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The filing also shares the official reasons for accepting the merger from each company’s board (beginning on page 103). Youku’s reasons are more or less what you would expect — the merger gives Youku control of Tudou, after all — but some of Tudou’s reasons for acceptance belie that the company was struggling to increase the value of its shares, and concerned about its inability to do so on its own. They also reveal that Tudou management was still wondering whether it could have gotten a higher price had there been an open sale and bids from other competitors, but obviously, it decided not to risk Youku’s offer being withdrawn by pursuing that.