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Investor Group Offers $6.9 Billion to Take BMC Private
Software company BMC has agreed to be acquired by a group of four private equity firms. Together, Bain Capital, Golden Gate Capital, GIC Special Investments and Insight Venture Partners have offered to take BMC private at $46.25 a share, a deal that values the company at $6.9 billion, which amounts to a premium of less than 2 percent over BMC’s closing share price on Friday.
Exclusive: SurveyMonkey Raises $800 Million in Debt and Equity for Tender Offer — Including New Investment From Google’s New Late-Stage Unit
Ruling out an IPO in the near future, it is one of the largest private equity raises for an Internet company.
What’s Really Going on With Color: A Small Apple Talent Acquisition
Color’s engineering team — about 20 people, almost the entire company — is being “acqhired” by Apple at what’s being called a “nominal” price of something like $2 million to $5 million.
The Weather Channel’s Kenny and Weather Underground’s Steremberg Talk, Um, Weather (Video)
What’s the temperature for online weather?
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Extended-Warranty Business Gets $238 Million in Funding
SquareTrade Inc., which sells warranties for electronics products directly to consumers over the Web, said it is raising $238 million from affiliates of the private-equity firm Bain Capital LLC.Yahoo Stock Gets Gaslit by Bidders Dangling Phantom $20-a-Share Bid
There is no $20 bid for Yahoo today. So why was it suddenly news? Time to blame Wall Street again.
Ex-Yahoos Getting Downloaded by PE Firms and Others on Possible Deals
Former employees are good for something, apparently!
Exclusive: Silver Lake Finally Signs Yahoo NDA, as Talks Proceed With Bidders
Aggressive private equity firm signs on the secret dotted line it said it would not. Of course.
Deal Gone Bad? BuyWithMe Struggles as Investors Sour on Groupon Clones.
BuyWithMe, one of the early contenders in the daily deals space, has laid off a significant portion of its staff and is now in limbo as it finds raising more capital difficult.
Meet Domo, the Latest Chapter in the Josh James Saga
The former CEO of Omniture bought a company in his home state of Utah, and then renamed it, but not before having a lot of fun along the way. And? He just raised $33 million.