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Microsoft sells off part of its FAST enterprise-search acquisition

Microsoft has sold off two units of Fast Search and Transfer, the Norweigian enterprise search company it bought in 2008 for $1.23 billion, to Rocket Software. Rocket announced the sale on December 2. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Enterprise Search, Acquisition, Microsoft Corp., Rocket Software Inc., Cloud Computing, Search, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-12-02

Google to beef up display ads with acquisition of Teracent

Microsoft will be in troubleWith Google sitting on your front porch, MS is going to have a hard time pushing them off.

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Google Inc., acquisition, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Google to beef up display ads with acquisition of Teracent

Google is looking to build its display advertising business with an acquisition of Teracent. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Advertisement, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Google increases potential of Google Voice with Gizmo5 acquisition

Google's acquisition of Gizmo5 increases the potential for Google Voice to be built into other Web services, including Google Talk, Gmail or Google Wave by Sam Diaz

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Voice, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-13

Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante

3Com has storage switch product?!Does 3Com has storage switch product line? Never heard of this!!RE: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the anteall out war! all out war!

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, 3Com Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook

Cisco's painThis will cause Cisco serious pain:http://www.sramanamitra.com/2009/11/11/hp-acquires-3com/Another Wal_Mart mega corpWho really cares, these mega-corps paynothing and have crummy benefits.RE: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlookCisco vs HP vs IBM/Juniper/Brocade.Whose gonna come out on top!

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Cisco Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., 3Com Corp., acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante

HP's acquisition of 3Com fills out a few key parts in HP's networking portfolio. HP is clearly going hard after Cisco. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., 3Com Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-11

HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook

HP announced plans to acquire networking company 3Com for an estimated $2.7 billion and raised its guidance for full year revenue and earnings. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., 3Com Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Networking, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Google spent about $780 million today

Two acquisitions were announced today -- together totaling around $800 million dollars. This comes about a month and a half after Eric Schmidt told us that acquisitions are back on. Both acquisitions are significant -- but one cost a lot more than the other. AdMob...

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Phone, AdMob, Gizmo5, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Oracle: EC has 'profound misunderstanding' of database market; DOJ seems to agree

Oracle says today that European regulators have a "profound misunderstanding" of the technologies behind Oracle's acquisition of Sun and that there is no evidence of anti-competitive behavior to hold up the acquisition. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Acquisition, Database, Oracle Corp., U.S. Department Of Justice, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Cisco continues its buying spree with ScanSafe acquisition

Cisco, which has been on a bit of a shopping spree for technology companies lately, announced today that it will acquire Web security company ScanSafe for about $183 million. The deal is expected to close early next year. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Acquisition, Spree, ScanSafe, Cisco Systems Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License GPL, and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that Stallman says will cause a "major setback" to the development of the free database if the...

Tags: GPL, Acquisition, MySQL, Richard Stallman, Stallman, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Corporate Law, Databases, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Dell and Perot: What this means

Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Dell: Perot Systems purchase an 'anchor' acquisition; More deals likely

Perot PurchaseIt's a brilliant move on two fronts: Service to sell more hardware and subjugation replace HP and IBM with Dell hardware and SANS.Dell once again proves why they outsell HP and IBM 2-to-1 in many market spaces....RE: Dell: Perot Systems purchase an 'anchor' acquisition; More deals likelyPretty good deal...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Dell Computer Corp., Perot Systems Corp., acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Dell acquisition of IT services group was inevitable

Dell needed a large IT services group to gain in data center markets...and that's what Cisco needs too... by Tom Foremski

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, Data Centers, It Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Dell: Perot Systems purchase an 'anchor' acquisition; More deals likely

Dell's $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems gives the company a better foothold in the IT services market, but it's really just the beginning. Dell's purchase of Perot Systems is a down payment on the company's big plans to transform its business. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Oracle's Q1: "We grew faster than SAP"

Oracle Corp., which is facing a delay of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today reported first quarter non-GAAP earnings of $1.5 billion, or 30 cents per share, a three-percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $5.1 billion, a 7 percent drop from last year. Wall Street...

Tags: Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., SAP AG, Earnings, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, GAAP, Corporate Law, Databases, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Google scores a 2-for-1 with reCAPTCHA acquisition

Google said today that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs, those squiggly words in a box that you have to type to verify that you are a real person and not a computer bot. The technology is widely used - more than 100,000 Web...

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Computer, Productivity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Sprint extends unlimited plan to businesses; Shares jump on acquisition rumors

Uh, didn't Sprint and Nextel use "different" technologies?I see the "technology" issue as a short term "problem". No technology seems to have the "killer" superiority so the main issue is portability and wide spread world wide coverage. Even that cannot make up for BAD customer service.RE: Sprint extends...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Sprint Communications, Nextel Communications Inc., acquisition, acquisition rumor

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Sprint extends unlimited plan to businesses; Shares jump on acquisition rumors

Sprint said today that it's rolling out new pricing plans for business customers, including the new "Any Mobile, Anytime" offering that it announced for consumers last week. Called Business Advantage, the new offerings are an extension of Sprint's aggressive campaign to lure back customers who left following...

Tags: Acquisition, Sprint Communications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pricing, Corporate Law, Marketing Research, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-14