The new (unexpected) IPO hotspot

Posted by on November 30, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Forget Silicon Valley or New York or even Boston. The new tech IPO hotspot is a place that typically only gets flown over by investment bankers looking in the more traditional locations for the next companies trying to make it public. What’s the exotic and (potentially) lucrative new launch pad? Indianapolis. That’s [...]

Securing a tweet

Posted by on November 29, 2011

Contact: Wendy Nather Whisper Systems has announced that it has been acquired by Twitter (appropriately enough, the news was tweeted). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but given Whisper’s emphasis on Google Android security, we expect that the deal was as much about the brains behind the technology as it was about the tools [...]

A potentially expensive missed call

Posted by on November 28, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly With AT&T’s planned purchase of T-Mobile USA now looking increasingly unlikely to close, we may have to take an eraser to our deal totals for 2011 – a very big eraser. Like most other M&A databases, The 451 M&A KnowledgeBase tallies transactions by their date of announcement rather than close. (However, we [...]

Numara keeps flowing along

Posted by on November 23, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Throughout its long and winding 20-year history, the name may have changed for Numara Software, but the business is still the same. The IT service desk management vendor was originally known as Blue Ocean Software, a name that got erased during the three years the company was owned by Intuit. After TA [...]

HP takes itself out of the market

Posted by on November 22, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Over its two previous fiscal years, Hewlett-Packard has spent more than $20bn on a dozen acquisitions, with five of them costing the tech giant more than $1bn each. Those days are over, according to recently named CEO Meg Whitman. In her first conference call discussing quarterly financial results on Monday, Whitman told [...]

What to do with webOS?

Posted by on November 21, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly, Chris Hazelton Investors can only hope that Hewlett-Packard doesn’t announce any ‘bold, transformative steps’ this afternoon like it did the last time it discussed its quarterly financial results. Recall that it was just mid-August when the tech giant unveiled a dramatic overhaul of its business: looking to jettison its $40bn PC division [...]

Big money, behind closed doors

Posted by on November 18, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Who needs to go public when there’s so much late-stage money sloshing around out there? That question hit us in the head this week after two startups announced, separately, that they were each raising $50m in new funding. First, it was marketing automation vendor Marketo saying it pulled in $50m in a [...]

And the next IT security IPO is…

Posted by on November 17, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly From what we hear, investors won’t have to wait anywhere close to another two years for an IPO by an information security vendor. In fact, a pair of companies is set to put in their paperwork, with at least one prospectus possibly filed yet this year. Those offerings would follow last week’s [...]

Symantec gets the better end of a ‘win-win’ deal

Posted by on November 16, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly When a marriage dissolves, it’s typically a messy process with bitter recriminations and resentments over how to divide the results of lives pooled together. Not so with Symantec’s step out of its three-and-a-half-year-old joint venture (JV) with Huawei. Selling its 49% stake in the storage and security appliance JV to its Chinese [...]

In a flash, Fusion-IO plans secondary

Posted by on November 14, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Just eight months after first filing its IPO paperwork and a scant five months after debuting on the NYSE, Fusion-io has already indicated that there will be a lot more of its shares hitting the market in the coming days. The flash memory specialist plans to sell $100m worth of stock in [...]

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