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Merisel Europe Sold In Distribution Mega-deal
News The European division of distribution giant Merisel was today bought by German distributor CHS Electronics in as deal worth about $160 million. The deal is expected to be completed by the end of September.
[August 30, 1996, 16:01]
AOL To Finally Get CIS's Online Service In Mega-deal
News In a complex deal, WorldCom Inc.will buy the whole of CompuServe in a deal worth close to $1.2 billion in stock. It will then buy America Online's communications network in a deal that gives America Online CompuServe's online service plus $200m...
[September 8, 1997, 10:31]
Public-sector IT Spend Predicted To Fall
News Georgina O'Toole, lead analyst for the research, said that, in the comparatively lower-growth environment, public-sector IT suppliers will need to shift their thinking to understanding the specific needs of potential customers rather than on...
[September 10, 2007, 16:08]
Stallman Touts GPLv3 Provisions
News Software patents are a vicious and absurd system that puts all software developers in danger of being sued by companies they have never heard of, as well as by all the mega-corporations in the field," Stallman explained.
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
Outsourcing Mega-deals Aid Market Recovery
News The global outsourcing market bounced back after a shaky start last year thanks to a spate of mega-deals and continued double-digit growth among Indian companies. Fuelling the end-of-year recovery was a sharp rise in mega-deals — contracts worth...
[January 18, 2008, 10:44]
No Merit In C&W's Mega Bonuses
Leader And will customers be encouraged by the idea of these mega-bucks deals? The proposed deal enjoys the support of C&W chairman Richard Lapthorne, who says it will inject a much-needed private equity drive into the company.
[May 16, 2006, 17:20]
Oracle Gains Control Of PeopleSoft
News Although the $10.3bn mega-deal may face a delay in its closing by roughly a month, the deal will ultimately pass given that Oracle holds a majority stake in PeopleSoft and has four representatives to PeopleSoft's board of directors who took effect...
[December 29, 2004, 14:40]
A Year Ago: MCI WorldCom, Sprint Talking Merger
News MCI WorldCom and Sprint have been discussing a mega-merger, but big obstacles still exist. Now it appears that Ebbers is ready for his next mega-acquisition. MCI WorldCom and Sprint have been holding talks about a merger that would combine the US...
[September 24, 2000, 7:05]
LookBack '98: Top Stories Of 1998 Part I
News Compaq may boast of combined revenues of about $37 billion as result of this mega-merger -- the largest IT deal of its kind in 1998 -- but IBM is still the king of PC makers. E-commerce and portal power were at the heart of the deal and AOL's CEO...
[December 25, 1998, 6:53]
US Report: Mixed Verdict On Netscape's Media Moves
News Investors were keeping their fingers crossed, hoping for a mega-announcement. In the deal announced Thursday, Netscape said it was teaming up with Warner Bros. It may not have been a blockbuster, but observers nonetheless said the $10m (£6.1m) deal...
[July 10, 1998, 10:28]
Intel To Vote For HP Merger
News The proposed mega-merger, which is valued at more than $21bn (£15bn), is being opposed by board member and Hewlett heir Walter Hewlett, as well as Hewlett and Packard family members and institutions representing 18 percent of HP shares.
[March 15, 2002, 9:07]
HP-Compaq Merger Hits Home Stretch
News Mon 11 Mar: If the mega-merger goes through, it's highly likely that Hewlett-Packard will adopt many of Compaq's product-line names and computer designs as its own Wed 6 Mar: The ISS, an influential advisory firm, gives the proposed marriage of...
[March 18, 2002, 17:35]
IT Megadeals Mean SMEs Lose Out
Talkback The core problem is that the government seems to think it will get a better deal by creating mega-contracts and limiting themselves to the small number of big IT supply companies that have the resources to answer the call.
[October 9, 2006, 15:29]
Mystery Over Psion/Amstrad Merger Collapse
News The £234 million UK mega-merger was called off Friday about 3pm after a month of discussion when Psion chiefs said they had decided not to go ahead. Both parties said they didn't expect the deal to be resuscitated.
[July 29, 1996, 13:13]
Five Years Ago: Mystery Over Psion/Amstrad Merger Collapse
News The £234 million UK mega-merger was called off Friday about 3pm after a month of discussion when Psion chiefs said they had decided not to go ahead. Both parties said they didn't expect the deal to be resuscitated.
[July 28, 2001, 7:30]
EU Approves HP-Compaq Merger
News European regulators on Thursday approved the pending mega-merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer, leaving industry watchers to ponder whether US regulators will follow suit. After only about a month of reviewing the matter, the European...
[February 1, 2002, 8:48]
IBM Cautious On Recovery
News Despite the lack of a services mega-deal, such as IBM's $2bn technology outsourcing contract with auto-parts maker Visteon, IBM saw its Global Services revenues rise by 23 percent compared with last year, to $10.6bn.
[July 17, 2003, 9:43]
Update: Acer Signs IBM And Promises More
News In March, IBM and Dell Computer Corp.announced the first of these mega-supply deals, valued at $16bn over seven years. The IBM deal is set for seven years -- as Acer chairman Stan Shih remarked, "In the world of technology, seven years means...
[June 7, 1999, 14:56]
Q&A: J.D. Edwards CEO On Resisting Oracle
News Why will antitrust regulators block the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger, after they allowed Hewlett-Packard to acquire arch-rival Compaq in a mega-merger deal? Edwards is not part of any deal, how big of a setback is it for the company?
[July 3, 2003, 10:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Instead, it and the other telcos will have to deal with a supplier that's now big enough to take back some control over the market - at least until the next mega-merger among the telcos themselves. Friday 07/04/2006
[April 10, 2006, 11:35]
