DigitalGlobe Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal

Published on Friday, 04 May 2012 11:17 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

LONGMONT, Colo., May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI) ("the Company"), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today confirmed that it has received an unsolicited proposal from GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) to acquire the Company for $17.00 per share in a combination of cash and stock. 

DigitalGlobe's Board of Directors, consistent with its fiduciary duties and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, will carefully review and consider the proposal and pursue the course of action that is in the best interests of DigitalGlobe and its stockholders. 

DigitalGlobe stockholders are advised to take no action at this time pending the review of the proposal by the Company's Board of Directors.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is serving as DigitalGlobe's legal counsel, and Morgan Stanley and Barclays are serving as DigitalGlobe's financial advisors.

About DigitalGlobe

DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services. Sourced from our own advanced satellite constellation, our imagery solutions support a wide variety of uses within defense and intelligence, civil agencies, mapping and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, Internet portals and navigation technology. With our collection sources and comprehensive ImageLibrary (containing more than two billion square kilometers of earth imagery and imagery products) we offer a range of on- and off-line products and services designed to enable customers to easily access and integrate our imagery into their business operations and applications. For more information, visit www.digitalglobe.com.

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Contacts:

David Banks

DigitalGlobe

(303) 684-4210

Joele Frank / Eric Brielmann / Scott Bisang

Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

(212) 355-4449

SOURCE DigitalGlobe, Inc.