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Microsoft Shuts Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US
in Wangtam, on May 22, 2009
...• Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation
• Yahoo eyes social networking acquisitions
• Microsoft hit with $200 million patent verdict
• Acer takes on HP in home servers
• View from the T...
Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun
in Wangtam, on April 20, 2009
Oracle 同意以 74 亿美元或每股 9.50 美元的价格收购 Sun ，预计该次并购于今年夏季完成。
Oracle 公司总裁 Safra Catz 称，预计该并购交易完成的第一财年，将促使 Oracle 公司依非国际公认会计原则（Non-GAAP）计算的每股盈利至少增加 15 美分。
Catz 指出，预计其收购 Sun 电子计算机公司的业务在并购第一财年将为 Oracle Non-GAAP 运营利润贡献 15 亿美元 ，第二财年贡献逾 20 亿美元。而并购 Sun 电子计算机公司第一财年将实现的每股收益要高于 Oracle 并购服务器软件供应商 BEA 系统公司的计划每股收益...
Hedge Fund Manager Joins Water Reclamation Company
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 12, 2009
... at fresh water reclamation company, STW Resources, Inc.
Pedersen has over 20 years of mergers and acquisitions and financing transaction experience, a significant portion of which has been in the wa...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on February 3, 2009
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
Mergers of necessity: the big trend for 2009
in Sox First, on December 26, 2008
...
With more companies filing for bankruptcy, we can expect to see the stronger players making acquisitions. The downturn will unleash Pacman-style corporate activity. PricewaterhouseCoopers has fo...
Whirlpool experience with supply chain restructuring
in Supplychainer, on October 27, 2008
...cles describes is the extra complication of the improvement efforts as a result of Maytag 's acquisitions: "The difficulty of the work increased by a factor of two...because the companies...
Kunda Technology Floats IPO in Singapore
in China Venture News, on October 4, 2008
...stponed an earlier IPO. It hopes to using the funds raise to about US$8 million to pay for business acquisitions, investment in new plant and production facilities, and for research & development....
MySQL fragmenting under Sun?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 5, 2008
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Sun's acquisition of MySQL AB earlier this year carried with it the prospects that all such acquisitions of successful, smaller, open-source companies do, both positive and negative. The up si...
Harbinger Hedge Fund Picks Next Battle
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 26, 2008
...id by the activist hedge fund that would give them veto power over one of Cleveland-Cliffs proposed acquisitions.
Harbinger has made headlines recently for similar antics involving their other invest...
Outsourcing as Merger Preparation
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 30, 2008
...so, it may be possible that we have a new "canary in the coal mine" viz a vie mergers and acquisitions.
...
Mehrheit an Siemens SEN verkauft: Wer ist The Gores Group?
in Das CIO Weblog, on July 29, 2008
...rte Due-Diligence-Fähigkeiten eines strategischen Käufers mit dem erfahrenen Merger&Acquisitions-Team eines klassischen Finanzkäufers. The Gores Group, LLC ist zu einem führenden Investor geworden...
Supply chain job market: What are the external influencing factors?
in Supplychainer, on July 23, 2008
... only belong to companies like Accenture and Deloitte but also software companies.
5) Merger and acquisitions (Positive): Consolidation is now a fact in many sectors and when a company acquires an...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 31
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...you can bet on that. A line from Bobby Bare's country song explains what too often happens with acquisitions: "I've never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I've sure woke up with a ...
微软、Yahoo 将重回谈判桌
in Wangtam, on May 19, 2008
近日， Yahoo 收购案风波将再起 ，除了亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 搅和进来之外，微软、Yahoo 将重回谈判桌。今天微软出具了一份 官方的新闻稿 ，表明将重新进行对 Yahoo 的收购，但是与之前不同，此次的收购意向仅针对部分的 Yahoo 在线服务，如 Yahoo 的搜索引擎：
" in light of developments since the withdrawal of the Microsoft proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft announced that it is continuing to ex...
After Yahoo Deal Collapse, Microsoft Mulling Facebook?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 13, 2008
...ces such as SalesForce or Zoho. It could also consider pumping in the dollars for mobile technology acquisitions. With mobile internet access waiting to lift off, ad based models needs a total change ...
HP jacking up services game
in The CIO Weblog, on May 12, 2008
...on from traditional in-house client/server models to newer paradigms. HP has made a number of other acquisitions in this line and looks to be one of the stronger players in the combined hardware/servi...
Microsoft Does Not Want Yahoo
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 4, 2008
... really testing for them.
