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Why Microsoft Is Buying Skype For $8.5 Billion

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»

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iFive: ISP Data Retention, Facebook Credits Grows, Groceries from Amazon, Google Buying Fflick, White iPhone 4 Finally Inbound

Hey, check out our shiny new i5 logo! Now check out today's early tech and innovation news!READ»

Blue State Digital Acquisition: Co-Founder Joe Rospars Dishes

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»

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HP Pulls an Intel, Buys Security Software Firm ArcSight for $1.5 Billion

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»

Huffington Post's First Acquisition: Hardcore Comments Moderation, and Future-Proofing

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 Buys ShareGrove, Inviting Group Chat Upgrade [Updated]

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»

Big News in Pharma Outsourcing

inVentiv Acquired By Thomas H. Lee Partners, PDI Solid QuarterREAD»

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For Startups, a Bleak Year for IPOs and Acquisitions

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»

Growth by Acquisition

From beginning to end; five things to consider when expanding your companyREAD»

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Facebook Plans 50% Expansion

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»

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Facebook + FriendFeed = Real Time Search??

While the FriendFeed acquisition appears to be a Shot at Twitter, Google is in Facebook's crosshairsREAD»

SOLD!

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»

Software & IT M&A Update - July 2009

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»

Technology IPOs

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»

Will it Ever Be the Same? May 14th M&A Conference explores the future of finance and tech

Google, VMware, Salesforce, Microsoft, Verisign and others will all be there.READ»

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Western Digital Spends $65 Million to Get Into SSD Market...Finally

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»

Tech Takeovers

This article was recently published in M&A Magazine, a UK publication focusing on mergers and acquisitions.READ»

Will You Be Acquired, and Then What Happens?

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»