mergers and acquisitions

Cisco Fits Back in Its Skinny Jeans, Drops $1 Billion in Annual Costs

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 8 at 2:21 pm PT

Cisco hits an important goal of its restructuring one quarter early.

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BMC Acquires IT Management Software Player Numara

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 30 at 11:27 am PT

BMC Software said today it would acquire Numara Software, a privately held company that specializes in IT management software. The move, BMC said, will expand its software-as-a-service offerings into the mid-market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Akamai Confirms the Rumors, Nabs Cotendo for $268 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 22, 2011 at 5:19 am PT

Akamai confirms the rumors, and nabs Israeli content-distribution start-up Cotendo, apparently outbidding Juniper in the process.

Apple Joins the Flash Madness Club With Anobit Deal

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 20, 2011 at 11:58 am PT

Flash memory has some troubles that an Israeli company call Anobit appears to know how to solve. Apple is the world’s biggest consumer of flash memory, so naturally it appears to have consumed Anobit.

Sprint Wins the Argument, but It’s Still Losing the War

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 19, 2011 at 4:30 pm PT

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has prevailed in his argument that AT&T shouldn’t be allowed to take over T-Mobile. Too bad for him that Sprint is still in a great big mess.

IBM Acquires Emptoris, Boosting Smarter Commerce Plans

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 15, 2011 at 8:25 am PT

Big Blue aims to make supply chains more efficient with this acquisition. Not sexy — unless you’re the chief procurement officer of a big company and you want to score points with the boss.

How SuccessFactors Signaled It Was on the Block

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 9, 2011 at 11:46 am PT

Signs that SuccessFactors was looking to be acquired first showed up in company SEC filings in April.

HP Is Done Shopping for Acquisitions — Or Is It?

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 22, 2011 at 7:01 am PT

CEO Meg Whitman says the days of big M&A deals at Hewlett-Packard are on hold for now. And yet she says there are some companies that look “ready to move.”

Oracle Grabs RightNow, a Cloud Company in the Big Sky State, for $1.4 Billion

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 24, 2011 at 7:14 am PT

RightNow is based in Bozeman, Mont., which is about as unlikely a place to find a cloud software company as you can imagine. It’s also a pretty nice place.

Google, Private-Equity Firms Mull Bid for Yahoo

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 22, 2011 at 7:36 am PT

Google has talked to at least two private-equity firms about potentially helping them finance a deal to buy Yahoo Inc.’s core business, according to a person familiar with the matter.