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MandrakeSoft builds war chest for acquisitions
News Moving to a regulated market will make it easier for investors to purchase MandrakeSoft stock and for the company to make acquisitions, Le Marois said. Shareholders of MandrakeSoft have approved a share sale to raise as much as $7.3m (£4m), a move...
[September 17, 2004, 9:00]
HP opens wallet for software acquisitions
News The picked-up pace of software acquisitions at HP mirrors a well-worn strategy at rival IBM, which has bought 54 companies since 2003, including 36 software outfits as it decreases its dependency on hardware sales.
[July 24, 2007, 8:01]
Mergers and Acquisitions: IT Testing Requirements
White Papers Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are amongst the most strategic decisions that are taken in the corporate world. Whether private or public, directors of companies that engage in the M&A arena must ensure that they take all practical steps to ensure...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Netstore Streamlines Customer Relationship Management for Its New Acquisitions
White Papers The company wanted to manage rapid corporate growth - achieved in part through a rolling program of acquisitions - with a new sales integration tool that supports standardized sales systems and processes.
[June 30, 2007, 1:00]
Consultants Corner: A BCP Survival Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions
White Papers For survivors of the 1990s, the words "mergers and acquisitions" still bring about a feeling of dread. They may not be as prevalent today, but they still cause a fair amount of uncertainty. The result is often less staff, which means more work will...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Indian IT firms told to seek big acquisitions
News Indian outsourcing companies need to make big acquisitions if they are to challenge the existing world order of global IT services companies. And the analyst group said that if market share leadership in the top three is a goal, these companies...
[September 27, 2007, 9:09]
Acquisitions boost IBM's Tivoli line
News On Friday, IBM is expected to outline changes to its Tivoli systems management product line, bringing in features garnered from a string of acquisitions. In addition, the company also intends to unveil within weeks its road map for adding products...
[October 6, 2006, 10:00]
What do Cisco’s recent acquisitions mean for the UC market?
Blog However, these acquisitions also better enable Cisco to work with customers existing infrastructure. Cisco’s acquisitions help it to address this dilemma by enabling it to offer its customers CPEbased integration with Microsoft Exchange and...
[November 3, 2008, 9:03]
Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment and Mergers and Acquisitions: Feedback and Macroeconomic Effects
White Papers This rise in FDI volume was accompanied by a marked change in its composition: investment taking the form of acquisition of existing assets (mergers and acquisitions) grew much more rapidly than investment in new assets ("Greenfield" FDI...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Overture acquisitions target Google
News But the acquisitions should add to the bottom line by mid-2004 and, "at a minimum," be neutral to earnings for the full year 2004, Overture said. AltaVista's and Fast's paid inclusion businesses and engineering teams will begin integrating...
[February 26, 2003, 11:24]
The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Mergers & Acquisitions
White Papers This webcast explains the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on mergers & acquisitions.
[March 29, 2005, 0:00]
Siebel acquisitions show ambition
News Siebel Systems is staking its claim in potentially lucrative business software markets with two acquisitions. Siebel's rationale for acquiring UpShot is similar to acquisitions it's made in the past, which is, "within a very short time to establish...
[October 16, 2003, 9:35]
Lucent to slow pace of acquisitions
News According to Frank Dzubeck, president of the Communications Network Architects research firm, Lucent has been able to absorb its frequent acquisitions by spreading purchases across different product divisions.
[August 23, 1999, 12:35]
Novell plans new acquisitions with $600m fund
News Novell will use about $475m of the funds for "general corporate purposes, including potential future acquisitions," the company said in a statement. Acquisitions have been essential to Novell's transformation into a company with Linux at its core.
[July 7, 2004, 9:05]
Tech acquisitions boom
News While the UK remains the largest and most active market for buyers, acquisitions in the UK -- which is ahead of the European economic cycle -- eased by 3 percent for Q2 compared to Q1 2004, a trend that the rest of Europe is expected to follow.
[August 2, 2004, 17:05]
CA rules out more acquisitions
News Sanjay Kumar, Computer Associates' chief executive, kicked off this year's CA World in bullish mood -- dismissing competition in the on-demand market, defending his company's acquisition strategy and drawing a line under the management coup which...
[July 14, 2003, 11:25]
Reduce Risk in Business Acquisitions and Consolidation by Better Managing IT and Infrastructure Dependencies
White Papers While some business change is unplanned (that is, dramatic changes in market condition or natural disasters), other change is planned. Some of the riskiest "Planned" changes include acquisition, expansion, consolidation or new product launches.
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
Amplifon Upgrades ERP Solution as Support for Growth and Acquisitions
White Papers Amplifon is a world leader in distributing and customizing hearing aids. The group has a distribution network composed of 2,800 of its own retail outlets plus 2,000 affiliated shops and almost 3,000 service centers operated by hearing aid specialists.
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
Siemens wants partners not acquisitions
News In a clear reference to recent Internet aquistions, senior board executive Volker Jung said "Purchasing a twenty billion dollar corporation with one billion dollar revenues and millions of dollars of debt makes no sense.If I did that at Siemens I...
[February 9, 1999, 12:58]
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Business Risks Associated With Merging IT
White Papers Top-level management of a merger or acquisition is very stressful, with consideration of due diligence, managing corporate culture and defining the future direction the new company is to move in. Outsourcing of the IT integration and testing...
[August 22, 2009, 1:24]