But the question still remains as to whether Microsoft can make some key acquisitions to keep up with the growth of Google in the online advertisements space.
...
Microsoft beefs up enterprise search with FAST acquisition
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2008
...l any integration with existing Microsoft products will be, as is nearly always the case with their acquisitions....
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 30
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 24, 2008
...ears - and particularly for 2006 - Charlie and I thankthem.
In 2006 Berkshire made a number of new acquisitions in unglamorous businesses. Buffett is known for his investing prowess, but in recent ye...
GE to Expand in China
in China Venture News, on April 18, 2008
... Review carried a report recently on General Electric's plans to commit around US$2 billion in acquisitions and other investment deals in China over the next three years.
© World Resources I...
Hedge Fund Summit, Top Quotes
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 9, 2008
Here are some of the top quotes from speakers attending the Reuters Hedge Funds and Private Equity Summit ;
CHAN CHIA LIN, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, FULLERTON ASSET MANAGEMENT
"The recent turmoil in the financial markets has really illustrated the benefits of investing in fund of fund...
Google In Rumored Talks With Skype
in The VoIP Weblog, on April 2, 2008
.... Google, while it may not have a clue what to do with it either, at least has some money and other acquisitions that are in a similar space.
Possible synergies with other Google-acquired properties...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 29
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 12, 2008
...year 2005...
First off, how Berkshire did:
Berkshire had a decent year in 2005. We initiated five acquisitions (two of which have yet to close) and most of our operating subsidiaries prospered. Even...
Buried under a pile o' Games
in House of Nintendo, on March 10, 2008
...huge student debts also) when I say that I have to put on the "personal freeze" on gaming acquisitions for awhile. I think I'll wait to get back in the game when Mario Kart and Wii Fit c...
Introducing... Sprint/T-Mobile? T-Mobile/Sprint? T-Mobisprex?
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 7, 2008
A Merrill Lynch analyst yesterday floated a rumor that T-Mobile USA owner Deutsche Telekom may consider buying the beleaguered Sprint "to block a price war in the mobile phone industry," according to The Kansas City Star's David Hayes .
There are, of course, a number of...
Iomota: the Ning for Mobile
in Wangtam, on March 2, 2008
...mp; Friedman are private equity investors out of New York City, with recent acquisitions of non-tech companies like Saipem SA, an oil and gas related organization, and a number of smaller private equi...
NFC North Team Needs
in End Zone Buzz, on February 28, 2008
...6-2, only to wind up 8-8. GM Matt Millen remains, so his not-so-magic touch will have a hand in any acquisitions the team makes. And clearly, they need defensive help. Lots of it, not to mention offen...
Developer Analytics
in Wangtam, on February 22, 2008
...in Revenue
It looks like all those acquisitions in the past year paid off. European professional social network Xing is reporting 5 million registered members worldwide, and significant growth in pai...
Dell continues transition to services
in The CIO Weblog, on February 21, 2008
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Larry Dignan has compiled a timeline showing Dell's recent acquisitions on the managed services front as the beleagured hardware vendor works to stay at part with arch-rival HP.
HP has ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 28
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on February 19, 2008
...oy.
I didn't do that job very well last year. My hope was to make several multi-billion dollar acquisitions that would add new and significant streams of earnings to the many we already have. But...
Petersen Museum Reveals Treasures of the Vault
in Classical Drives, on February 13, 2008
... maintains some real gems in its Permanent Collection and will highlight a group of these important acquisitions for a special exhibition beginning February 23rd, 2008, continuing through October 5th....
Women stars and portable skills
in Sox First, on January 29, 2008
...y that recruited them. Maybe. Firms acquiring male stars experienced a share-price loss whereas the acquisitions of female stars generated a share-price increase, although when you look at the numbers...
A Blue to Green Dilemma
in carzz.org, on January 22, 2008
...y another brand. Likely candidates like Saab and Volvo would not be a good fit. Just like BMW, such acquisitions would have to start from scratch to paint something on a green canvas.
Bring back an o...
Microsoft's FAST buy to shake up enterprise search?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on January 10, 2008
...uffle a few feathers in the enterprise arena. The major buy this year marks a high premium on other acquisitions following down the line.
Enterprise search is regarded as a much more complicated prop...
Zero2IPO Starts VC-PE Database
in China Venture News, on January 9, 2008
Zero2IPO has started China's first venture capital and private equity database.
The subscription service, ChinaVentureDatabase " is the single source for accurate, comprehensive and timely information covering venture, buyouts, private equity funds, firms, executives and portfolio com...
