Freescale's Privates

It's now official. There's all kinds of "Pending other offers" and "must be approved by the FEC" bullshit involved, but unless something really wiggy happens, Freescale is being purchased in a leveraged buyout by private investors. I've already cleaned up pretty thorougly on my stock options that jumped 20% in the last few days, it will be interesting to see if they offer us anything for our un-vested ones. The bad news is companies aquired in leveraged buyouts take on a huge amount of debt to do so, which means one of the first things the new managed does is cut costs.

Costs like me.