Mashable Acquires Micro-Reviews Service Blippr
We’re pleased to announce today Mashable’s acquisition of blippr , ... , books, games, movies and music in 160 characters or less. Our first integration of blippr’s service ... this acquisition make sense? 1. Community + Editorial = Best Combination: While blogs are a key source [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 19:52:36
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Verizon Wireless is officially the largest mobile operator in the States; Alltel is a done deal!
Just as we expected, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Alltel Corporation from Atlantis Holdings ... about the acquisition and new services (i.e. mobile broadband) that will be available to them ... billion. The acquisition expands Verizon Wireless’ network coverage to approximately 290 million people [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 10:43:17
Google’s different voices heading for unison
Google has been speaking in different tongues with its voice strategy, but there are signs that its ambitions in telephony are coming into focus ... . Google had frozen membership of the service since acquisition and Voice will not be available ... ), so integration with its Android operating system will happen as well. Unified communications is shaping [more...]
Date: 2009-03-12 21:09:03
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Click to enlarge Hearsay from "people close to the negotiations" report Google is in late-stage talks to purchase Twitter, ... their five most recent "tweets" across the AdSense network. The first company to try the service was Intuit, parent company of online tax filing service TurboTax.Late last year, acquisition talks [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 09:45:35
Antitrust OKs AT&T-CYCL Merger – Analyst Blog
AT&T; Inc’s ( T ) much anticipated acquisition of regional wireless and wireline service provider Centennial Communications Corp ( CYCL ), has progressed a step further as the US wireless giant has reportedly received a conditional approval of the US Department of Justice (“DOJ"). The acquisition is now subject to the approval of the US telecom regulator Federal Communications Commission. [more...]
Date: 2009-10-15 16:15:00
Evercore and Citic Team Up for Joint Venture
Boutique investment bank Evercore Partners and China's Citic Securities are teaming up to form a joint venture that will provide mergers-and-acquisition advisory services and manage a China-focused private-equity fund ... , is former Bear Stearns executive Donald Tang. While the companies didn't disclose financial [more...]
Date: 2009-03-16 04:07:42
Corporate Acquisition Group Issues Valuation Refund
Over the past two months I have made some posts talking about Ty Tymkovich and Corporate Acquisitions Group. Corporate Acquisitions Group finds investors for businesses and I listed one of my companies with him just over a year ago. Corporate Acquisitions Group has a simple service guarantee: If they don [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 18:00:07
As if things aren't bad enough... AT&T terms change targets Sling
Filed under: Odds and ends , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch AT&T has quietly changed their TOS ( ... corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer ... and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices is prohibited. They also added this language [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 20:00:00
Victoria Strauss -- Author Solutions Acquires Xlibris
The Author Solutions juggernaut continues to balloon ... --then one of the most cost-effective and reliable of the POD self-publishing services--was gobbled up by Author ... acquisition. Googling AuthorHouse brings up a multitude of unhappy stories (although it must [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 00:45:00
Xerox to buy Affiliated Computer Services – Health IT Business Intelligence and Outsourcing
Mergers and acquisitions continue in healthcare, especially in the Health IT area. Xerox is making a stake with the acquisition of ACS in Dallas. The company offers all types of healthcare solutions to payers, physicians, and covers e-prescribing, IPA consulting, and so on. Business Intelligence data solutions has never seen such interest as it has the last few months. They have a suite of modeling, profiling, benchmarking, reporting and health risk prediction tools available. Don’t miss [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 01:53:00
Verizon Business to Provide IT Solutions, Professional Services to Federal Agencies Under 10-Year Contract
Verizon Business will provide information technology (IT) ... , communication integration and management, networking, and secure-application optimization. Alliant ... Services Acquisition (LSA) contracts and GSA CONNECTIONS [more...]
Date: 2009-03-30 19:10:16
Hold on there Mobile iPhone Slingplayer People!
Humm… What’s going on here?? What has AT&T done to the license agreement? ... , and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services ... , telemetry devices and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices is prohibited.” [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 18:15:09
Carriers Reject Dell's First Attempts At Making A Cellphone For Being 'Dell-Like'
Dell has learned the hard way that wireless carriers still wield a ton of control in the wireless industry. It appears that unless you are Apple ( ... with more differentiation," that will "likely involve vertical integration of some sort including software and/or services." To do so, Dell may make an acquisition. Dell isn't the only computer-maker [more...]
