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- Yahoo's conundrum: White knights are hard to find
- Yahoo is reportedly holding out hopes that there's an alternative to Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited takeover, but it's becoming clear that white knights are missing in action. According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is studying alternatives to Microsoft's bid hoping that it can avoid a...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- What Can 2007 Teach Us About 2008?
- 2007 was a tumultuous year for U.S. businesses and employees, filled with extreme highs and disappointing lows. Private equity garnered nearly $400 billion in mega deals in merely six months, and news of multiple billion-dollar acquisitions (Chrysler, Alltel and CKX) illustrated a trend of public companies going private. However, financial...
- White papers 2007-10-01
- My hunch: Vonage's silence could mean looming private equity deal. And then....
- My hunch: Vonage's silence could mean looming private equity deal. And then....Vonage is in the middle of a spam scandalVonage spams customers, burns influentials, gets people really angryVonage is harvesting names from their refer-a-friend program to send spam promotions. Warning: If you use the Vonage refer-a-friend program, they will harvest...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- My hunch: Vonage's silence could mean looming private equity deal. And then....
- Fellow blogger Andy Abramson notes that Vonage- they of the new press release every day- has been awful quiet on that front for at least the last two weeks.Andy thinks, as do I, that this could mean something big is up. After all, why put out flotsam that some...
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Avaya agrees to private equity buyout: here's what comes next
- IP telecommunications systems provider Avaya says this morning that it has agreed to a buyout offer of $8.2 billion in cash, or $17.50 a share, from private equity firms TPG Capital and Silver Lake.No surprise there. Nortel had kicked the tires and Cisco took a whiff but I felt...
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Does private equity mean a boon for offshore outsourcing?
- Patni Computer Systems, an Indian outsourcing company, plans to aim its services at private equity firms in a move that makes a lot of sense given the acquisition barrage in the U.S. To wit: On Monday, TPG and Goldman Sachs bought Alltel for $25 billion. Last week Cerberus Capital Management...
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Forbes: patent trollers fueled by hedge funds, private equity
- Since we are awaiting a Vonage-Verizon patent infringement decision by end of today, this article Ive just read has special relevance. None of the parties in this article are directly tied to Vonage, but I think you might appreciate a broader take on what is going on with all...
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Xactly closes new round, Bezos buys Expensewatch
- Some interesting funding news just in from a pair of successful SaaS vendors. Fast-growing sales incentive management vendor Xactly closed a $15 million series C round. As C rounds go, thats quite a substantial figure. Even more out-of-the-ordinary is the news that expense and spend management vendor Expensewatch.com has been...
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Enterprise Transformation and Network Architecture: Constructing a Platform for Business Value Acceleration
- Whether the company is being strongly affected by globalization, outsourcing, private equity competition, increased regulation, or Web 2.0, it is clear that future requirements for enterprise computing will only be more demanding. To survive and prosper, companies must reduce operating costs, increase automation and control, and prepare to scale the...
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Sun starts to think different; plants private equity seed
- Why would a company with $2.6 billion in cash lying around as of Dec. 31 raise another $700 million from one of private equitys biggest players? Thats a question worth a little reading between the lines. To be sure, Sun Microsystems...
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Will private equity funds gobble up tech and then the rest of corporate America?
- Will private equity funds gobble up tech and then the rest of corporate America?Now that you mention it...Isn't SOX just a tool for the elite to take back "ownership" privileges from middle America...which had perhaps encroached a bit too much into the "ownership" space? Need to keep the serfs...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Will private equity funds gobble up tech and then the rest of corporate America?
- This is a question that I think is one of the most important ones around, because of the massive amount of global capital and the stunning investment returns from taking public companies private. Is it a good trend?Here are some issues:- Will companies emerge leaner and meaner from private equity...
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- IBM could be acquisition target for private equity firms
- IBM could be acquisition target for private equity firmsTaking IBM PrivateThat would be a shocker, but so is the Sun/Intel announcement today. I submit:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/sun-to-product-xeon-based-servers-linux-for-oracle-on-x86_64-really-why/
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- IBM could be acquisition target for private equity firms
- IBM, the worlds largest computer and IT services company, could become an acquisition target for private equity firms said Steve Bengston, managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr Bengston was speaking at a recent lunch panel on trends and predictions for 2007 organized by FountainBlue. Also on the panel was Fred Greguras,...
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Would Microsoft make a good private equity play?
- Would Microsoft make a good private equity play?Its a Joke Right?OK I will bite. Monopolization of talent? Lets get real here. Only the despirate work at Microsoft today. Those who apply for work get calls from their mothers who don't want them working for a known criminal organization. There are...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-21
- Would Microsoft make a good private equity play?
- I'm not sure what they are smoking at The Financial Times today, but it's produced a hallucinogenic $288 billion in unrealized value that Microsoft is failing to deliver to investors. That is, value that would be extracted from the assets if the company were acquired in...
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- Vonage in next 60-90 days: gradual stock slip, more suits, private equity takeover with likely bankruptcy filing
- Vonage in next 60-90 days: gradual stock slip, more suits, private equity takeover with likely bankruptcy filingUnlikely a PE firm going to buy itI disagree. The only hope Vonage has is if a strategic such as Verizon comes in and buys it. No private equity is going to be able...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-23
- Vonage in next 60-90 days: gradual stock slip, more suits, private equity takeover with likely bankruptcy filing
- Today, Saturday June 24, marks exactly a full month since Vonage stock went on sale at a price based on the $17 a share IPO level.Vonage closed yesterday, and the week, at $8.75 a share. Given that Vonage stock is 30 days old, and is little more half its...
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Vonage's future: gradual share price declines, strategic moves, return to private equity
- Vonage's future: gradual share price declines, strategic moves, return to private equityVonage ServicePurchasing Vonage would be a bad move for legitimate company. Their customer service is by far the worse I’ve ever experienced. My ten-day experience with Vonage was a nightmare. Over twenty-five hours on the telephone...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-31
- Vonage's future: gradual share price declines, strategic moves, return to private equity
- Yesterday, Vonage stock dipped to $12.50 a share-a more than 25 percent loss from last Tuesday's $17 a share IPO price.I've seen mountains with less steep declines. Because those investors more affected by uncertainty have already attempted to bail, I sense that Vonage share prices aren't going to tumble...
- Blog posts 2006-05-31
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