M&A deals of 2007
in TJ's Weblog, on January 3, 2008
Steve at Partnerup has done the effort to write down COMPLETE list of major M&A deals in the media, internet, tech and gaming industry.
Quite a feat - many interesting deals there I had not seen.
Thanks Steve!
The Top Tech Acquisitions of 2007
in Businesspundit, on January 3, 2008
...Over at the Partnerup blog, they have collected an interesting list of the top tech acquisitions of 2007 . As noted on the blog: An interesting trend that we've noticed, specifically in the web...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 27
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 3, 2008
...aid it would be - and it was.
I should add that Byron has now been instrumental in three Berkshire acquisitions. He understands Berkshire far better than any investment banker with whom we have talke...
The Year In VoIP: Q2 2007
in The VoIP Weblog, on December 27, 2007
...much about the GrandCentral service since the acquisition, but that seems fairly typical for Google acquisitions. Maybe we'll hear something in 2008?
Jangl Drops Jangl ID, Goes With Email Addre...
IBM/EMC Smackdown
in On Storage, on December 21, 2007
...e. Just last week, they decided to purchase Arsenal Digital. As EMC expanded its portfolio with the acquisitions of Documentum (content management), Smarts (resource management), RSA (security) and no...
Growthink Named Advisor to Jiangxi Copper
in China Venture News, on December 12, 2007
...facturing, distribution and mineral resources provides Jiangxi with excellent opportunities to make acquisitions which will consolidate their market leadership," Burg said. "Growthink is pro...
Google Maps with My Location (beta)
in Wangtam, on November 30, 2007
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HP unveils Automated Operations
in The CIO Weblog, on November 27, 2007
...eiled the product at the end of the rainbow arc of recent IT and management support software vendor acquisitions, and have named their pot of gold "Automated Operations 1.0." Incorporating c...
The wave of the supply chain acquisitions reaches pure-players
in Supplychainer, on November 21, 2007
The wave of acquisition is now moving from integrated solution providers such as SAP or Oracle to pure-player companies and a recent example of that is Sterling Commerce .
Sterling Commerce has originally been an EDI service provider. After 2000, the company acquired a number of point solution...
HP digs further into consulting
in The CIO Weblog, on November 12, 2007
...ch at Oracle's OpenWorld conference. Consolidation has clearly been on his mind, and the recent acquisitions presage more in the future, driven as he states by "...a push from an IT perspecti...
Oracle continues round of acquisitions with the bid for BEA
in Supplychainer, on November 2, 2007
...applications and the role of Oracle. As I mentioned there, Oracle´s strategy for growth is based acquisitions and crazy rate of company purchasing by Oracle (More than 30 companies in the last 3 yea...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 26
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 23, 2007
...of the heaviest hitters in American business.
Interesting story on a 2002 acquisition (one of many acquisitions that year, including Fruit of the Loom, and Garan):
The largest acquisition we initiat...
Pictomio: free photo software for fast 3D graphics cards
in Wangtam, on October 18, 2007
- Pictomio: free photo software for fast 3D graphics cards
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Web Clip Widgets
- Web 2.0 Invites for October 16th, 2007
- Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for October 16th, 2007
- MySpace and Sony BMG in Music Video Licensing Deal
- Scripps to Spin Off Interactive Unit...
The market overview for Business Performance Management Software
in Supplychainer, on October 11, 2007
...has become more Oracle -Like.
In the Business Performance area, the company made a number of acquisitions last year but at the end, it narrowly missed the Leader classification in business perfo...
Google Apps Premier edition gets secured
in The CIO Weblog, on October 5, 2007
...t fine, but when I think of services that are sort of thrown together out of a half-dozen corporate acquisitions, I think of all the potential problems they might have when stitched into a combined of...
3Tera and the future of The Grid
in The CIO Weblog, on October 4, 2007
A couple weeks ago I linked to a Dan Farber article on 3Tera's AppLogic grid processing application-a scalable, on-demand, commercially available processing platform for businesses that want to leverage the power of massively parallel processing on commodity hardware, but don't want ...
Job Security: Be Flexible Like Gumby
in Bizinformer, on September 25, 2007
...cent strike at GM and the UAW members' job security requirement.
With competition, mergers and acquisitions, position eliminations, downsizing and increasing corporate costs the thought of retiri...
T-Mobile USA Buys SunCom Wireless
in The Wireless Weblog, on September 17, 2007
...d Oswald . "In March, Deustche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann said that the company planned to make acquisitions in the mobile phone sector. Several regional GSM carriers other than SunCom remain, alt...
