida song), Low" was number one for 10 weeks in the United States and broke the ...

* "Takeover" (Lee Mvtthews song), a 2019 song by Lee Mvtthews featuring NÜ * "Take Over", a 2014 song by Nick Jonas from his self-titled album * "Take Over", a song from the game

Persona 5 Royal is a 2016 role-playing video game developed by P-Studio and published by Atlus. The game is the sixth installment in the ''Persona'' series, itself a part of the larger ''Megami Tensei'' franchise. It was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStat ...

, 2019 * "Take Over", a 2020 promotional single for the

2020 League of Legends World Championship The 2020 ''League of Legends'' World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game ''League of Legends''. It was the tenth iteration of the ''League of Legends'' World Championship, an annual interna ...

* "The Take Over", a 2007 song by Four Year Strong from '' Rise or Die Trying''

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Takeover Entertainment Takeover Entertainment was a British entertainment company. The organization operates an independent record label, talent agency, a music production company, as well as its own music publishing house. The company was founded in 2006 and is run ...

NXT TakeOver NXT TakeOver was a series of periodic professional wrestling events produced by the American professional wrestling promotion, promotion WWE for its NXT (WWE brand), NXT WWE brand extension, brand division. The first TakeOver was simply titled NX ...

, several events by WWE *

Takeover Radio Takeover Radio is a community radio station broadcasting on FM to the Ashfield district in Nottinghamshire. Takeover Radio specialises in helping children gain experience and direct participative involvement in radio broadcasting. Created in ...

, a British radio station * ''The Takeover'' (film), 1995 * ''Takeover'' (1988 film), a 1988 Australian film *''

The TakeOver ''The TakeOver'' is an indie beat 'em up video game developed by Greek developer Pelikan13 (Antonis Pelekanos) and published by Dangen Entertainment. It was released for Windows and MacOS on February 2, 2016 in early access, seeing a full relea ...

'', a 2019 video game * ''Takeover'' a 2020 German film * ''Takeover'' (upcoming film), an upcoming American film

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Nick Schulman Nick Schulman (born September 18, 1984, in New York City) is an American professional poker player and commentator. Early life Schulman grew up in New York City, and began playing pool at the famous Amsterdam Billiards. He was mentored by seve ...

, known as Nick "The Takeover" Schulman, a poker player *Takeover, the occupation of a building or other site as a form of protest *

IRC takeover An IRC channel takeover is an acquisition of IRC channel operator status by someone other than the channel's owner. It has largely been eliminated due to the increased use of services on IRC networks. Riding the split The most common variety of ...

, an acquisition of an Internet Relay Chat by an entity other than the channel's owner *A promotional tactic in

social media Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the Content creation, creation, information exchange, sharing and news aggregator, aggregation of Content (media), content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongs ...

where a popular figure has control over an outside social media account or channel for a certain period to promote their work *

Sideshow In North America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, traveling carnival, carnival, fair, or other such attraction. They historically featured human oddity exhibits (so-called “Freak show, freak shows”), pr ...

, also known as a takeover or street takeover, is an informal demonstration of automotive stunts often held in vacant lots, and public intersections.

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