Thomson Reuters to acquire Breakingviews.com
Thomson Reuters has confirmed that they have offered an acquisition deal to Breakingviews.com.
The company said that Breakingviews directors have already accepted the offer and they now need the permissions from the shareholders.
The deal is said to be worth around £13 million.
Thomson Reuters said that after the acquisition, Breakingviews [...]
BusinessWeek to be acquired by Bloomberg
Bloomberg has won the bid to acquire BusinessWeek.
Bloomberg and BusinessWeek have not revealed the financial aspects of this acquisition deal.
They are expecting the deal to close by December this year.
Daniel L. Doctoroff, president of Bloomberg spoke about this acquisition deal: “The BusinessWeek acquisition will yield huge benefits for [...]
Cisco acquiring Starent Networks for USD 2.9 billion
Cisco is on an acquisition spree! They are now acquiring Starent Networks for around USD 2.9 billion.
Starent Networks specializes in developing products that enable mobile companies to delivery large amount of data to mobile devices.
Cisco representative Ned Hooper spoke about this deal: “We have had [...]
Compuware to acquire Gomez
Compuware has announced that they are now acquiring Gomez.
The deal is worth around USD 295 million.
Compuware said that they are aiming to close this acquisition deal by November this year.
Compuware Chief Operating Officer Bob Paul had this to say about this deal: “Businesses are experiencing a revolution that [...]
Cisco Systems to acquire Tandberg
Tandberg is the latest acquisition being planned by Cisco Systems.
Tandberg specializes in manufacturing video conferencing equipments.
The deal is worth around USD 3 billion.
The company spoke about this deal: “Tandberg’s board of directors has unanimously decided to recommend to its shareholders to accept the Offer.”
market analysts believe that this [...]
AT&T acquires Plusmo
US based mobile service provider AT&T has announced that they are now acquiring mobile development company Plusmo.
The company now aims to use their technology to develop applications for mobile devices and television.
Plusmo provides a development platform for widgets and other applications which can be used on mobile devices.
It would now [...]
Comcast in talks to acquire NBC Universal!
Market sources say that Comcast is in talks with GE to acquire their NBC Universal unit.
NBC Universal is made up of several properties including: NBC broadcast network, Universal movie studio, and a couple of television channels.
Comcast has denied these market reports. Sources however claim that the [...]
Affiliated Computer Services to be acquired by Xerox
Xerox has announced that they are going to acquire Affiliated Computer Services.
This deal is worth around $6.4 billion and would be conducted in both cash and stock transactions.
This acquisition would enable Xerox to boost the size of their services business.
Xerox said that this deal is a game changer [...]
Larry Ellison not happy with delay over Sun Microsystems acquisition
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has revealed that Sun Microsystems is losing around USD 100 million every month.
Oracle is in the process of acquiring Sun but the deal has been delayed by the European regulatory bodies.
He said: “The longer this takes, the more money Sun [...]
Yahoo might sell Zimbra in the near future
All Things Digital has reported that Yahoo is looking for a possible deal for their Zimbra unit.
They had acquired Zimbra in 2007 for around USD 350 million.
Looks like Zimbra could become the latest casualty of their trimming down process.
Reports are further claiming that Yahoo [...]
