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- 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...
- Tags: Xerox Corp., ACS, Chances, Document Management, Operational Planning, Managerial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Managed Hosting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- 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...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Brian, Public Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- 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...
- Tags: Virgin Group, Investment, Virgin Galactic, Aabar Investments, Business Structures, Aerospace & Defense, Network Technology, Finance, Manufacturing, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- 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...
- Tags: Acquisition, Skype Technologies S.A., StumbleUpon, eBay Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Technology, Corporate Law, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- 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....
- Tags: Acquisition, Layoff, Satyam, IBM Corp., Workforce Management, Corporate Governance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- 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...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nope, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Nuance lands IBM partnership; $175 million capital infusion
- Nuance Communications, which makes speech recognition software for companies, consumers and telecom carriers, said Thursday that it has inked a licensing and technology pact with IBM. Separately, Warburg Pincus bought $175 million worth of Nuance stock. Under the IBM deal, Nuance and IBM will collaborate on speech...
- Tags: Partnership, Nuance, Warburg Pincus, IBM Corp., Business Structures, Speech Recognition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Call Centers, Telecommunications, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Investment, It Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- I won't have to blog about the Detroit automakers again until next year
- Congratulations, fellow American, you and I are now part-owners or at least managers in absentia of two of the most crippled manufacturing companies on earth--that being General Motors and Chrysler. Should we urge a merge? How many more billions of dollars will we fork over before this nightmare...
- Tags: Detroit, Blog, Chrysler LLC, Loan, T, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Slicing up Sun
- Slicing up SunDell seems a better fit.If any company could make money on Sun's current products, Sun itself is the most likely to do so. That Sun cannot produce profits means that the buyers would not be interested in continuing what Sun is now doing.Sun's most important assets are...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, OPEN SOURCE, Manufacturing hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Mervyns ââ¬" The cautionary tale of selling oneââ¬â¢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...
- Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Firm, Mervyns, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Oh Mamma.com: SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider trading; Cuban responds
- Updated: The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that it has charged Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 shares of Mamma.com. Specifically, the SEC says that search engine Mamma.com, known today as Copernic, invited Cuban--owner of the Dallas Mavericks and former Yahoo and Broadcast.com exec--to...
- Tags: SEC, Mark Cuban, Mamma.com, PIPE, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Does Sprint have a Nextel nibble?
- The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, is reporting that Sprint Nextel has received interest in its Nextel business from Latin American carrier NII Holdings Inc. and several private-equity firms. But this is far from a done deal. Sprint has been exploring a sale of Nextel but...
- Tags: Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Click Heels 3 Times and Say 'I want to IPO, I want to IPO'
- Alas Liquidity Events, I Knew Them Well.... If only wanting a liquidity event and getting it were that easy. As we say back in Texas, “'wantin’ and ‘gettin’ are two different thingsâ€. For technology executives looking for a liquidity event for their firm, the...
- Tags: M&A, Liquidity, Liquidity Event, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- What Yahoo doesn't want you to know about the Microsoft deal
- After fighting against its disclosure for weeks, lawyers for Yahoo! have finally lost their battle to keep the details of a shareholder lawsuit hidden. They had released a public version on May 15th, but most of the interesting parts were deleted. Exactly what were they trying to hide? ...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Compensation, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Why a Yahoo-News Corp. deal makes sense
- News Corp. is reportedly talking to Yahoo about an arrangement that would look a lot like a joint venture. It's unclear how these talks will play out, but the structure of the deal is far superior to Microsoft's proposed integration go-round. The Wall Street Journal, AP and...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., News Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- 3Com may divest TippingPoint to seal takeover with Feds
- Bain Capital, the private equity firm trying to engineer a takeover of 3Com with Huawei Technologies, is reportedly offering to divest security software firm TippingPoint to win U.S. approval. According to Reuters, Bain offered up TippingPoint and other proposals to safeguard national security interests. ...
- Tags: 3Com Corp., TippingPoint Technologies, Intrusion Detection, IPO, Network Security, Security, Financial Services, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- As Microhoo turns: In today's episode Google goes gunshy; News Corp plays ball
- These incremental Microsoft-Yahoo updates can get tiring. At least we're not killing trees with them. As a public service, here's a roundup of the latest chatter about Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. Google gets cold feet. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that has lost enthusiasm...
- Tags: Google Inc., TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Inc., Asset Management, Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- 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...
- Tags: Private Equity, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Regulations, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Government, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
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