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EGreetings: IPO today, acquired tomorrow?
News An acquisition is a wild card right now because eGreetings' largest shareholder Gibson is currently being acquired. We are taking a leap in figuring eGreetings will be acquired but we're not jumping the Grand Canyon here.
[December 17, 1999, 11:51]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog SightSpeed is to be acquired by Logitech! What an interesting piece of news to wake up to this morning! Not a lot of information available yet, but Peter Csathy, SightSpeed CEO, who has posted comments to my blog here on ZDNet U.K.several times...
[October 29, 2008, 8:59]
The Day Ahead: Let Lycos be acquired in peace
News Why can't Lycos be acquired in peace? Of course, the portal gets no thanks for being acquired by Terra Networks for $12.5bn (£8.44bn). Lycos shareholders: Congratulations, your investment has finally been acquired.
[May 18, 2000, 12:21]
PECAS Vision ERP Helps Multi-Color Corporation Consolidate Acquired Plants Into Existing Operations
White Papers As part of its growth strategy, Multi-Color Corporation acquired NorthStar Print Group, Inc.the label manufacturing subsidiary of Journal Communications. Multi-Color Corporation is a premier provider of packaging services and decorating solutions...
[May 16, 2008, 1:01]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog Comment It's presumptuous of me to ask a follow up after your long and very well thought out reply to my first question, but I will anyway. I'd like to hear your opinion on the question of standards. While having all of these players, ooVoo, SightSpeed...
[October 30, 2008, 13:54]
UK field computer maker Husky acquired
News Coventry-based Husky has become a familiar name in the niche market for rugged field hardware and has grown to include operations in France, Germany, Sweden and the US. Manchester, New Hampshire-based WPI will use the Husky acquisition to build...
[July 3, 1997, 9:23]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog Comment I've been reading your blog for a while and am very conversant with your feelings about Skype. I don't disagree, but the one thing Skype has going for it is an enormous (relatively) user base. And the biggest problem for desktop video...
[October 30, 2008, 11:53]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog Comment Hi, thanks for reading, and commenting.with an excellent question. You are absolutely correct, and I have said since my first post in this blog about video IM that Skype is the 800-pound gorilla in the room with all of the other video IM programs.
[October 30, 2008, 7:44]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog Comment Thanks for your response. What you suggest makes a lot of sense, and I'm going keep it for reference in case anyone ever asks me a similar question, so that I can appear to be the source of an intelligent answer.
[October 30, 2008, 14:02]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog Comment @PeterH - it's certainly not presumptuous, it's a very good question, it goes right to the heart of what is happening in the video IM market today, and I'm always happy to engage in an interesting discussion.
[October 30, 2008, 16:32]
How Cisco Applies Companywide Expertise for Integrating Acquired Companies
White Papers Acquiring companies that offer attractive technologies, products, or market opportunities has been a major growth strategy for Cisco. To help integrate these companies rapidly, consistently, and with minimal disruption, Cisco has formed cross...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Straight Talking - My ERP Supplier Has Been Acquired - Now What?
White Papers Given the recent abundance of mergers and acquisitions amongst the mid-market ERP vendors, IT directors managing an ERP system may feel uncertain about the future of their incumbent system. Yet it is critical to be able to assure the board the...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
LinkedIn about to be acquired?
Blog Rumours are circulating that business-focused social networking site LinkedIn could, once again, be an acquisition target. Several months after the last set of rumours died out, Eric Eldon and Matt Marshall at VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com...
[May 13, 2008, 17:43]
Corel posts another big loss
News The Ottawa, Canada company said the difference can be traced to a decision to write-off costs associated with acquired Java technologies over the entire year, instead of lumping it all into the fourth quarter.
[January 20, 1998, 16:45]
Juniper guns for Cisco in branch offices
News Juniper Networks has launched a strategy to integrate the products it acquired through a recent buying spree, in a bid to grab market share from Cisco. As a result, it has acquired a rash of different products based on vastly differing operating...
[October 30, 2006, 13:30]
HP wins false-discount case
News Hewlett-Packard has recovered more than $1.8m (£1.12m) from a company that improperly acquired HP products using an educational discount. According to HP, S-Systems acquired more than $5.7m in equipment from Compaq, paying only $3.1m through the...
[August 15, 2003, 10:54]
Network Associates expands anti-spam portfolio
News Network Associates on Monday acquired anti-spam software provider Deersoft, the first in a series of acquisitions the company plans to make to help people thwart unsolicited email. With Deersoft, we have acquired extensions to the leading open...
[January 6, 2003, 15:27]
EMC buys some parts of SourceLabs
News EMC on Monday confirmed it has acquired some parts of the business of SourceLabs, which provides support services for Linux and open-source Java development. However, it did say the acquired assets would operate as a "standalone business".
[January 5, 2009, 15:49]
Pro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents
News A pro-open-source group said on Tuesday that it has acquired 22 patents recently sold by Microsoft — patents that the group said could have been used against Linux. OIN said it has now acquired the patents from AST, although it would not say how...
[September 9, 2009, 8:29]
FriendsReunited acquires Schoolfriends.com
News Popular Internet-based school-friends linkup company Schoolfriends.com elected to be acquired by the United Kingdom-based FriendsReunited largely to gain access to its family-tree and dating search services, one of its founders said.
[June 21, 2004, 10:35]
