Versata bags Everest

Posted by on August 10, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly In half of the recent buys by Versata Enterprises, Updata Advisors has worked on behalf of the acquisitive enterprise software provider. In the latest purchase, however, the boutique advisory firm swung to the other side of the desk. On Friday, Versata, the Austin, Texas-based company that used to go by the name [...]

A transatlantic shopping trip for Concur

Posted by on August 7, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly After being out of the M&A market for two years, Concur Technologies 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 overall revenue at Concur. The company has indicated in the [...]

A first for Google: reaching for a public company

Posted by on August 6, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly In the five years since Google 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 ranging from the low seven figures all the way up to $3.1bn for [...]

Should Cisco dial up eBay’s Skype?

Posted by on August 5, 2009

As one of the few bright spots of the online auction giant’s second quarter, it is clear that Skype has a lot of value. Only it’s not within eBay, since the company plans to shed it by early next year. We speculate on an unlikely acquirer for the unit.

SaaS deals echo in security industry

Posted by on August 4, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly There are more than a few echoes of Symantec’s 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 the two largest security software companies, which have been slowly looking to increase that side [...]

id Software exit signals continued consolidation in gaming

Posted by on August 3, 2009

One of the few remaining independent gaming stalwarts unpredictably gave up its freedom last month. Could this be an indicator of a similar scenario playing out for the remaining studios, which had previously been resolutely independent?

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