Supply Chain Execution Market is growing by 10%
in Supplychainer, on September 16, 2007
... barely changed from 2003, despite the fact that virtually all of the top 10 suppliers had made SCE acquisitions."
A Diverse Market
SCE is a diverse market composed of enterprise resource...
Loftware Offers Integration Connectivity Software Suite for Managing Merged or Acquired Supply Chains
in Supplychainer, on September 4, 2007
...ds to the Loftware offerings an improved toolset for managing label issues that arise from mergers, acquisitions or supply-chain expansion. Within the next 90 days, the Company said it will release ad...
Bonus pay and the Rolls Royce waiting list
in Sox First, on August 28, 2007
...alked about here and here . Now we have a report in The Guardian that the boom in mergers and acquisitions, hedge fund activity and private equity buyouts in London has driven bonuses to a recor...
Infosys on the changing "global business environment"
in The CIO Weblog, on August 25, 2007
...isting customers get bigger and more important, some of the work's got to be done here.
"Acquisitions can bring you clients," as well as U.S.-based labor, Gopalakrishnan conceded. &quo...
Indian Outsourcers to Continue Acquisitions!
in The CIO Weblog, on August 21, 2007
...ears, that strategy for U.S. expansion isn't as easy as it might seem, Nivsarkar said.
"Acquisitions in the IT services sector [between companies in India and the United States] tend to be...
Avid Life Media Acquires AshleyMadison.com
in The Dating Weblog, on August 17, 2007
...remain with AshleyMadison as the company Spokesperson. "AshleyMadison is just one of the acquisitions we hope to execute on in the coming months," said Noel Biderman, President of Avid...
People Want Snakeoil, Ooma Taking Orders
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 13, 2007
I suppose I should file this under the "Sucker born every minute" category.
According to the Ooma PR folks, people really want their stuff. As a result, they're now starting to take orders. You can either call them and order now, with a September ship date, or you can leave y...
Genral Motors CIO's thoughts on Oracle Acquisition strategy
in The CIO Weblog, on August 6, 2007
...f its top vendors. Information Week has on interview with GM CIO Ralph Szygenda on Oracle and its acquisitions, below are some excerpts.
InformationWeek : What's your impression of Oracl...
Cognizant Q2 - Earnings Call
in The CIO Weblog, on August 5, 2007
...lations in Europe, which limit or prevent the displacement of existing workers in Europe.
Acquisitions : Our acquisition program is ongoing. We are always looking out there to see where ther...
The bear turns global
in Sox First, on August 1, 2007
...o other debt which would in turn drive up the cost of corporate borrowing and undermine mergers and acquisitions that have fueled the growth of global markets. Analysts and brokers I have spoken to s...
Sponsored Post: Boom in RFID will be reflected in Europe's Leading Conference
in Supplychainer, on July 30, 2007
...11.58 million in the hands of Cubic Transportation Systems.
Little wonder that there is a rush of acquisitions and investments in the RFID industry, because few other electronics sectors see this le...
Sponsored Post: Boom in RFID will be reflected in Europe's Leading Conference
in RFID Weblog, on July 30, 2007
...11.58 million in the hands of Cubic Transportation Systems.
Little wonder that there is a rush of acquisitions and investments in the RFID industry, because few other electronics sectors see this le...
Sponsored Post: Boom in RFID will be reflected in Europe's Leading Conference
in The RFID Weblog, on July 30, 2007
...11.58 million in the hands of Cubic Transportation Systems.
Little wonder that there is a rush of acquisitions and investments in the RFID industry, because few other electronics sectors see this le...
Conversation with EVP EDS Apps Services - Charlie Feld
in The CIO Weblog, on July 29, 2007
...rn, self-service, B2B exchanges on thin infrastructures that are aged without modernizing those.
Acquisitions : The question was, is acquisition more important? From an applications point of view, ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 24
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 25, 2007
...book value has grown from $19 to $40,442, a gain of 23.6% compounded annually.
Berkshire made some acquisitions in 2000, with perhaps the most well-known of those companies being Benjamin Moore Paint...
2007: A busy year for M&A activities in Logistics
in Supplychainer, on July 19, 2007
After the busy 2006 in which there were approximately $7 billion in mergers and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics market, activity in this space through the first seven months of this year appears to be maintaining that momentum, according to Logistics Management Ma...
Sponsored Post: Active RFID and Sensor Networks from IDTechEx
in Supplychainer, on July 16, 2007
... the companies involved are in active RFID. 22% are in the particularly popular RTLS sector. Recent acquisitions also favour active RFID companies. Indeed the largest exit, for hundreds of millions of...
