Facebook dives into mobile

Posted by on January 31, 2011

Contact: Jarrett Streebin In its eighth acquisition in the last six months, Facebook picked up Seattle-based rel8tion. The startup is only nine months old and still in stealth mode, but it appears to be focused on targeted mobile advertising using location and demographics – data that Facebook has tons of. With 200 million active mobile users [...]

Verizon pays sky-high price for cloud provider Terremark

Posted by on January 28, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada In a move to accelerate its cloud services, Verizon has announced that it is acquiring cloud and colocation provider Terremark for $1.4bn. As the largest pairing between a telco and a colocation provider, the deal is not only a landmark transaction for the telecommunications industry, but also a significant shift from the [...]

Trustwave surfing toward an IPO?

Posted by on January 27, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly After two IT security companies put in their IPO paperwork last summer, we’re hearing that Trustwave is almost certain to be the first filer in 2011. The PCI-compliance vendor is currently baking off, with the selection of bankers expected to be complete next week. The actual prospectus would likely be filed around [...]

Telco and colo: a marriage of necessity

Posted by on January 26, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada Telcos and colocation providers are increasingly coming together in a marriage of necessity. Telcos’ own traditional wireline services are in a state of decline from which they will not recover. Meanwhile, colocation providers are growing rapidly, but need a footprint the size of their larger telco peers to continue such expansion. As [...]

Comings, goings and growings in the data-warehousing market

Posted by on January 25, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly, Matt Aslett Over the past two and a half years, tech giants such as Microsoft, IBM and EMC have all inked major data-warehousing (DW) acquisitions, running up a collective bill of some $2.5bn. All that time, Hewlett-Packard stayed out of the shopping spree, opting to develop its own DW offering in-house. On [...]

SolarWinds looks to shine in other markets

Posted by on January 24, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Having built a billion-dollar market cap through a cheap and easy offering for network management, SolarWinds is looking to take that approach to new markets through small acquisitions. Exactly a year ago, the company picked up Tek-Tools to add storage management to its portfolio, and now it steps fully into application performance [...]

Kaspersky catches some cash

Posted by on January 21, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Add General Atlantic (GA) to the list of buyout firms that has picked up a stake in an information security vendor. The firm on Thursday acquired a 20% chunk of Russian antivirus software provider Kaspersky Lab for $200m, implying an overall valuation of $1bn. The deal marks the third significant investment by [...]

Everything is bigger at Big Blue

Posted by on January 20, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Sometimes, we forget why IBM is called Big Blue. The giant just reported $100bn in sales for 2010, making it more than twice the size of Cisco Systems and almost four times the size of Oracle. (Just on its own, IBM’s software portfolio is larger than all of Oracle, not to mention [...]

Adobe backs up Omniture buy with more SaaS

Posted by on January 19, 2011

Contact: Kathleen Reidy Continuing to show its interest in the online marketing realm, Adobe has announced that it will buy SaaS startup Demdex for an undisclosed sum. Demdex was founded in 2008 with the goal of capturing behavioral data across websites to help advertisers better segment and target ads. It had raised $7.5m in seed [...]

Continued M&A activity in hosting sector expected in 2011

Posted by on January 18, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada, Aleetalynn Schenesky-Stronge The past year set several records for M&A in the hosting and managed services sectors. Industry players, including fellow companies, private equity (PE) firms and telecom carriers, announced a total of 102 deals, eclipsing the previous record set in 2006. The aggregate value of last year’s transactions hit $4.8bn. True, [...]

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