Number one thing you're missing is the fact that you're reading a press release, not the internal business case for the bid. If they put in a solid, well-argued business case for why and how it's actually worth $6bln, there will be a long line of competing bids all the way up to that value, the share price will soar etc. The emotional lines plays very well in the press and distracts people like you from the possibility that they have a rock-solid business case (even if that business case is fire everybody and sell the patents to overseas patent trolls).

Or it might just be purely emotional, you never know :)