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- Mervyns â€" The cautionary tale of selling one’s business
- Too Many Cooks Spoil the Livelihoods of Thousands BusinessWeek (12/6/2008) did a great job of dissecting of what went wrong in the collapse of U. S. retailer, Mervyns (see "What Have You Done to My Company"). The subtitle of the story pretty much sums up the...
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Why Do Private Equity Firms Underachieve Their Planned ROI?
- This paper has made the point that private equity firms have a tendency to overplan but under-execute their value-creation activities. Optimists will chalk this up to human nature. Investors who are the customers of private equity firms, however, have aggressive expectations. Any results that are below the targeted ROI will...
- White papers 2008-09-01
- 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
- The Carlyle Group Cuts Costs, Increases Productivity With E-Mail - Filtering Service
- The Carlyle Group is a global, private equity firm with 25 offices and 650 employees. The firm currently has U.S.$39 billion in committed capital, making it one of the largest private equity firms in the world. During the past several years, some of the firm's senior managers had become plagued...
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- Let's do this now, why wait?
- Okay that makes no sense at allThe people paying the energy bills for these buildings aren't the same people who would benefit from preserving the status quo.Perhaps he'd get more traction if he changed his company to a non profit staffed 100% with non paid volunteers that wrote and gave...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet
- Updated: Xerox said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services in a cash and stock deal valued at $6.4 billion. The move is a big bet to transform Xerox into a services company that does everything from collecting tolls and installing government systems to retooling business processes and information technology...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- TIBCO and SAP: place your bets
- Yesterday, Larry Dignan asked my opinion of persistent rumors that SAP is in the middle of taking a tilt at acquiring TIBCO. I rolled my digital eyeballs. How many times has this one gone around the block? As Brian Sommer yelled: ONCE A POTENTIAL ACQUISITION IS PASSED ON, IT...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment
- Sir Richard Branson unveiled his latest aircraft, or rather spacecraft. In a few years, for $200,000, thrill seekers will be able to ride into sub-orbit space. Separately, Virgin Galactic landed a $280 million investment from Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments. In this raw video, you get a look at...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?
- Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?No.Govt. sponsored research is only a big edge for products where the government is the customer (nuclear bombs, stealth jets, tanks, etc.)When the market decides that green products and tech is desirable, then a market with less government baggage will produce...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- U.S. CTO: Infrastructure growth needs private sector investment
- The technology backbone of the United States needs a major overhaul and government alone can't do it, the nation's first chief technology officer said today. It's going to take a cooperative effort, including a massive influx of "hundreds of billions" of private capital dollars, for the U.S. to catch up...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPO
- EBay will recoup some of its losses on Skype via an initial public offering. Or at least that's what the online auctioneer is hoping. In a statement, eBay seems to have given its reply to the buyback plans of Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- eBay starts undoing bad acquisitions: Sets StumbleUpon free
- StumbleUpon is a startup again as the original founders and a few well-heeled investors bought it back from eBay. The next question: When will Skype leave the eBay fold? In a statement blog, StumbleUpon said its two year run as a subsidiary of eBay is over. StumbleUpon founders...
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Confusion and controversy continue at Satyam
- Satyam, the Indian outsourcing company at the center of a massive fraud investigation continues to be mired in confusion and controversy. Earlier in the week, the company's former CFO appeared to give two PricewaterhouseCoopers audit partners a pass, saying: ...that auditors S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Satyam, IBM - Layoffs, Acquisitions, Rumors
- Moving deck chairs around the globe According to today's Wall Street Journal, IBM is going to do some blood-letting. About 5,000 U.S. employees may get the axe. The company has approximately 400,000 employees globally but, more importantly, the firm continues to expand its ranks in non-U.S. markets....
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Spotlight on Austin: BuzzStream's Paul May
- Even though South by Southwest Interactive SXSWi ended yesterday, I have one more installment of my Spotlight on Austin series. Next up is Paul May, CEO and co-founder of BuzzStream, a company that makes tracking and managing and promoting links a lot easier for Internet marketers. BuzzStream, the youngest company...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herring
- Someone has floated a trial balloon, through a leak to the Wall Street Journal, that IBM is in "talks" to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion. The only party that would leak this information is Sun itself, and it smacks of desperation in trying to thwart an unwanted acquisition, or...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Think Infor is only in maintenance mode? Think again
- Infor is one of those vendors I'd pretty much written off as a company that might be interesting. Rolling up a rag bag of distressed software vendors is not my idea of innovation but of financial engineering where you usually have to carefully watch the bang per buck coming out...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Satyam: resignations, appointments and YouTube videos
- When we last reported on the $1 billion fraud scandal at Satyam Computer Services in India, brothers Ramaling and Rama Raju, former chairman and former managing director and CEO, respectively, had been arrested and the full board of directors had been let go. Today, that new...
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- 5 tips to reduce outsourcing risk
- 5 tips to reduce outsourcing riskOutsourcing is unpatriotic ntntMost important tip to reducing outsourcing riskOutsource to US companies!RE: 5 tips to reduce outsourcing riskI can give 1 good tip for reducing the risk, DO NOT OUT SOURCE, why put your companies valuableassets at risk to save a few bucks, you...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- Bucking the trend, handful of open source players attract VC funding
- Venture capital spending is down eight percent nationally yet a number of open source companies have scored big funding wins as of late. Talend, which develops open source data integration software including Open Studio, this week announced it secured $12 million from investors Balderton Capital,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
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