M&A 
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Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M
Yahoo’s new HR rule: If you can’t hire them, buy their company.
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Liberty, Time Warner Cable CEOs Met
Liberty Media Corp. Chief Executive Greg Maffei recently met with Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Glenn Britt to discuss the benefits of mergers in the cable sector, said a person familiar with the situation, the latest sign that Liberty is interested in sparking consolidation in the industry.HP’s Fix-and-Rebuild Process Is Progressing but Not Complete, CEO Whitman Says
In an inteview, Meg Whitman says there’s still a lot to fix and rebuild.
Checking Into Foursquare? Yahoo’s CFO Talks About Next Mobile M&A — Including Importance of “Localization.”
Hey, Dennis Crowley, that sounds like you!
IBM to Acquire Cloud Services Company SoftLayer
Still not buying Rackspace.
Salesforce.com Makes Its Biggest Acquisition Yet, Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion
The cloud acquisitions continue.
Yahoo’s Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range — Even as It Preps Other Big Deals in Mobile and Communications
Get ready for a very noisy game of musical chairs over the premium video site. Meanwhile, Mayer is still shopping for deals.
News Byte
NetSuite Acquires Order Management Company OrderMotion
NetSuite, the cloud-based enterprise resource management software company, said today that it has agreed to acquire OrderMotion, a cloud software firm based in Burlington, Mass., that specializes in order management. Financial terms were not disclosed. NetSuite said it will put OrderMotion’s expertise to work to augment its own order-management capabilities. NetSuite shares rose slightly to $89.90 a share by mid-morning Eastern time.News Byte
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.Actian to Acquire Big-Data Startup ParAccel
Actian rolls up its third acquisition in five months.
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