After dropping into pothole, Segway gets sold

Posted by on January 29, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly As a rule, we love novelty. And we love it even more when there’s a ridiculous amount of hype – and money – directed toward that novelty, which somehow gets portrayed as something other than a novelty. So imagine our delight when we saw recently that Segway had been sold in what [...]

No recession for mobile advertising M&A

Posted by on January 27, 2010

The vertical has not been hurt by the valuations decline. On the contrary, the past few months saw some of the richest deals for the sector yet. And with the segment poised to define mobile going forward, we believe there is much more to come.

Informatica: an MDM deal of its own?

Posted by on January 26, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly With one rumored pairing in the master data management (MDM) market still buzzing, word of another deal is beginning to circulate as well. Several sources have indicated that Informatica may have picked up Siperian and could announce the transaction as soon as Thursday, when it reports fourth-quarter results. (On that note, Wall [...]

Is IBM about to ‘initiate’ a major MDM purchase?

Posted by on January 25, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly Although we recently noted that SAP may be considering a major master data management (MDM) move, we understand that the next buyer in the market may actually be IBM. We’ve heard from several sources that Big Blue is close to announcing an acquisition of Initiate Systems. If the deal does indeed happen, [...]

Server maker Verari resurfaces under original founder

Posted by on January 22, 2010

Contact: John Abbott We noted last month that Verari Systems had run into trouble, and to avoid bankruptcy was planning to auction off its assets under an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors agreement. The auction, run by the Credit Management Association, duly took place earlier this month. The successful bidder was none other than [...]

Talk was cheap in 2009

Posted by on January 21, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly, Thomas Rasmussen We are currently tallying up deal credits for our annual league tables. Although we’re still a few weeks away from revealing our overall rankings of the investment banks, we have pulled out a couple of interesting trends. One observation that underscores just how brutal M&A was last year is that [...]

salesforce.com: All dressed up and nowhere to go

Posted by on January 20, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly, China Martens We noted late last week that it has emerged recently that salesforce.com did indeed make an (unannounced) acquisition to help bolster its upcoming enterprise collaboration product, Chatter. The purchase of GroupSwim, which had just 30 customers, was undoubtedly a tiny one. That’s been the case in the five previous buys [...]

Cadbury gets sweet deal; Yahoo sours

Posted by on January 19, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly When Kraft Foods first launched its bid for Cadbury four months ago, we termed the offer ‘an Old Economy rendition’ of Microsoft’s reach for Yahoo in early 2008. And while it wasn’t a direct parallel, there were a number of similarities: A diversified, dividend-paying company makes an unsolicited play for a target [...]

A short-lived bid for Chordiant

Posted by on January 15, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly In many ways, CDC Software’s unsolicited bid for Chordiant Software was over before it even began. As it was, the end became official late Thursday, as CDC Software pulled its $105m cash-and-stock offer for the money-losing CRM vendor just a week after floating it. It was clear that the hastily assembled ‘proactive [...]

salesforce.com goes for a GroupSwim

Posted by on January 14, 2010

Contact: Brenon Daly, China Martens Almost two months ago, we noted that several sources had indicated that salesforce.com may have reached outside its own walls for a little help in getting its Chatter product out the door. (Salesforce.com showed off Chatter, an enterprise collaboration product, at its Dreamforce conference in November, although it is not [...]

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