Amid the fuss over a Google buyout, Groupon's expanded its global presence with acquisitions of its own and boosted the service it offers clients. How will these moves improve Groupon, and are they designed to aid the purchase by Google?READ»
Is this WikiLeaks fallout a kind of protective diplomatic move by China? The nation says it's arrested "hundreds" of naughty hackers, and uncharacteristically has admitted it's a big problem. Since WikiLeaks' cablegate leak suggested ...READ»
IBM is about to fork over around $1.7 billion to buy Netezza Corporation. It's a big analytics firm, but you've probably never heard of it. What exactly is Big Blue up to, and why is it interested in this company at all?READ»
Intel tried to sew up the "other" end of the computing business recently by buying McAfee. Now PC maker Hewlett Packard is doing something similar: It's buying ArcSight, a corporate-level PC security software firm.READ»
Intel has just announced it's going to buy one of the most well-known PC security firms, McAfee. It's going to be handing over $7.68 billion to seal the deal, too.READ»
The U.S. is facing a dichotomy about business with China: It's more than happy to invest billions of dollars there to build smartphones and netbooks ... but it's super-wary of letting China invest in the U.S. READ»
Car maker Volvo, once the pride of its original home Sweden, is now officially Chinese property. Its previous owner Ford just sold it for $1.5 billion. READ»
News aggregator site Huffington Post has just made its first acquisition: Adaptive Semantics. It's a tech firm whose systems will help HuffPo with is main business of bringing together content, and comments from readers. Most ...READ»
Sonic Solutions just announced it's buying out DivX for a whopping $323 million. If you don't know who these companies are, it doesn't matter--you've almost certainly used their products, and the deal is all about the future of TV on ...READ»
Facebook, fresh from its partial privacy revamp, is straight back to business as usual--which means expansion. It's just bought a small startup called ShareGrove, a group chatting client. Is Facebook planning to break into the IM ...READ»
Google's just plopped some $68 million dollars on the table to buy up Global IP Solutions, a company that sells voice and video IP conferencing gear. Is this a sign Google's revving up Voice or even its TV products to rival Skype and ...READ»
Rumors are swirling that Facebook's looking to purchase location-aware social net Loopt. It makes perfect sense, given the sudden arrival recently of Google's Buzz mobile, which is location-aware from the get-go. Facebook's playing ...READ»
Spend-happy Cisco systems has opened up its purse yet again, and shelled out some $2.9 billion for a company you've probably never heard of: Starent. What will interest you is that this should improve future smartphone ...READ»
Will the cast of 30 Rock soon be making fun of a new corporate overlord? M&A bankers for General Electric may have reached a deal Tuesday to sell NBC-Universal to Comcast, reports TheWrap. Both companies have denied any ...READ»
Software and IT M&A levels continue to improve and deals are getting done. Evidence to this are 4 transactions which Corum closed in the past 30 days. During Corum's August M&A Update webinar, we were joined by selling CEO's ...READ»
Here is a link to Corum's latest M&A Flash update. This month we were joined by Microsoft's Marc Brown, Managing Director of Corporate Development.
July Flash Webinar
http://www.corumgroup.com/Software-MA-Webinar-Archive.aspxREAD»
The recent IPO’s from SolarWinds and OpenTable are welcome sights as we in the tech sector continue to look for good news. Will the offering push open the flood gates and ignite the IPO market? Will they do the same for ...READ»