Date: 2009-03-20 23:38:02
Google are in negotiations to buy Twitter
Twitter recently rejected an offer made by the social network Facebook, who made an offer of $ 500 million ... for the acquisition of the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. TechCrunch, an online ... at..... Barcelona Reporter | news and views from the Catalan capital [more...]
Date: 2009-04-04 12:24:39
Proposed Cyber Security Legislation
Amid calls for a comprehensive national strategy on cyber security, ... measures. The proposed legislation would establish a Secure Products and Services Acquisitions [more...]
Date: 2009-04-02 17:15:14
WaveTwo, LLC / Pelorus Technology Merger
23:14 WaveTwo, a privately-held professional services company, announced the successful acquisition of Pelorus Technology, a provider of Microsoft Dynamics Solutions. The companies will merge to crea [more...]
Date: 2009-03-20 23:39:32
BrandIQ? Jamtology? Not.
JamIQ, Brandtology: No Merger. Rumor has it that the founders of competing online social media monitoring services Brandtology and JamIQ recently met up for potential acquisition talks. The deal apparently fell through as both sides couldn’t reach an agreement. [more...]
Date: 2009-04-01 08:09:01
Dell: Dude, What Did You Do With Your Cell Phone?
So, uh, wasn’t Dell (DELL) supposed to be working on a cell phone? Well, that was the scuttlebutt ... including software and/or services.” And he adds that “Dell is contemplating making acquisitions to help [more...]
Date: 2009-03-20 15:22:45
35 Under 35: Orla Beggs, Principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City) An Oxford-educated Northern Irish woman goes to London then New York and becomes a principal at one of the ... that actuarial work wasn’t as interesting to her as mergers and acquisitions. “M & A work is varied ... world’s largest professional services firms in less than 11 years. On sabbatical, she goes [more...]
Date: 2009-03-19 10:00:07
Ladies and Gentleman, Let’s Give a Big FDL Welcome to Brett Joshpe and the Fumes of Compassion Doing that Old Chestnut “Employee Free Choice Sux”
There are a lot of creepy "legal consultants" writing anti-Employee Free Choice op-eds these days as a way to peddle their services to companies ... of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities and real [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 19:35:40
Indian steel's long-term fundamentals are intact : Ernst & Young
/India PRwire/ - Leading professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY) ... acquisition policies. Steel prices remain under pressure [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 11:54:24
Promotion and recruitment at Hansard Management Services Limited
Isle News , 6 April 2009 - Hansard Management Services Limited has announced two new appointments, with a focus on business development and client acquisition. Alan Northmore has been promoted to director, in client services, whilst Karen Blanchard-Foster joins the company as head of business [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 19:56:51
Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter?
If the sources at Techcrunch are to be believed then Google is definitely in race to buy out Twitter ... but not to them. The acquisition if it succeeds would even provide a boost to the service as it would be coming under Google’s umbrella and could attend mainstream use by integration with other [more...]
Date: 2009-04-04 04:20:50
Deals of the Day: Is BCE the Next Busted Buyout?
Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... to provide labor, parts, repairs, upgrades, improvements, service, software and equipment in a long-term contract. NY Post Mergers & Acquisitions Yesterday it was BHP-Rio, today could it be BCE [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 13:47:54
Many Deals Collapsed in ‘08, Not Always Quickly
Josh Beckerman and Jennifer Rossa of Private Equity Analyst, look at one of the more notable ripples of the global financial crisis ... At 12:18 AM on Jan. 1, 2008, PHH Corp. announced the termination of its $1.7 billion acquisition by General Electric and Blackstone Group. While no surprise–the mortgage services and fleet management [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 16:56:19
Many Deals Collapsed in ‘08, Not Always Quickly
Josh Beckerman and Jennifer Rossa of Private Equity Analyst, look at one of the more notable ripples of the global financial crisis ... At 12:18 AM on Jan. 1, 2008, PHH Corp. announced the termination of its $1.7 billion acquisition by General Electric and Blackstone Group. While no surprise–the mortgage services and fleet management [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 19:30:00
Software giant hunts acquisitions
Ufida Software will continue to acquire domestic software and IT service firms in 2009, despite the global financial crisis, China ’s biggest seller of business software said yesterday in Shanghai. Ufida has invested about 500 million yuan (US$73.5 million) annually on acquisitions for the past two years [more...]
