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 [...]

Yahoo: hunted, but still in the hunt

Posted by on November 2, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Amid all the speculation that Yahoo would sell itself (or not), the search engine operator swung to the other side of the table on Tuesday, announcing the $270m all-cash purchase of interclick. The planned acquisition, which is expected to close early next year, is the first time Yahoo has reached for a [...]

‘Googorola’ close to closing

Posted by on October 28, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly In what could be its last financial report before it is formally acquired by Google, Motorola Mobility said after the closing bell Thursday that mobile device revenue in the third quarter rose 20% over the same period last year to $2.4bn. That was nearly twice the overall rate of growth at the [...]

Limelight lightens its load

Posted by 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 [...]

IncrediMail reaches deep for deal

Posted by on August 5, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly Almost exactly a year after taking the top spot at IncrediMail, CEO Josef Mandelbaum has announced his first acquisition at the digital media company. And it’s a big one: IncrediMail, which had just $33m in cash in March, will spend $25m upfront and another possible $15m earnout to add startup Smilebox. IncrediMail [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Heading toward an ‘Eloqua-ent’ IPO

Posted by on June 6, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly A little more than a month after the strong IPO by a rival on-demand marketing vendor, Eloqua has taken its first significant step toward an offering of its own, according to market sources. We understand that the company has tapped J.P. Morgan Securities and Deutsche Bank Securities to lead the IPO, with [...]

A valuable deal for Groupon

Posted by on June 3, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly As it preps for its public debut, we note that Groupon, the coupon giant known for offering consumers deals up to 90% off, did a bit of smart bargain shopping of its own last summer as it made an important purchase to expand business in Europe. In May 2010, Groupon picked up Berlin-based [...]

Demandware to test demand in public market?

Posted by on May 18, 2011

Contact: Brenon Daly After a pair of billion-dollar deals over the past half-year removed two old-line e-commerce vendors from the Nasdaq, an on-demand startup is rumored to be looking to replenish the ranks on the public market. Several sources have indicated that Demandware has picked underwriters and is set to file its IPO paperwork shortly, [...]

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