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[Posted on September 7, 2007 - 4:00 PM]
Apple Inc.'s decision to slash the cost of the iPhone to a mere $400, triggering outrage from customers who had paid a full $600 for the company's latest object of technolust, illustrates how fluid the rules of mobile media are. Even Steve Jobs is making it up as he goes. It's not as though iPhones weren't moving. In July,...

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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 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 4, 2007 - 3:12 PM]
SCi Entertainment Group plc, the video game publisher best known for the Lara Croft Tomb Raider series, reports Tuesday that it has received an approach concerning a potential offer for the company. SCi said the discussions were “extremely preliminary” and no proposal has been received nor is there any certainty of an offer. The Times of London suggests bidders...

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[Posted on August 24, 2007 - 3:38 PM]
With VMware Inc. shares up more than 21% from its stunning initial public offering earlier this month, it's clear that the company has sustained investor interest in its virtualization technology, which lets companies run all their operations on fewer servers and dramatically reduces IT complexity. But amid so much enthusiasm, it's always good to have a voice of reason....

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[Posted on August 21, 2007 - 2:16 PM]
Initial public offerings continue to be a viable exit strategy for software companies. The latest to announce plans is mobile communications software provider CDC Corp., which said Monday it will take its enterprise software unit public. The Chinese gaming and software technology company will register for an initial public offering worth as much as $225 million in Class A common shares. The...

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[Posted on August 21, 2007 - 12:31 PM]
A new CEO at SoonR Inc. may be the first step in the mobile startup seeking a buyer or going public. SoonR, whose technology allows users to access data and applications on PC or Mac systems from standard mobile phones, on Tuesday named Patrick McVeigh as its CEO, replacing founder Martin Frid-Nielsen, who was appointed chairman and chief product...

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[Posted on August 20, 2007 - 3:55 PM]
Motley Fool seems to think that the long talked-about takeover of middleware software maker BEA Systems Inc. is more likely to become a reality, given some persistent softness in the company's revenues and some apparent investor fatigue, reflected in the company's stock price, which is now approaching a 52-week low. While BEA's overall revenues are growing, its license revenues —...

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[Posted on August 17, 2007 - 5:20 PM]
In a classic example of rivals coming together to advance a market sector, IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are collaborating on server technologies. The agreement calls for Sun's Solaris operating system to run on IBM servers. The idea apparently grew out of a meeting Sun president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz had a year ago. "We're thrilled to be working...

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[Posted on August 15, 2007 - 4:31 PM]
Citrix Systems Inc.'s $500 million cash-and-stock purchase Wednesday of XenSource Inc. could spur software giant Microsoft Corp. to put Citrix, a provider of application delivery infrastructure software, on its own acquisition target list. At least that's the take of the 451 Group, which speculates that Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Citrix is now an acquisition target after bolstering its technology with the addition...

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