A swoon in June for tech M&A

Posted by on June 30, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly For the first two months of the second quarter, tech M&A spending flowed along at basically twice the monthly rate it had been reaching since last summer. The activity spanned virtually all sectors of technology, with chipmakers, storage vendors and telecom giants confidently and consistently throwing billions of dollars at deals in [...]

What happened to the storage sector’s Class of 2007?

Posted by on June 29, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Back in mid-2007, BlueArc was one of a quartet of storage vendors that put in their paperwork to go public during those go-go days on the stock market. However, if the NAS systems specialist, which recently re-filed its prospectus, does manage to see through its offering on this go-round, it will find [...]

Bolting onto the PE platform

Posted by on June 28, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly One of the knock-on effects of private equity (PE) spending hitting its highest level in three years in 2010 has been the emergence of bolt-on deals in 2011. Consider the recent M&A activity at Emailvision, an SMB-focused email marketing vendor. The company had been listed on the Euronext, although, candidly, European investors [...]

Maybe M&A for McAfee?

Posted by on June 27, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly, Andrew Hay With the ink barely dry on the M&A papers of SolarWinds’ purchase of TriGeo, we understand that another deal in the enterprise security information management (ESIM) market may be already in the works. Several industry sources have indicated that McAfee and NitroSecurity are thought to be close to an agreement [...]

Different exits at different prices

Posted by on June 24, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Imperva’s pending IPO offers a fairly intriguing counterpoint to the trade sale of rival Guardium nearly two years ago. In 2009, both companies would have been rather similarly sized (basically, $35-40m) and posting roughly comparable growth rates. Rather than continue as a stand-alone vendor, however, Guardium took a relatively rich bid from [...]

All quiet on the Eastern front

Posted by on June 22, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada In contrast to the surge in deal flow that we’ve seen so far this year, IT giant IBM has been extremely muted. So far this year the Armonk, New York-based company has announced only one deal – the pickup of real estate and facilities management vendor Tririga in March for an undisclosed [...]

Taleo targets Europe, acquires Jobpartners

Posted by on June 21, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada In its first acquisition outside North America, Dublin, California-based Taleo announced today that it is buying European HCM vendor Jobpartners for €26m ($38m). While the price is a fraction of the $145m in cash that Taleo held at the end of March, it’s a fairly rich value for what we understand was [...]

What would Palm be worth today?

Posted by on June 20, 2011

by Brenon Daly We have to hand it to Palm Inc – the smartphone maker got out while the getting was (relatively) good. At least that’s one way to think about Palm’s decision to sell to Hewlett-Packard in April 2010 for $1.2bn. Hitting that bid looks even smarter in light of the beating that Research [...]

Online coupon service providers a hot commodity

Posted by on June 17, 2011

Contact: Brian Satterfield With Groupon’s IPO looming on the horizon, the online coupon business model is attracting more attention than ever before. That’s also coming through in deal flow, with the number of transactions in the emerging sector having increased more than six-fold so far this year compared to last year. The main driver for [...]

RIM calls internationally

Posted by on June 16, 2011

by Brenon Daly As Research In Motion gets set to report fiscal first-quarter financial results later this afternoon, investors will be paying particularly close attention to the company’s international business, which has essentially provided most of the growth it has put up recently. Overseas sales have outstripped lackluster sales in RIM’s core markets of the [...]

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