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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]
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, 0:00]
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]
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]
MBF Leverages Novell Nsure To Rapidly Integrate Acquired Companies And Provide Single Sign-on Facility For Nearly One Million Members, More Than 20,000 Providers And Almost Every Hospital In Australia
White Papers MBF is Australia's largest privately managed health insurer, providing health insurance products and services since 1947. MBF wanted to create a single identity management solution for its customers, healthcare providers and staff located in four...
[October 21, 2004, 0:00]
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]
Borland Expands Lifecycle Tools
News Borland Software has acquired Legadero, a small, privately held company, to fill out Borland's line of software development tools. Earlier this year, Borland also acquired TeraQuest Metrics, which provides consulting services for improving software...
[October 17, 2005, 13:00]
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]
McAfee Acquires Preventsys
News McAfee announced on Tuesday it has acquired Preventsys, a move designed to expand its security and compliance lineup. The acquisition is intended to bolster McAfee's other risk management products, such as Foundstone, which it acquired two years...
[June 7, 2006, 11:35]
BT Buys Bruce Schneier's Security Company
News Telecommunications giant BT has acquired Counterpane Internet Security, the threat monitoring company founded by security expert Bruce Schneier. It said it had acquired Counterpane in part to get Schneier's skills, and in part to expand its managed...
[October 25, 2006, 12:20]
Linux Entrepreneur Reclaims Software
News The founder of storage software start-up Mountain View Data has acquired software built by his previous company, Turbolinux. Mountain View Data said on Tuesday that it has acquired Turbolinux's PowerCockpit software, which lets administrators...
[February 28, 2003, 8:15]
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]
Wind River Acquires BSD's Unix
News In a major upheaval in the open-source software market, Wind River Systems has acquired Berkeley Software Design's version of Unix, merging the realms of proprietary and freely shared software. Wind River acquired BSDi's software, along with 50 of...
[April 5, 2001, 8:23]
Oracle Honeymooon Over For PeopleSoft And JD Edwards
News Oracle's honeymoon with users of the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards software applications it acquired at the start of 2005 is over, the UK Oracle User Group has found. Following Oracle's long-running acquisition of PeopleSoft, the JD Edwards community...
[November 23, 2006, 15:58]
Cobalt: There Will Be No Apple Cube Lawsuit
News Cobalt Networks, the server appliance manufacturer acquired last year by Sun for £1.2bn, has laid to rest any lingering suspicions that it plans to sue Apple over the use of the Cube trademark. The companies settled for a reported $4.1m in January...
[April 25, 2001, 18:00]
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]
Symantec Expands Security Arsenal
News Security-software maker Symantec's latest products use intrusion-detection technology that it acquired from other companies. It builds on technology that it acquired from Recourse Technologies, which Symantec bought last July.
[June 24, 2003, 14:07]
HP Dabbles With Voodoo
News Voodoo PC has agreed to be acquired by HP, Voodoo founder and chief technology officer Rahul Sood announced on his blog on Thursday. Voodoo becomes the latest company acquired by HP since chief executive Mark Hurd arrived at the company last year.
[September 29, 2006, 8:55]
SuSE Founder Walks Out Of Novell
News SuSE co-founder and kernel team member Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell, the server software company that acquired the German Linux company in 2004. Novell acquired SuSE Linux in 2003 for $210m and has been under pressure to build its open...
[November 10, 2005, 8:25]
Google Lays Foundations For Office Rival
News Google has acquired the online word processing company Writely in a move that could bring the search giant into even closer competition with Microsoft. We acquired Writely for the innovative technology and talented team.
[March 9, 2006, 18:50]
