A vote of confidence?
Posted by Ben Kolada on January 26, 2012
Contact: Ben Kolada There’s no denying that behavior in the equity markets is one of the main influencers on big-ticket M&A. Stock market stability provides a vote of confidence for corporate acquirers to pursue large, game-changing deals. Without stable markets, the valuation gap between buyers and sellers becomes too wide for potential sellers to accept. [...]
NTT continues global expansion, bags Netmagic
Posted by Ben Kolada on January 25, 2012
Contact: Ben Kolada NTT Communications has made another move in the Indian datacenter services market, this time taking a 74% stake in Netmagic Solutions. Netmagic provides managed hosting, colocation and infrastructure management services, among others, from seven datacenters throughout India. This is the latest in a growing line of transactions NTT has inked that have [...]
Europe: Not the lost continent
Posted by Brenon Daly on December 15, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Even as Europe appears increasingly likely to splinter under the weight of its unsustainable debt loads, there’s still a fair amount of shopping on the Continent. In fact, the $68bn worth of transatlantic transactions so far this year is the highest level in four years and equal to the combined value of [...]
Where to go after the sale?
Posted by Brenon Daly on December 7, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly, Thejeswi Venkatesh In an effort to bolster its Smart Grid offering, Siemens AG reached earlier this week for eMeter, a company that the German giant had invested in three years ago. The sale comes after San Mateo, California-based eMeter had looked to raise a round of funding last summer, on top of [...]
J2: from a fax machine to an M&A machine
Posted by Brenon Daly on November 3, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly In reporting third-quarter financial results after Wednesday’s closing bell, j2 Global Communications not only posted record revenue and cash-flow levels but also highlighted the returns it has generated in its recent M&A spree. And the communication services provider, which has some $162m in cash and short-term investments in its treasury, hinted that [...]
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 [...]
InterNap’s time as a takeover target could be running out
Posted by Ben Kolada 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 [...]
Riverbed buys Zeus, but shares go to Hades
Posted by Brenon Daly 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 [...]
International activity helps push cloud infrastructure M&A to new heights
Posted by Ben Kolada on July 7, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada Cloud infrastructure M&A activity set several records in the just-closed second quarter, due in large part to a rise in international dealmaking. We’ve been noticing a steady uptick in international M&A activity lately, as both foreign strategic acquirers and private equity (PE) firms look to consolidate fragmented sectors in their own backyard [...]
Bolting onto the PE platform
Posted by Brenon Daly 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 [...]
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