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Private equity snaps up O2 Airwave
News After months of speculation, private equity has finally snapped up O2 Airwave, the mobile operator's emergency services digital radio network. Guardian Digital Communications will take over Airwave. The company is owned jointly by two of Australian...
[April 23, 2007, 11:48]
Collaborative Online/Offline Sales & Marketing: Enhancing Brand Equity, Decreasing Customer Defection, Diminishing Channel Conflict
White Papers As a marketer, the brands you represent depend on you for strategies that protect and enhance them.eCommerce can present peril or prodigy to brand equity & positioning. Brand control is at great risk in this Internet age where the lines of...
[December 14, 2005, 23:00]
Tough Problems Solved: IBM Customer Equity & Lifetime Management (CELM)
White Papers IBM's Customer Equity and Lifetime Management (CELM) is a powerful analytical customer retention management solution developed by an IBM ODIS team. Small companies often have the luxury of recognizing their customers by sight, and knowing their...
[June 11, 2008, 1:01]
Private-equity firm buys into Palm
News Palm is selling a 25 percent stake to private-equity firm Elevation Partners for $325m (£163m) and is bringing in Jon Rubinstein, who formerly ran the iPod division at Apple, as executive chairman of the board.
[June 4, 2007, 17:20]
Private equity firms eye Carphone and NTL
News Private equity firms are rumoured to be circling both mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse and uber-ISP NTL. According to a report in The Times, NTL is in the cross-hairs of an unnamed private equity outfit willing to pay £10bn for the ISP...
[August 17, 2006, 10:40]
Avaya sells out to private-equity firms
News Avaya has been sold to two private-equity firms. The private-equity firms snatched Avaya away at the last minute from a likely purchase by its rival Nortel. The struggling VoIP equipment manufacturer announced the $8.2bn (£4.1bn) acquisition of its...
[June 5, 2007, 13:01]
Private Equity Firm Uses SQL Server 2005 to Reduce Costs and Boost Performance
White Papers Summit Partners, a leading private equity and venture capital firm, needed centralized reporting to replace a collection of disparate reporting applications that were difficult to use and that took too much time to manage.
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
Tough times force debt-for-equity swaps
News Cisco Systems has taken an 18 percent stake in the financially ailing Web provider Cogent Communications. The deal, made public on Thursday in Securities and Exchange Commission filings, settles a $263m (£157m) debt that Cogent amassed as it built...
[June 20, 2003, 10:03]
World's Fastest-Growing Equity Options Exchange Trades Up to HP Integrity-OpenVMS Architecture
White Papers Launched in May 2000, International Securities Exchange (ISE) was the nation's first entirely electronic options market. ISE wanted to maintain competitiveness, accommodate increasingly large trading volumes, and keep pace with the industry's move...
[June 22, 2009, 1:19]
Equity Miner
Downloads EquityMiner enables the Macintosh investor to search a database of over 5000 publicly traded companies using more than 75 different financial criteria commonly employed in the fundamental analysis of equities.
[June 27, 2000, 8:00]
IT Due Diligence: Partnering With Private Equity Before and After the Sale
White Papers In 2004, J.W. Childs (JWC) had the opportunity to acquire the Sunny Delight Beverage Co. SDBC) through a unique carve-out of brands by Procter & Gamble. The deal was further complicated by the fact that the global marketer of juice-based drinks...
[May 3, 2007, 1:00]
What Can 2007 Teach Us About 2008?
White Papers Private equity garnered nearly $400 billion in mega deals in merely six months, and news of multiple billion-dollar acquisitions (Chrysler, Alltel and CKX) illustrated a trend of public companies going private.
[February 7, 2008, 13:00]
LOANCALC
Downloads LOANCALC will compute loan payment, declining balance, and equity schedules (running and cumulative) for fixed rate loans with or without prepayment schedules. Periodic Equity: Equity contributed in each payment period
[December 18, 2000, 7:00]
Palm plans resurgence
News Palm, which lost its footing in the competitive smartphone market this past year, is turning to private equity and some former Apple execs to help it reinvigorate its product lineup. On Monday, Palm said it would sell 25 percent of the company to...
[June 5, 2007, 17:51]
HP puts faith in Software
News Hewlett-Packard's decision to drop the OpenView and Mercury brand names is part of efforts to build the brand equity of HP Software, says a company official. This is part of broader efforts to grow HP Software as a brand — one which we intend to...
[December 27, 2006, 9:44]
Muni Wi-Fi - can we build it?
Blog News comes from LastMile Communications that it has smashed the £3m target in its latest private equity funding round, pulling in £4.1m from investors. The content delivery firm, which was central to recent trials of municipal Wi-Fi in Exeter, now...
[September 17, 2007, 16:46]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com woes dash Amazon's revenue hopes
News Just about six months ago, Amazon.com rattled off six equity and marketing deals that had analysts gushing. To make matters worse, Amazon took equity stakes in its partners. Amazon has signed six new equity/ marketing deals representing an...
[July 27, 2000, 11:58]
Joint acquisition of 3Com imminent
News 3Com is poised to be acquired jointly by a private equity firm and Chinese network equipment maker Huawei. The private equity firm, Bain Capital, will take a majority share, with Huawei taking a minority, according to 3Com, which has approved a bid...
[October 2, 2007, 10:52]
Apple G5 chips 'in short supply'
News Financial firm Prudential Equity Group reported this week that the availability of G5 processors for Apple could be "worse than anticipated", according to a report on Forbes. We now believe that IBM may be having difficulty meeting its revised...
[August 18, 2004, 18:00]
BT shares rise amid takeover talk
News According to The Times, a number of global private equity firms have been examining BT as a potential bid target. BT is an attractive target to a private equity firm, as it has reliable and well-established revenue streams.
[March 3, 2006, 14:25]
