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HP's to-do list following EDS Acquisition: HP's to-do list following EDS acquisitionLayoffs, not performnce, then.Mr. Hurd is appropriately known for his executions.Any expected improvements for customers, except perhaps a reduction in price? Or is Compaq a good model?RE: HP's to-do list following EDS acquisitionIt will be interesting if EDS - An HP company will be...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Electronic Data Systems Corp., EDS acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., acquisition; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
HP's to-do list following EDS Acquisition: We now know that HP is acquiring EDS in what appears to be an agreed bid that values EDS at $13.9 billion. Larry Dignan has the main analysis but it leaves open a series of testing questions for HP CEO Mark Hurd. As Larry points out: Overall, Wall Street...; Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Corporate Law, Asset Management, Construction, It Services, It Operations, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Why MSFT must make an Acquisition in online media: Why MSFT must make an acquisition in online mediaAnti-economies of scaleYou can't just be a big fat monster and demand more more more.Humans are cleverer than that.MS should mitigate the importance of searchI personally believe having ad overlays on music tracks and video could be a great way to mitigate...; Tags: Engineering, Microsoft Corp., algorithm, search algorithm, Google Inc., Web page, online media, MSFT, acquisition; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Why MSFT must make an Acquisition in online media: Businessweek's cover story is: "Inside Microsoft's War Against Google - With Yahoo off the table, Microsoft plans to challenge Google's online-ad juggernaut alone. A behind-the-scenes look at its provocative strategy." This behind the scenes look isn't very deep. It mostly centers on MSFT's "top U.S. salesman for...; Tags: Acquisition, Advertisement, Online Media, Microsoft Corp., Online Advertising, MSFT, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-09
The four horsemen of SaaS: Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...; Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-06

Is Yahoo is best way for Microsoft to spend its cash?: Microsoft is likely to prevail in its Yahoo bid -- and most likely without raising its offer. But just because Microsoft can buy the No. 2 search vendor doesn't necessarily mean it should. Those are the results of a new poll of Wall Street analysts by Reuters....; Tags: Acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Analyst, Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-16
A look back at Microsoft's advertising-related Acquisitions: A look back at Microsoft's advertising-related acquisitionsWhat's the big deal?Any bully can take over more and more neighborhoods, as long as everybody is too afraid to stop him!Hmmm, acquisitions . . Google, Sun, IBMOracle, all of them buying some other small fish. How bully.; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, acquisition, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-03-14
A look back at Microsoft's advertising-related Acquisitions: On March 14, Microsoft acquired another Web-advertising vendor, Rapt. It's clear: The Redmondians are building out their advertising portfolio through acquisitions. Microsoft was thwarted in its attempt to buy (and then block-Google's acquisition of) DoubleClick. And it's still uncertain whether Microsoft will pull off...; Tags: Acquisition, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-14
Thoughts on AOL's Bebo Acquisition: Thoughts on AOL's Bebo acquisitionthe audience is differenti doubt this acquisition is suitable for Aol - considering their positioning in the online media scape as more adult - upmarket, while Bebo audience counts on a very young and active online population, i wonder whether this will make more harm than...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Branding, Bebo, America Online Inc., Bebo acquisition, acquisition; Discussion threads 2008-03-13
Thoughts on AOL's Bebo Acquisition: Rumors of Google or News Corp.-owned MySpace buying Bebo have proved to be a smokescreen for the social networking site's new owner: Time Warner Inc.'s AOL. In a statement released this morning, AOL said it had acquired Bebo for $850 million in cash (pending U.S. and EU...; Tags: Bebo, Acquisition, America Online Inc., British Broadcasting Corp., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-03-13
EU approves Google's DoubleClick Acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripples: EU approves Google's DoubleClick acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripplesIsn't that wonderfulEuro trash approves the merger of two American companies. Pfffttt.....I can see I may have to find a different search engine...... unless Google cans doubleclick entirely. Doubleclick is flat out intrusive, underhanded, and intolerable. If...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Euro-trash, Google Inc., illegal war, advertisement, DoubleClick Inc., acquisition; Discussion threads 2008-03-11
EU approves Google's DoubleClick Acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripples: Updated below: European regulators on Tuesday approved Google's purchase of DoubleClick setting up the search giant's big splash in the display advertising market. According to the EU's competition committee, Google's $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick isn't a threat to competition because Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are credible...; Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Advertisement, Ad Serving, DoubleClick Inc., Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?: Time to call the Red Hat-JBOSS deal a failure?so we should all abandon OSS?Hi Dana,I have a few issues with your post (I was with JBoss from early 2004 until I left Red Hat in November 2007 by the way). Because SpringSource is holding user events in 5-star resorts,...; Tags: Java development tools, Mergers & Acquisitions, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Middleware, RHT, JBoss, SpringSource, OSS, acquisition; Discussion threads 2008-03-04
Additional thoughts on Novell Acquisition of PlateSpin: After posting Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor? I had the chance to speak with Novell and PlateSpin once again. It is clear that the two companies had focused on different management technologies for virtual environments and that there where quite a number of opportunities for a...; Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Acquisition, Environment, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Sun completes MySQL purchase; Eyes more open source Acquisitions: Sun said Tuesday that it has completed the purchase of MySQL for $1 billion and CEO Jonathan Schwartz indicated the company plans to keep shopping for open source acquisitions. "Open source is really in the DNA of Sun," said Schwartz on a conference call to trumpet MySQL...; Tags: Acquisition, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Is Microsoft's Danger play a poke at Apple? Google? (updated): Microsoft said Monday that they're acquiring Palo Alto, CA-based Danger Inc., maker of the T-Mobile Sidekick QWERTY smartphone. Sidekicks feature a novel flip-up screen that reveals a full-size keyboard making easy work of texting and email. It could even be argued that the Sidekick (which the company...; Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Mobile, Operating System, T-Mobile Sidekick, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wikipedia, iLounge, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-02-12
SaaS hoster OpSource buys billing partner: Specialist SaaS hoster OpSource today has announced the acquisition of SaaS billing vendor LeCayla Technologies. OpSource has a number of partners that offer services to its customers, some of them integrated into its real-time service bus — including Aria Systems, another billing vendor — but this is the first time...; Tags: Web, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Billing, Partnership, Aria Systems Inc., OpSource, LeCayla Technologies, Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-02-11
Mergers and Acquisitions: IT Testing Requirements: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are amongst the most strategic decisions that are taken in the corporate world. Whether private or public, directors of companies that engage in the M&A arena must ensure that they take all practical steps to ensure that shareholder value is at least preserved and, ideally, enhanced...; Tags: Shareholder, Acquisition, Merger, M&A, Information Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations; White papers 2008-02-10
Does an Oracle Acquisition of Salesforce make sense?: I just heard from a reliable source that Salesforce.com has told Oracle that it would be willing to be acquired at $75 per share. That's about a 50 per cent premium from Friday's close of $50.87. I'm checking with other sources but I think such a deal...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-02-09
Another ERP vendor buys into middleware: The scale may be different, but the same market forces that fueled Oracle's acquisition of BEA have sealed another acquisition announced today: that of SOA middleware vendor Cape Clear Software by on-demand enterprise applications vendor Workday also covered today here on ZDNet by Dan Farber and Dana Gardner. Increasingly, customers...; Tags: Acquisition, Cape Clear Software, Oracle Corp., ERP, Workday, Integration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-02-06