Shorting follows shopping at KIT digital
Posted by Brenon Daly on September 15, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Following an M&A spree earlier this year that had some on Wall Street skeptical, KIT digital says it’s now in ‘harvest’ mode from its earlier deals. In the first four months of 2011, the video asset management (VAM) vendor scooped up five companies. Although that’s the same number of deals it did [...]
Will a stabilized Cisco step back into the market?
Posted by Brenon Daly on August 11, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly After back-to-back quarters that roughed up the networking giant, Cisco reported on Wednesday a reasonably strong close to it fiscal year. Fourth-quarter revenue and earnings at the company topped Wall Street’s expectations, and included a rebound in Cisco’s core switch business. The company also projected that its overall growth would continue in [...]
A new era at Google?
Posted by Brenon Daly on April 14, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly It’s a new era at Google. After the market closes, Google’s once-and-future king Larry Page will give his first report to Wall Street since returning to the throne at the search company he helped found. Page took over at the beginning of the month, with Google shares trading essentially where they were [...]
Cisco adds Inlet to its video puzzle
Posted by Ben Kolada on February 10, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada, Jim Davis Cisco recently announced that it is acquiring video encoding provider Inlet Technologies for $95m in cash. The deal is the latest addition to Cisco’s ongoing strategy of helping service providers such as Telstra build content delivery networks that can serve video to TVs, PCs and mobile devices for pay TV [...]
KIT buys in bulk
Posted by Ben Kolada on February 4, 2011
Contact: Ben Kolada No stranger to inorganic growth, video asset management provider KIT digital just announced three acquisitions worth $77m. The company’s recent dealmaking brings its total M&A spending to $151m since 2006 – a hefty sum considering that KIT currently sports just a $350m market cap. While similarly sized firms might stop for a [...]
Google’s growing video ambitions
Posted by Brenon Daly on December 8, 2010
Contact: Brenon Daly, Jim Davis More than four years after Google acquired YouTube, the video content site is either putting up black numbers, or is very close to it. That’s according to hints offered recently by the company, although Google has often appeared unconcerned about the profitability of the wildly popular site that the search [...]
Will Google land On2?
Posted by Brenon Daly on February 17, 2010
Contact: Brenon Daly At this rate, Google may never again go shopping on the public market. Its contentious reach for On2 Technologies, which has been bogged down for a half-year, will come to some kind of resolution after the close of the market today, with shareholders of the video compression software vendor set to vote [...]
Will Adobe-Omniture marriage prompt online video M&A?
Posted by admin on October 2, 2009
The deal excited a lot of people in the analytics space. But we believe it could also have ramifications on the online video market; specifically, the move could spur consolidation in the online video content management sector.
A first for Google: reaching for a public company
Posted by Brenon Daly on August 6, 2009
Contact: Brenon Daly In the five years since Google went public, the serial shopper has picked up some 40 other companies. It has bought its way into security, collaboration software, mapping, video and voice, among other areas. And it has inked deals ranging from the low seven figures all the way up to $3.1bn for [...]
Cisco ‘papers’ purchase of Pure Digital
Posted by Brenon Daly on March 24, 2009
Contact: Brenon Daly When we wrote recently that Cisco Systems was an unpredictable acquirer, we only covered half of it. Who would have thought (prior to rumors and subsequent official word last Thursday) that Cisco really wanted to buy its way into the consumer electronics market? Much less that the company wanted to enter that [...]
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