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		<title><![CDATA[Revolution gets $9 million and Nie]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[REvolution Computing, which is commercializing the open source R language, got a $9 million venture capital infusion and a new CEO, Norman Nie. Nie, a political science specializing in polling, previously founded SPSS in 1968, and managed to have an outstanding academic career while running the company for nearly 40...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:32:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM buys SPSS for USD1.2.bn]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ IBM will pay USD1.2bn to acquire SSPS. SSPS provides predictive analysis software, helping companies to predict market conditions. IBM plans to add SPSS's operations to its Information on Demand software unit.          The acquisition is consistent with IBM's plans to become a...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM buys SPSS for USD1.2bn]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ IBM has completed the USD1.2bn acquisition of SPSS, which provides analysis software that helps companies to predict market conditions. The acquisition is consistent with IBM's plans to become a provider of services software. It has acquired 27 companies in the business intelligence and analytics industry so far.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:34:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is IBM's Acquisition of SPSS Too Late?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel West submits:  IBM is spending $1.2b to buy Chicago-based SPSS, one of the three major statistics and data mining software companies. The cash offer is a 42% premium to its previous close and 2.6x anticipated revenues.Most academics know SPSS for its eponymous statistics software that is the standard...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:02:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM's Tuesday 'Doubleheader': Still Behind It's Usual Yearly M&A Pace]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits:  by Brenon Daly In a highly unusual move, IBM did the M&A equivalent of a &#8216;Tuesday twofer,&#8217; buying both big and small on Tuesday. In terms of the high-dollar deal, Big Blue said it will hand  over nearly $1.17bn in cash for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:42:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM's Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition Is Smart Infrastructure]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Michael Hickins was right when he said that IBM's acquisition of SPSS helped it get its hands on a rapidly growing market. But the real upside is not in depriving SAP of an area of business intelligence that it might have been smart in wanting. The big win...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:26:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM's Buy Stunts SAP's Intelligence]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM's planned acquisition of data analysis software specialist SPSS for $1.2 billion in cash adds an important element to its array of applications intended to help companies run more efficiently, while depriving rival applications vendor SAP of a key partner in a market segment that IBM claims is growing by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:07:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Monster Merger: IBM Buys SPSS for About $1.2 Billion in Cash]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch submits:   By Robin Wauters IBM is buying analytics software and solutions provider SPSS in an all cash transaction at a price of $50/share - a 42 percent premium to Monday&#8217;s closing price of $35.09 on Nasdaq - resulting in a total cash consideration in the merger of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[IBM buys software firm SPSS for USD1.2bn]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ IBM is buying Chicago-based software analytics firm SPSS in an all-cash deal worth USD1.2bn. The move is designed to bolster IBM's existing information management software portfolio, in a bid to provide broader predictive data services to a range of business customers. The buyout was agreed at a price of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:53:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SPSS Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session  Operator  Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Nathan Schneiderman &#8211; Roth Capital Partners.  Analyst for Nathan Schneiderman &#8211; Roth Capital Partners How was the linearity in the quarter? How much was booked in January, February and March and could you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 18:16:21 -0700</pubDate>
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