Midmarket and boutique banks bounce back
Posted by Ben Kolada on February 28, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada, Adam Phipps The US tech M&A advisory market regained a bit of its footing in 2010, and midmarket and boutique banks were the primary beneficiaries of the rise in activity. According to our 2010 Tech M&A Banking Review, midmarket banks took 15% of the total tech advisory market in 2010, up six [...]
PE firms back at the table
Posted by Brenon Daly on February 25, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly The buyout barons might not be as powerful as they were before the Credit Crisis, but that doesn’t mean the financial buyers can’t elbow aside their rivals from the corporate world. Earlier this week, Golden Gate Capital topped an existing agreement that Conexant Systems had with fellow chipmaker Standard Microsystems. While it [...]
The year of the privately held storage supplier?
Posted by admin on February 24, 2011
Contact: Simon Robinson The storage M&A market is expected to favor smaller private providers this year, as recent activity has reduced the number of available midsize public targets. Indeed, in the past 24 months, Data Domain, 3PAR, Isilon Systems and Compellent have all been taken off the market. And buyout speculation caused by this recent [...]
RSA = Rumors Swirling Around
Posted by Brenon Daly on February 22, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Candidly, one of the main reasons we’ve always enjoyed the RSA conference is all the gossip at the event. From the show floor to get-togethers that take place along the periphery of the conference, people talk. That’s especially true at the boozy after-hours parties sponsored by vendors and their backers, where the [...]
Out with the old, in with the new
Posted by Brenon Daly on February 17, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Just over the past week, we’ve been struck by the fact that after in-house development efforts came up short, companies simply reached out of house for other companies that were doing the same thing – only better. In one case, it was to buy; in another case, it was just to partner. [...]
Match made in heaven?
Posted by Ben Kolada on February 16, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada As telcos look to stem losses in their business divisions and hosters look for partners to help them continue revenue growth, the two industries are increasingly merging together. The recent Terremark and NaviSite sales have already set a new record for dealmaking between these two sectors, eclipsing the nearly $1bn worth of [...]
Searching for identity, Quest picks up e-DMZ
Posted by admin on February 15, 2011
Contact: Steve Coplan Quest Software has announced the acquisition of e-DMZ Security, an independent and self-funded player in the growing privileged identity management (PIM) market, for an undisclosed sum. The PIM market originally coalesced around compliance requirements for enforcing the separation of duties for administrators and logging their access to sensitive systems, but security and [...]
Nokia + Microsoft = Love?
Posted by Brenon Daly on February 14, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Maybe it’s the fact that today is Valentine’s Day and love is in the air, but we’ve been thinking about the recent closeness of Nokia and Microsoft in a whole new way. Recall that the Finnish handset maker said on Friday that it’ll be basically breaking up with its own OS to [...]
Visa plays with virtual goods
Posted by admin on February 11, 2011
Contact: Jarrett Streebin This week marked another major entrance into the virtual goods market with Visa snapping up PlaySpan for $190m in cash. The deal comes a half-year after Google struck the first significant transaction in the market, paying a reported $55m for Jambool. With the market for social games and virtual goods amounting to [...]
Cisco adds Inlet to its video puzzle
Posted by Ben Kolada on February 10, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada, Jim Davis Cisco recently announced that it is acquiring video encoding provider Inlet Technologies for $95m in cash. The deal is the latest addition to Cisco’s ongoing strategy of helping service providers such as Telstra build content delivery networks that can serve video to TVs, PCs and mobile devices for pay TV [...]
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