AT&T’s loss is Verizon’s gain
Posted by Ben Kolada on December 21, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada In the land of multibillion-dollar telco mergers, sometimes the piecemeal approach is more effective than a one-and-done deal. AT&T attempted to leap over the competition with its proposed $39bn acquisition of T-Mobile USA; however, the world’s largest telecom company fell flat on its face. In failing to secure the T-Mobile takeover, AT&T [...]
A potentially expensive missed call
Posted by Brenon Daly 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 [...]
What to do with webOS?
Posted by Brenon Daly 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 [...]
Cut the CDN already, InterNap
Posted by Ben Kolada on October 27, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada We’ve long covered InterNap Network Services as both a potential target and a datacenter services vendor with disappointing earnings. With what’s likely to be another underwhelming quarter (the company reports Q3 results after the bell today), we take yet another look at what can be done to save this barely floating ship. [...]
The ever-rising costs of HP’s makeover
Posted by Brenon Daly on September 8, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly The bill for Hewlett-Packard’s makeover just keeps climbing. Even beyond the $10bn that has been erased from the market valuation of the company since announcing its unprecedented reorganization, the ailing giant is facing some real cost in the coming days. For starters, it’s on the hook for $11.7bn to cover its pending [...]
Limelight lightens its load
Posted by Ben Kolada on August 31, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada In a move to streamline its operations, Limelight Networks is divesting its EyeWonder assets to DG FastChannel. Although the deal comes at a considerable discount – DG’s $66m all-cash offer is only slightly more than half the amount that Limelight paid in cash and stock for EyeWonder less than two years ago [...]
Corel erases iGrafx from its portfolio
Posted by Brenon Daly on August 29, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly A decade after picking up iGrafx, the private equity-backed Corel firm has divested the business process management (BPM) software company to newly formed buyout shop The Limerock Group. The move should allow new focus and resources for iGrafx, which was always an odd fit inside Corel. For its part, iGrafx sold almost [...]
A longshot for Leo?
Posted by Brenon Daly on August 19, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Hewlett-Packard is now, officially, Leo Apotheker’s company. Since his somewhat surprising appointment as HP’s chief executive last fall, Apotheker has been taking small steps while also dropping big hints that he would be recasting the tech giant. But few observers could have imagined the almost unprecedented scope of the transition that Apotheker [...]
Telefónica nabs cloud hosting firm acens Technologies
Posted by Ben Kolada on June 9, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada Consolidation between the telecommunications and hosting industries continued today with Madrid-based telco Telefónica purchasing cloud hosting and colocation provider acens Technologies from buyout shop Nazca Capital. Although this deal seems to be just another in the long line of telco-hosting pairings, it actually represents one of the biggest foreign consolidations that we’ve [...]
A tale of two e-discovery deals
Posted by Brenon Daly on May 26, 2011
Contact: Nick Patience Last week was more or less bookended with two acquisitions in the e-discovery market, with Autonomy Corp picking up Iron Mountain’s digital assets on Monday and Symantec buying Clearwell Systems on Thursday. Autonomy and Symantec share a market but little else between them. Both are experienced acquirers – having made, collectively, 50 [...]
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