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Mergers and Acquisitions

Microsoft buys 3D company for Virtual Earth

In December, Microsoft bought Multimap, which also became a wholly owned subsidiary and works with the Virtual Earth and Search groups. Multimap develops online mapping services and now it has bought Caligari, more...
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Is M&A Really Dead?

Taking the example of Golden Telecom’s response document to the tender offer by Vimpel Communications to acquire all of Golden Telecom’s outstanding shares, Stephen M. Davidoff explores the topic of more...
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Sun Buys MySQL

Sun is acquiring open source database company MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. MySQL is used by many of the web's largest companies, including YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia, more...
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Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far)

Oooh. Michael Arrington says that the brouhaha over Facebook buying Plaxo is all false so far and that even though Plaxo is up for sale (since quite some time actually), this deal is not exactly history. more...
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Bankers See Modest Growth in Tech M&A for 2008

Stacy Higginbotham gives some positive news amid the gloom: M&A will be active in 2008 with two-thirds of bankers expecting an expansion in their deal flow in 2008, a mere 13 percent (or four times as more...
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Aruba Acquires AirWave

Aruba has acquired AirWave for about $37 Million in cash and stocks; AirWave's software allows enterprises to manage different wireless networks, including WiFi, mesh, and WiMax, and equipment from a dozen more...
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Digg Might Be Acquiring Menéame and CoRank

Duncan Riley talks about this possibility: Spanish tech site Techtear is reporting that Digg may have acquired Spanish social voting site Menéame and possibly coRank as well. That would make this scenario more...
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Startup Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep

Michael Arrington reveals that travel startup Kayak is buying its rival SideStep for $200 Million. SideStep and Kayak are the two leaders in the discount travel search space (along with Mobissimo and more...
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Digg hires a bank, lusting to sell for $300 million or more

Eric Eldon on Venturebeat talks about the swirling rumors about Digg and how it has hired a bank to help it finalize the deal it finally wants - to sell for $300 Million or more (first from Valleywag). more...
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M&A Scene shows a decline in 2008

Dealwatch says that executives at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Inc. and Bank of America Corp. estimate that M&A could fall as much as 20% in 2008 from a record $3.9 trillion this year, according more...
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