Radar alert

Close monitoring of trading patterns in a company's stock by senior managers to uncover unusual buying activity that might signal a takeover attempt. See: Shark watcher.

Radar Alert

A practice that a publicly-traded company uses to identify a possible hostile takeover. For example, a company may monitor for large purchases of shares by a single person or group of persons. Radar alert may give a company time to prepare or implement an anti-takeover strategy.

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F-Secure Corporation has released a Level-2 Radar alert on all these viruses, indicating that system administrators and end users should make sure their systems are protected.

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The report shows that the air traffic controllers - a trainee and supervisor at the Tokyo Air Traffic Control Centre in Tokorozawa near Tokyo - were unaware of the potential disaster until radar alert signals showed that a collision was imminent.

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You can also follow @scamwatch_gov on Twitter and subscribe to Scamwatch radar alerts.

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On Google Play it's called "(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apalon.weatherradar.free&hl=en) NOAA Weather and Radar Alerts " but has essentially all of the same features as the iOS version.

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The basic primary radar alerts controllers that an aircraft is nearby.

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His radar alerted, he discreetly took me to one side and enquired as to who they were.