Items tagged with 'Acquisition'
Google and Waze Reach $1.3 Billion Dollar Deal For Crowd-Sourced Traffic and Navigation Technology
If you were the market's leader in maps, what would you do? If you'd seek out one of the hottest GPS mobile apps, then your train of thought would align to Google's. A deal has been rumored for the past week, but it seems certain today: Google has acquired Waze for a cool $1.1 billion, beating out Facebook to the acquisition.... Read More
Google: Saving For a Rainy Day with Piles of Cash
It was revealed earlier this week that Google has a current cash stockpile of $45 billion, and it's led some to wonder what the company might want to do with it. The same questions have surrounded Apple for quite a while as well, and with its hoarding of an enormous $137 billion, it's no wonder. As far as Google... Read More
Michael Dell's $24.4 Billion Deal Hits a Potential Snag
Michael Dell, along with partners Silver Lake Management and Microsoft, are anxious to complete a takeover bid of the world's third largest PC maker, but not everyone involved is gung-ho to get it done. Southeastern Asset Management, Dell's biggest outside shareholder, plans to fight the acquisition on the basis that Mr.... Read More
Dell Going Private in $24 Billion Dollar Leveraged Buyout with Microsoft and Silver Lake Management
It happened. Dell today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement in which company founder, Chairman, and CEO Michael Dell will acquire the company for approximately $24.4 billion. Microsoft and Silver Lake Management are also involved the transaction, which had been rumored for weeks. "The Dell Board of Directors... Read More
Lenovo Looks at RIM For Acquisition
Chinese computer maker Lenovo is reportedly taking a long, hard look at acquiring Research In Motion (RIM), a Canadian handset and mobile software company. Lenovo, which is jockeying for position with Hewlett-Packard (HP) as the world's largest PC supplier, has already spoken with RIM about its interest in acquiring the... Read More
Imagination Tech Buys MIPS For $100M, Outbids Ceva
You don’t hear a lot about MIPS Technologies, Inc., but the company’s technology is important to the embedded processor industry and is found in millions of devices. It’s also apparently important to chip designers Imagination Technologies and Ceva, Inc. The former has now outbid the latter and is buying... Read More
Cisco Goes on a Spending Spree, Acquires Cloud Networking Firm for $1.2 Billion
Cisco, which recently cracked a list of 25 top companies to work for, is committed to spending big money beefing up its cloud infrastructure. The latest indication of that is today's announcement that the company will fork over approximately $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives to acquire Meraki, a privately... Read More
Sony to Acquire a Big Chunk of Olympus
Sony and Olympus are kicking off the weekend by entering into a "business alliance agreement" and a "capital alliance agreement," which are essentially fancy ways of announcing a big time investment of one into the other. In this case, Sony is tossing about $645 million at Olympus in order to become the company's largest... Read More
Motorola Solutions Buys Psion For $200 Million
Nothing like a little acquisition to get the juices flowing. Motorola Solutions has just snapped up Psion Plc., a company that has a hugely storied history in consumer electronics. The deal will involve around $200 million, and will see Psion make the move under Motorola Solutions' umbrella. Psion is perhaps best known... Read More
Microsoft to Spend $1.2 Billion on Yammer, a Social Network for Enterprise
It's said that a fool and his money are soon parted (just ask Nokia), but is Microsoft being foolish spending over a billion dollars to acquire Yammer, essentially a private social network for the enterprise? Time will tell, and while nothing has been officially announced yet by either Microsoft or Yammer, The Wall Street... Read More
It's Official: Google Closes Deal to Acquire Motorola Mobility
Google can go ahead cross off "Acquire Motorola Mobility" from its to-do list, because as of today, the acquisition is officially a done deal, the sultan of search announced in a blog post. The deal, which jumped over several regulatory hurdles, including getting approval from the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of... Read More
Dell Plans To Acquire Wyse Technology
Dell announced plans to acquire Wyse Technology, a leader in cloud client computing. Wyse’s portfolio includes thin client solutions, desktop virtualization, and cloud software. The acquisition will expand Dell’s desktop virtualization capabilities and boost its enterprise products such as servers, networking,... Read More
AMD Seals the Deal on $334 Million SeaMicro Acquisition
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) kicked off the weekend by wrapping up its acquisition of server startup SeaMicro for a cool $334 million. It didn't take long to draw up the paperwork and work through the legalities of the more than quarter-of-a-billion dollar buyout, which was first announced less than four weeks ago. "Our... Read More
It's Official: WD Acquires Hitachi Global Storage
Nearly one year ago, we told you about Western Digital's plan to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Now, that acquisition is officially complete. The deal is effective March 8, 2012 and involved $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WDC common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion. These shares give... Read More
Google, Motorola Deal Gets Green Light of Approval, Let the Patent Wars Begin
Both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission gave Google their respective blessings to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, the two agencies said in separate announcements. Taking it one step further, the DoJ also said it would allow Apple, Microsoft, and Research In Motion (RIM) to purchase certain... Read More
Google-Motorola Acquisition Reportedly Close to EU, U.S. Approval
Google has been trying to acquire Motorola Mobility and its thousands of patents for months. Soon, according to a Reuters report, the acquisition should receive approved from the European Commission and U.S. Justice Department. A decision about whether to approve the deal or ask for more review is expected as early as Monday.... Read More
Motorola Stockholders Approve Merger With Google
The proposed merger between Google and Motorola is one step closer to completion. Recently, Motorola's stockholders voted with an overwhelming majority to approve the proposed merger with Google. At a recently held Special Meeting of Stockholders, approximately 99% of the voting shares voted in favor of the merger agreement.... Read More
Analyzing the SandForce Acquisition, An Interview with LSI
Yesterday’s announcement that LSI had entered into an agreement to acquire SandForce was interesting to say the least. The two companies have obvious synergy and should be able to leverage each other's resources to produce some powerful and innovative storage products. However, due to LSI’s strong position in... Read More
Cisco Scooping Up BNI Video For $99 Million
Cisco's at it again. With "at it" meaning "buying companies." While the company's killing of Flip Video will be the one that everyone remembers from 2011, they're also picking up BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two major video products that offer video back-office... Read More
Rhapsody Buys Napster
Rhapsody announced plans to purchase Napster from Best Buy. Although the full details of the deal have not been released, we do know that Best Buy will retain a minority stake in Rhapsody. The deal is expected to close on or around November 30 of this year. As a result of the deal, the subscriber bases of the two largest... Read More
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