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[Posted on September 11, 2007 - 4:58 PM]
Nortel Networks Corp.'s longstanding position on the M&A sidelines — combined with its impassioned insistence that it is indeed interested in M&A — is starting to look more than a little strange. The company has not made any acquisitions since its December 2005 purchase of Tasman Networks Inc. for $99.5 million, but it has repeatedly stated since then that...

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[Posted on September 11, 2007 - 4:28 PM]
For allt the fanfare around this summer's IPO of VMware Inc., which made the term virtualization the tech buzzword du jour, it's now becoming clear that there's a lot more work to be done, and technologies to be developed to further streamline the data center. Case in point: VMware, which pioneered virtualization, is looking outside its walls for technologies...

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[Posted on September 11, 2007 - 3:24 PM]
Chipmaker Intersil Corp. late Thursday proved that analog chip engineers still command a hefty price. The company announced it would buy Planet ATE Inc., a tiny maker of semiconductors used in equipment that tests newly minted integrated circuits, for $46 million up-front and a potential $12 earnout. Tech Confidential spoke Tuesday morning with David Zinsner, Intersil's chief financial officer and...

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[Posted on September 7, 2007 - 5:19 PM]
Video-conferencing company Tandberg ASA on Thursday said it would spend $270 million to buy high-definition video-conferencing company Codian Ltd. The deal is a win for Codian, but it also narrows the number of possible acquirers for LifeSize Communications Inc., which has raised $81 million to build its own high-def video-conferencing system, and Teliris Ltd., which has raised $40 million...

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[Posted on September 7, 2007 - 3:37 PM]
Ever since two spectacular deals this summer — VMware Inc.'s initial public offering and Citrix System Inc.'s $500 million acquisition of XenSource Inc. — set off speculation over future dealmaking among makers of virtualization software, there's been a short list of buyers, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. said to be hunting for good buys in the...

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[Posted on September 7, 2007 - 11:54 AM]
Though our gut tells us it might be wise for online photo service Shutterfly Inc. to find a buyer, we'll defer to company CEO Jeffrey Housenbold, who tells Reuters that the company expects to remain independent despite increasingly tough competition. Not only that, Housenbold expects the company to make acquisitions outside its core photo-sharing venue, targeting greeting-card companies and stationery makers. "We...

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[Posted on September 6, 2007 - 5:48 PM]
This Reuters interview with Lenovo Group Ltd. makes no mention of future acquisitions, but it's hard to see how the Chinese computer maker could attain its lofty goals — Chairman Yang Yuanqing projects an eventual 40% overseas market share — without doing some serious shopping. And, if it is prepared to buy, what would it buy? When the company's...

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[Posted on September 6, 2007 - 4:26 PM]
Competition is spurring Business Objects SA to scour the landscape for potential purchases, and it's found plenty to bring home. The Paris-based provider of business intelligence software announced on Thursday its third acquisition of the the year. The latest purchase is FUZZY! Informatik, a Ludwigsburg, Germany-based provider of data quality technology in Europe, for an undisclosed sum. FUZZY! was founded in 1994...

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[Posted on September 5, 2007 - 5:27 PM]
A bit of teenage angst is cropping up in speculation about acquisitions of open source software companies. With the $500 million buy of XenSource by Citrix Systems Inc. and previous buys by RedHat Inc. and Oracle Corp. last year, open source software providers have become viable targets despite worries about lack of sales and compromised code that could lead...

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[Posted on September 5, 2007 - 1:21 PM]
When Tech Confidential spoke with BlueLithium Inc. CEO Gurbaksh Chahal in May, he acknowledged receiving feelers from potential buyers, but said the behavioral advertising firm was focused on an IPO in early 2008. Whether that was a subtle negotiating ploy or the company’s actual strategy is uncertain, but BlueLithium is now a part of Yahoo! Inc. after it was...

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