Date: 2009-03-21 12:22:52
M&A Round-up • 3/25/2009
The latest round of merger and acquisition activities courtesy of our friends at Pharm Exec Europe : • Just days after its purchase of Genentech, Roche has made another acquisition, albeit a much smaller one, of the German firm Innovatis ... clinical trials services to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, has been acquired [more...]
Date: 2009-03-25 15:57:16
Report: Google in Talks to Buy Twitter? Update: Probably Not
Google is in talks to buy the hot microblogging service Twitter , according to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, ... are--if they are indeed acquisition talks--is in doubt, however. TechCrunch first reported talks were in the late stage ... that its fate would be even worse if Microsoft bought the company. There's good reason to think [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 05:34:23
Scaling the MS Dynamics ecosystem
Before it was acquired by Microsoft, Great Plains had one of the more unique annual events in the software industry – its Stampede ... . With the Microsoft acquisition, I thought it would encourage bigger SIs to take over the delivery of services ... a series of mergers and acquisitions.I had lunch today with Tony DiBenedetto, CEO of Tribridge [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 04:14:41
Satyam Reportedly In Merger Talks With Several Firms
Troubled Indian IT services firm Satyam Computer Systems (SAY) is reportedly in talks about the potential acquisition of the company with a number of rival companies, include HCL Technologies and MindTree, according to The Business Standard, which cited “ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 06:54:45
Canadian Telco Buys Consumer Electronics Store From Bankrupt Circuit City
Bell Canada is taking a huge leap into the consumer electronics business by agreeing to acquire The Source, ... . The integration of Bell services into the stores are expected to be completed by January 2010 ... independently following the acquisition, with a separate management team led by Ron Cuthbertson [more...]
Date: 2009-03-04 05:56:26
Jyothi Consultancy Services recruits freshers for PHP Developer openings on 6th April 2009
Company Details: Company Name: Jyothi COnsultancy Services Company Profile: Jyothi Consultancy Services , ... - comprised of a full range of end-to-end Business Intelligence Solutions from data acquisition ... development, integration, testing and support - delivered through our high quality and cost [more...]
Date: 2009-04-05 21:18:51
AT&T: No tethering, slinging or fun of any kind? Guess again.
In what may end up being the shortest lived Terms of Service modifications we've witnessed, AT& ... , downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted ... Acquisition devices is prohibited . Furthermore, plans(unless specifically designated for tethering usage [more...]
Date: 2009-04-04 23:57:07
AP Annual Meeting: Tests Begin On Paid Mobile News Service
Picking up from AP Chairman William Dean Singleton's speech, Tom Curley, AP's president and CEO, touted the service's Digital Cooperative ... of the digital music industry. Complete with analysis of global revenues and acquisition activities [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 19:10:58
IBM, Sun unable to reach a deal, report says
Sun reportedly rejected IBM’s offer of $9.40 per share By James Niccolai From ComputerWorld April 5, 2009 (IDG News Service) ... companies are reported to have been in merger talks since at least March 18. The acquisition, valued ... IBM and Sun Microsystems have been unable to reach agreement on the terms of an acquisition [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 00:25:52
Interesting Facts # 1042 - Finance
According to the Independent, the FSA (Financial Services Authority) ... dealing (aka insider trading) is the use of confidential information to profit from mergers and acquisitions. It has nothing to do with the illegal trade in spare parts for organ transplants.) [more...]
Date: 2009-04-05 22:01:00
Viral Video: Forget Twitter, Google–How About Acquiring Nanoblogger Flutter?
On Friday, amidst all the hoopla around acquisition rumors swirling around Twitter , Slate put out a very funny spoof on a fictional new service called Flutter. The online magazine’s mockumentary [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 07:00:57
Wingman Media Attributes Q1 Client Growth to Interactive Marketing
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Wingman Media, a full-service retail advertising agency, announces strong client growth during 2009’s first quarter ... lowered the company’s cost per patient acquisition from paid-search initiatives. Led by Internet ... with multiple agencies for their interactive needs,” Rich Kagan, partner, marketing and new business [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 15:50:59
BroadSoft to Acquire Packet Island
© josh.liba I recently published an article at VoIP Planet looking at BroadSoft’s planned acquisition of Packet Island, a provider of SaaS-based QoS monitoring tools for VoIP and video networks and services. “BroadSoft is committed to helping our global customer base rapidly deploy IP communications services,” says BroadSoft president and CEO Michael Tessler. “Packet Island offers a complementary technology that further enables the migration of voice and video to IP by ensuring the highest QoE. [more...]
