The relentless, daily stream of Google news tends to hide one important fact about the company: They've been buying a lot of smaller companies, in their ever-evolving quest to dominate the online ad market and shore up their defenses ...READ»
Microsoft is bringing Skype--the firm that basically kicked off the home VoIP revolution--into its ever-expanding universe. Will it be worth the huge price tag? READ»
The guys behind the Obama campaign’s game-changing digital strategy are going to work for the largest ad agency in the world. Rospars tells us why that makes sense, and how it will make them even better at serving blue candidates.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»
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»
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»
For entrepreneurs hoping to take their startup public, the outlook is bleak. According to the New York Times, the number of acqusitions and IPOs in the third quarter of this year dropped below even last quarter. That number: three. ...READ»
Facebook is planning to expand its 1,000-person ranks by 50%, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an interview with Bloomberg. The company is using the dismal economic times as a bartering chip, picking up engineers and executives on ...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»
Considering Western Digital's household name status in hard drive-based storage, it's a little surprising that the company hasn't dipped its toe in the fast-developing solid-state drive market before now. Acquiring Silicon Systems, ...READ»
A common misconception from companies contemplating an exit is that M&A has dried up as the venture and IPO markets have. This is not to say that M&A hasn’t been affected by the current market conditions, but dried up? No. Case ...READ»
