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
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...
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,...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
SpectroGL is a software application for Windows 2000 and XP that provides real-time spectrum analysis of sound, using your sound card as the acquisition device. SpectroGL can acquire data on independent audio channels and create 5 different data plots, all updated in real time. SpectroGL can capture data plots into...
BPM and SOATake it from me, there is a rich culture of thinkers at Software AG who see the connection between BPM and SOA and the way in which technology elements can help foster both agendas.As for Jason Bloomberg's comment about the acquisition being "about" vertical expertise, let me comment...
MySpace on Wednesday announced an agreement to acquire iLike, a leading social music discovery service. The acquisition brings together two companies who share a common vision revolving around social discovery and distribution of quality content. by Andrew Nusca
Another topic for our panel this week is the seemingly inevitable trend toward Web oriented architecture WOA, most notably supported by Google's announcement of the Google Chrome operating system OS. by Dana Gardner
I smell M$ hereWho is most interested in this deal not completing...M$!The price was more than fair, only some shareholders that were promissed more ca$h by M$ could have come with this frivolous lawsuit.RE: On2 shareholders sue to stop Google acquisitionNovember 6, 2008 - 5:00 PM EasternThird Quarter 2008 Results...
On2 Technologies, the video compression company acquired by Google last week, has been sued by shareholders looking for a better deal. According to an SEC filing Techmeme, two class action suits were filed in Delaware and New York State. According to On2: Both complaints generally allege, among...
Earnouts are those interesting residual matters that pop up in some acquisitions. An earnout exists to provide a transition period between some of the acquired firm’s owners and the new owner/management team. Earnouts are certainly valuable for an acquirer when there are key persons in the acquired organization who can...
IBM dropped a big bombshell at the start of any already action-packed day for the analyst community. At this moment, I’m sitting, along with several dozen of my peers from Forrester and other firms, at the IBM Smart Analytics System launch event in Hawthorne NY. I’ll blog on IBM’s other...
Amazon has dropped the price of the Kindle 2 to $299, a $60 drop that may stoke demand. But Amazon's move has more to do with scale than any competitive threat. Let's face it: A $299 Kindle 2 still isn't cheap, but it is quite notable that...
"When MySQL got acquired by Sun, a lot of that community got fractured," Boyajian told BriefingsDirect. "That fracturing started with Sun and continues with Oracle so I think that will have an impact on adoption patterns." by Dana Gardner
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