Date: 2009-10-16 00:10:05
Welcome to Adobe's new FSI Blog
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Adobe’s Financial Services Industry Blog! ... a large national presence provides. In this vein the current flurry of brokered mergers and acquisitions may be seen as just the first round in a new, longer term wave of consolidation. Second [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 13:15:19
Iridium Merger; Satphones Maneuver
Iridium , the only Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) company offering coverage over the entire globe, has announced new funding through a merger with publicly traded GHL Acquisition Corp. , a venture formed by New York-based investment banking firm Greenhill & Co. Iridium, formed by Motorola and later spun off, has been looking for funding to launch the company’s upgraded network of 66 satellites. The newly merged company will go public on Sept. 29. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 16:24:38
PNC Financial 3Q Profit Doubles On National City Takeover
PNC Financial Services Group Inc.'s (PNC) third- quarter earnings more than doubled as the Pittsburgh regional bank's revenue soared thanks to its acquisition of a rival since the year earlier period. Although some big banks have been posting strong results for the most recent period, regional banks don't have the same level of capital-markets activity to offset weak traditional banking, which will remain under pressure until ... [more...]
Date: 2009-10-22 11:24:13
AT&T Cracks Down On Streaming Some Services
AT&T; Wireless has changed its Terms of Service to prohibit fixed devices from streaming over its wireless network, ... the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted ... Acquisition devices is prohibited." PK suggests this is in response to an incident where a man [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 22:36:48
Updated: AT&T Decides Net Neutrality Won’t Work for Wireless
Update : Five days after the terms of service were changed, and four days after the first outcry in the online community, AT& ... and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices.” NewTeeVee has some good analysis [more...]
Date: 2009-04-02 22:30:37
Raymond James VP: 500 To 600 Bank Failures In Next 12 Months
Yesterday, I happened to catch a Wall Street Transcript interview with Anthony Polini, Senior Vice President, Financial Services, of Raymond James & Associates Equity Research, and Christopher Nolan, Vice President of Equity Research at Maxim Group. What caught my attention was their discussion of bank failures. From Yahoo! Finance on October 5: TWST: Let’s shift our attention from the mechanics to the environment for acquisitions. Tony, are they all going to be FDIC-originated? Mr. [more...]
Date: 2009-10-07 14:42:18
Cramer: M&A Deals are a Positive Sign for Market Valuation
On Tuesday’s Mad Money , Jim Cramer reiterated his bullish stance on U.S. stocks and said that he believes that the S&P 500 is headed for 1200. Among his top reasons for his optimistic view is the recent trend in mergers and acquisitions. “In what is usually the sleepiest week of the year, the week before and of labor day — … All last week they’re like napping. Suddenly they say no, no, Baker Hughes is going to buy BJ Services wait a second, we’re going to do another one. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-09 14:03:46
Bayer taps outsider as CEO, deals ahead?
In about one year, Bayer AG's new CEO will be Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s (NYSE:TMO) Marijn Dekkers. He has deal experience on a large scale, having led Thermo Electron Corp.'s $10.6 billion acquisition of Fisher Scientific International in 2006. Dekkers (pictured) will replace Werner Wenning, who held the post since 2002 and has extended his service contract by eight months to Sept. 30, 2010. Dekkers, who holds both Dutch and U.S. citizenship, is currently president and chief executive of U.S. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-15 14:23:46
MySpace Mobile Ad Plans—Everything Under The Sun
MySpace—along with just about every other social network—is working hard on its mobile service, and plans to use advertising to generate revenue ... future, we look at performance-based advertising. Even before that you'll see integration ... revenues and acquisition activities, this report is a must-have for anyone seriously working [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 23:02:37
AT&T changes terms-of-service, causes uproar then apologizes
The uproar was bad enough last week when Sling offered their Slingbox upgrade program and the $50 credit, and, oh yea by the way, ... the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted ... Acquisition devices is prohibited.Then, (thankfully) a little less than 24 hours later, AT&T offered [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 14:08:41
