Cyber Monday’s here

Posted by on November 30, 2009

Following a busy weekend for the brick-and-mortar retailers, today is the online vendors’ turn. To mark the occasion, we note that dealmaking among the online-retail giants has continued to match historical M&A even through the recession, and see lots of potential deals to come.

Corel: ‘What a turkey’

Posted by on November 25, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly As many of us get ready to sit down with friends and family for our annual Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, our thoughts inescapably turn to poultry. When we look around at some of the deals out there right now, our thoughts also turn to poultry. For instance, whenever Corel comes up, we [...]

M&A ‘chatter’ around salesforce.com

Posted by on November 24, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly, China Martens Official word from salesforce.com is that its recently announced Chatter product was developed in-house. And that would certainly be in keeping with the company’s history of staying away from M&A. Since it opened its doors a decade ago, salesforce.com has done just five tiny deals. The vendor certainly has one [...]

Bets on casual games are paying off

Posted by on November 23, 2009

Electronic Arts’ game-changing acquisition of Playfish brings validity to the young niche games vertical. Will the consolidation continue?

NetApp: Single and lovin’ it

Posted by on November 20, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly Jilted earlier this summer, NetApp is nonetheless doing just fine on its own, thank you very much. Shares of the storage giant are now changing hands at their highest level in more than two years, giving the company a market capitalization of a cool $10bn. (The stock tacked on 4% on Thursday [...]

A thaw in the market

Posted by on November 19, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about a thaw in the once-frozen M&A market. While that’s true for overall activity, it’s also turning out to be true for specific deals that for one reason or another found themselves on ice at some point. Whether the transaction originally froze because [...]

A management ‘buy-under’ at Silicon Storage Technology?

Posted by on November 18, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly In the third-quarter earnings report for Silicon Storage Technology at the end of October, chief executive Bing Yeh went out of his way to tout the vastly improving outlook for the flash memory vendor. Yeh noted that end-market demand had recovered and pricing had firmed up in what had been a pretty [...]

Google, the not-so-gentle giant, steps into mobile apps

Posted by on November 17, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly, Chris Hazelton In order to grow and foster broad support, technology platforms need to be open and inclusive. Of course, that’s a sentiment that runs counter to M&A, which by definition is selective and exclusionary. (See our earlier report on how selecting a company to buy often means giving a ring to [...]

Amid consolidation, Ixia opens its wallet

Posted by on November 16, 2009

The infrequent acquirer has inked two of the largest deals in its history this year. We explore the reason for the shift in M&A strategy and list potential targets.

Cavium’s quick moves on MontaVista

Posted by on November 13, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly, Jay Lyman It was hardly surprising when embedded OS vendor MontaVista Software got snapped up earlier this week. In fact, my colleague Jay Lyman put MontaVista at the top of his hit list for targets in the market in his report back in August. After all, the company was a pioneer of [...]

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