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Depending on whether Vodafone goes after T-Mobile or AT&T Wireless, the other could be a likely takeover candidate for Cingular.

The firm is now considered to be a likely takeover target.Ranbaxy, a big Indian generics firm, gobbled up six competitors last year and is now talking with private-equity firms about a bid for the generics arm of Germany's Merck.

He is also predicts that WellChoice itself could be a likely takeover target, if the nation's two largest publicly traded Blue Cross companies, Anthem and WellPoint, complete their $16.4 billion merger as expected this summer.

If they can keep expenses under control they will be a likely takeover candidate in the near future.

The company we think might be a likely takeover target would be Cinergy, the Cincinnati-based electric and gas utility that also covers parts of Indiana.

The educational publishing industry is consolidating rapidly, he said, and Houghton Mifflin is a likely takeover target.

By 2001, analysts were saying that EMI could never make it alone, and was a likely takeover target.

The one bright spot among Internet stocks was Lycos, whose stock continued to surge amid rumors the portal is a likely takeover target following @Home's stock-swap acquisition of Lycos rival Excite.

National City, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, was always a likely takeover target.

Because NBC -- which is owned by General Electric -- is the one network not owned by a larger media company, it is usually the one mentioned as a likely takeover target.

The two companies are in the final stages of discussions over what would likely be a $19 billion takeover of Genzyme by Sanofi, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Sunday.