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- MathStar's Moves Don't Add Up
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly After about a decade in business as a fables semiconductor vendor, MathStar hasn’t been doing much of anything for the past year. We mean that literally. The Pink Sheets-listed company has no ongoing business, no products and, as of Wednesday,...
- External links 2009-07-17
- After Going Public, Will Fortinet Go Shopping?
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Not that Fortinet FRTN actually needs more cash to go shopping, but the company will likely substantially fatten its treasury by the end of the year. Officially, the security vendor, which has been generating cash for the past three years,...
- External links 2009-08-13
- VMWare Reaches for the Clouds
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly About a year and a half after Paul Maritz got picked up by EMC, the former Microsoft MSFT honcho has struck his signature deal for his new employers. When EMC reached for Pi Corp, which had yet to release...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Sourcefire's 'No Sale' Turns Into a Great Deal for Shareholders
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly With Barracuda Networks looking to gobble up Austrian IT security vendor phion, we thought we’d look back on the other time the rapacious privately held firm eyed a public company. Last summer, Barracuda launched an unsolicited bid for Sourcefire, FIRE...
- External links 2009-08-15
- Oracle's Reach for Sun Slowed by European Regulators
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Having gotten the all clear on this side of the Atlantic, Oracle ORCL is now waiting for the EU to sign off on its pending purchase of Sun Microsystems JAVA. And the company will have to wait...
- External links 2009-08-26
- CoSentry Networks: More VC Dollars Consumed by the NAC Bonfire
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly It’s difficult – if not impossible – to point to any area of technology this year with a more consistently god-awful ROI than network access control (NAC). At this point, the return for VCs on their bets in the NAC...
- External links 2009-08-28
- The Bubble for Social Networking M&A Has Popped
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Thomas Rasmussen In a sign of just how far the social networking market has fallen, brightsolid’s $42m purchase earlier this month of Friends Reunited from ITV Plc stands as the largest deal in the sector so far in 2009. The price is...
- External links 2009-08-28
- Will Taleo Return to the M&A Market?
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Having crossed the anniversary of its acquisition of Vurv Technology earlier this summer, Taleo TLEO recently indicated that it is looking to return to the M&A market. (Shares of the human capital management vendor trade essentially where they did...
- External links 2009-08-30
- VMware's Future Forecast: Increasing 'Cloudiness'
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Just three weeks after VMware VMW inked its company-defining acquisition of SpringSource, the virtualization kingpin threw the doors open on its annual VMworld conference yesterday. (We can only hope that those who attended the get-together found it smoother than...
- External links 2009-09-01
- EMC's Use of Advisors: It's All or Nothing
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: Brenon Daly After EMC EMC doled out no fewer than nine credits to different banks for working on its acquisition of Data Domain, we were curious how the deal credits would flow around the largest-ever purchase by EMC subsidiary VMware VMW....
- External links 2009-08-12
- Concur Takes a Transatlantic Shopping Trip
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: After being out of the M&A market for two years, Concur Technologies CNQR reached across the Atlantic earlier this week for a small Paris-based startup to help expand its business in Europe. Currently, business outside of the US accounts for about 10% of...
- External links 2009-08-08
- Google First: Acquiring a Public Company
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly In the five years since Google GOOG went public, the serial shopper has picked up some 40 other companies. It has bought its way into security, collaboration software, mapping, video and voice, among other areas. And it has inked deals...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Software AG Looking for an M&A Repeat
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly Having significantly whittled down the debt it picked up acquiring webMethods two years ago, Software AG (STWRY.PK) is now ready to add on a bit more to cover its pending purchase of IDS Scheer (IDSRF.PK). It plans to borrow some...
- External links 2009-07-18
- MathStar Ongoing Deal Saga Gets Curiouser and Curiouser
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: As the tender offer for MathStar (MATH.PK) runs into its final hours, there’s a new twist in the already-twisted saga around this Pink Sheets-listed company. First, a bit of a recap. In early June, hedge fund Tiberius Capital tossed out an unsolicited bid...
- External links 2009-07-21
- A Happy One Year Anniversary for Brocade's Foundry Acquisition
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly As far as Wall Street is concerned, nothing has really happened to Brocade Communications BRCD over the past year. Shares in the storage and networking vendor trade exactly where they did this time last July. And yet, there have been...
- External links 2009-07-21
- Micro Focus/Borland Merger: Quiet Close After Noisy Process
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly After more than two months of back-and-forth negotiations, Micro Focus (MCFUF.PK) is set to take home Borland Software BORL. Shareholders in Borland approved the $113m deal on Wednesday and Micro Focus shareholders signed off on it on Friday. Originally announced...
- External links 2009-07-25
- IBM's Tuesday 'Doubleheader': Still Behind It's Usual Yearly M&A Pace
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly In a highly unusual move, IBM did the M&A equivalent of a ‘Tuesday twofer,’ 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...
- External links 2009-07-30
- Multiple and Solo Advisors to EMC/Data Domain Deal
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly It’s often said that there are three types of falsehoods: lies, damn lies and statistics. To that list, we might be tempted to add a fourth category: league tables. That’s in the front of our minds because we just put...
- External links 2009-08-02
- Security Industry SaaS Deals Echo Each Other
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly There are more than a few echoes of Symantec’s SYMC purchase of MessageLabs last October in McAfee’s reach last week for MX Logic. In terms of strategy, both acquisitions added millions of end users of on-demand security to...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Cisco: Perfect Home for eBay's Skype?
- The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Thomas Rasmussen In eBay’s EBAY recent report on second-quarter results, the online auction house announced a somewhat disappointing performance in its two core businesses, Payments and Marketplaces, but did see strong results from a surprising source: Skype. The VoIP service increased year-over-year...
- External links 2009-08-06
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