Taking care of unfinished business, Oracle snares InQuira

Posted by on July 29, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada Oracle scratched a lingering itch recently, as it announced that it is acquiring knowledge management and customer service automation vendor InQuira for an undisclosed amount. The announcement comes nearly three years to the day after Oracle was stinted by salesforce.com in its attempt to scoop up InQuira rival InStranet. And although terms [...]

InterNap’s time as a takeover target could be running out

Posted by on July 28, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada If its past is any prediction of its future, hosting services provider InterNap Network Services could soon lose its position as the industry’s next takeover target. The Atlanta-based firm, which is set to release its second-quarter results, has seen flat sales for the past three years. This is in stark contrast to [...]

ACI looks to crash S1′s wedding

Posted by on July 26, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Just a month after announcing its largest-ever acquisition, S1 Corp has found itself unexpectedly (and perhaps unwelcomely) on the other end of a potential transaction. The payments software maker agreed in late June to acquire Fundtech in a stock swap valued at $326m. On Tuesday, ACI Worldwide sought to play the spoiler [...]

Verint reaches for Vovici

Posted by on July 25, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Once pretty much a company that only offered call recording, Verint has expanded its business over the past two decades through a series of acquisitions. Most recently, it reached for Vovici, adding the startup’s online surveys offering to its voice-of-the-customer portfolio. Vovici will be slotted into Verint’s Workforce Optimization (WFO) unit, which [...]

Dual track, but singular outcomes

Posted by on July 21, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly For the third time in just two months, a tech company that had planned to go public has instead ended up inside a company that’s already public. The latest dual-track sale came Wednesday when Force10 Networks opted to accept a bid from Dell rather than see through its IPO plan. The networking [...]

Riverbed buys Zeus, but shares go to Hades

Posted by on July 20, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Announcing the largest deal in its history, Riverbed Technology said it will hand over $110m in cash for Zeus Technology in an effort to broaden its application performance portfolio. Zeus, which sells software for load balancing and traffic management, generated about $12m in revenue over the last year and is expected to [...]

Intel buys Fulcrum to further datacenter product push

Posted by on July 19, 2011

Contact: Thejeswi Venkatesh, Ben Kolada In a move that further boosts its 10-Gigabit Ethernet push, Intel has announced that it will acquire Fulcrum Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company that developed the fully integrated FocalPoint family of 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet switch chips. The acquisition advances Intel’s desire to transform itself into a comprehensive datacenter provider [...]

Mirror moves at CA and Compuware

Posted by on July 18, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly, Dennis Callaghan Both Compuware and CA Technologies recently announced deals for application development and the related field of performance monitoring in which the transactions themselves shared more than a few similarities. The two acquisitions saw the old-line companies, with their corporate roots in the mainframe era, paying nearly double-digit multiples for startups [...]

After CenturyLink-Savvis, telco consolidation will target the midmarket

Posted by on July 15, 2011

Contact: Ben Kolada CenturyLink’s Savvis acquisition, which closes today, is the largest telco-hosting deal on record, though we expect that it will be followed by a rise in smaller telco-hosting pairings. As the number of large hosting targets, which typically serve enterprises, continues to shrink, we anticipate that telcos that were unable to get their [...]

EA gets serious about casual gaming

Posted by on July 14, 2011

Contact: Brian Satterfield In an expensive nod to the ever-increasing importance of online social media and mobile gaming, Electronic Arts has reached deep into its pockets to purchase Seattle-based PopCap Games for $750m. The transaction, which could end up costing EA as much as $1.3bn if the full earnout is hit, stands out as not [...]

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