Acquisition

Havent been to tours for long so decided to refresh myself.I hope to travel to visakhapatnam for a break.Would miss all of you readers terribly.Since i wont be here maybe something newly related to mine would excite you. Recently i turned 20 years of age and celebrated that by satiating my long desire to be a "venture capitalist" by acquiring a "majority stake" in a brokerage

Carl Icahn has pulled a new card from the deck in his attempt to win seats on Yahoo's ( NSDQ: YHOO) board. In an open letter to Yahoo shareholders, he says he has been in talks with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and other top execs, and that he is sure Ballmer still wants a major deal with the company. But, he claims, Ballmer will not negotiate with the existing board. His reason: there is too

GlobalFun, a publisher and developer of premium mobile games today announced that GlobalFun will be one of the two main official content acquisition partners for the Play Now Arena and Fun & Downloads services run by Sony Ericsson.The deal follows 5 years of close cooperation between the companies."We have since the beginning of our business aimed to provide our customers, of which Sony Ericss

Interest in merger and acquisition (M&A) deals high but investors unsure how to negotiate the maze of rules and regulations Merger and acquisition... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Hicks Acquisition Company I, Inc. (AMEX: TOH) has reached an agreement in principle to go from SPAC to operational. The deal and terms are subject to execution... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: NNA.U) has priced its IPO of 22,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit for aggregate gross proceeds of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

European Commission announced that it had unconditionally approved Nokia’s voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech ASA. Nokia today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Trolltech. In addition to the key software assets, the Trolltech team will play an important role in accelerating the implementation of Nokia’s software strategy. This will enable Nokia to

Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation is a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC/Blank Check company, that has filed to come public via an IPO. It has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Congress will launch a statewide agitation in Uttar Pradesh to protest against what it calls the “random” acquisition of farmers’ land by the Mayawati government. “We will be launching a major agitation against land being acquired by the state government from farmers. In some cases the acquisition has been done randomly. In return for their [...]

It's been a while since we have seen many blank check or special purpose acquisition company (SPAC's) file to come public. We just saw a filing for an IPO from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Bank of America's CEO Kenneth Lewis stated Wednesday that he remains committed to buying the almost bankrupt mortgage lender Countrywide. Bank of America also stated that they currently see no need to cut its dividend. The bank has consistently raised its dividend for 30 years straight.

The European Commission recently approved Nokia's voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech, which we covered back in January. Settlement took place on June 6, 2008, giving Nokia 52,411,283 shares and votes in Trolltech, or 99.4% of all the shares outstanding in Trolltech. Nokia will apply for the delisting of Trolltech's shares from [...]

Brisbane-based growth hormone company Tercica, Inc. (TRCA:NASDAQ) will be acquired by French drugmaker Ipsen SA in a stock deal valued at more than $400 million. Ipsen had an option to buy up to 40% of Tercica through to a 2006 deal. It will buy the remaining 44.9 million outstanding shares for $9 each.

GCA Acquisition (AMEX:GGA) has received anti-trust clearance related to its proposed $1.3 billion purchase of merchant power generator Complete Energy.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Tata Motors today acquired the Jaguar Land Rover businesses from Ford Motor Company for a net consideration of US $2.3 billion, as announced on March 26, in an all-cash transaction. Ford has contributed about US $600 million to the Jaguar Land Rover pension plans.

Cadila Healthcare Ltd (Zydus Cadila) has forayed into Spain with the acquisition of 100 stake stake in Laboratorios Combix for an undisclosed financial consideration. The company is still in the process of finalising the valuation. Combix is a pure generic company with sales and marketing focus, having a portfolio of 17 molecules and a range of products that are pending launch. Combix provides rig

Just over a month ago, we completed an exciting and important acquisition of the remaining equity in our drug discovery holding, ReceptoPharm.  Even though it has taken more than a year and a half since we first signed a letter of intent to acquire them, we are just as excited today as we were in [...]

ICSA Ltd, a Hyderabad-based solutions provider for power distribution, is likely to acquire strategic companies in the US and Europe to make inroads in the energy audit market there.G Bala Reddy, chairman and managing director, ICSA, told DNA Money: “The export market, which mainly comprises services like data acquisition and automation, has a huge potential.”He said, as far as the export mark

According to linguists (i.e. scientits who engage in the scientific study of human language)there is an important distinction between language acquisition and language learning.As you may well have noticed, children acquire their mother tongue through interaction with their parents and the environment that sorrounds them. Their need to communicate paves the way for language acquisition to take pla

It seems that TomTom have been given the go ahead to take over the company, Tele Atlas by the European Commission. In light of this take over, TomTom will now have the support of Tele Atlas to help keep such features already seen on it’s TomTom updated, these being it’s Map Share (enabling TomTom’s installed base [...]

AOL announced that it has completed its acquisition of Bebo, which is one of the leading social networks in the UK. It is ranked No. 1 in Ireland and New Zealand, No. 3 in the United States of America. Bebo’s worldwide users spend an average of 30 minutes a day on the site. “With the addition [...]

AOL have just announced that it has now completed its well publicised acquisition of the Bebo social networking site which will now become the centrepiece of AOL’s People Networks business unit which already includes AIM, ICQ.

Quick Post:CBS (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring CNET (NSDQ: CNET) for $1.8 billion in cash. The purchase price comes to $11.50 per share, representing a 44.6 percent premium over last night’s closing price of $7.95. This article can be also be found at: paidcontent iBeginShare.attachButton('share-tool-838193776', {title: 'Acquisition:CBS Is Buying CNET for 1.8 Billions', link: '-is-buying-cnet-for-18-b

NewsFactor - Two king-pins in the tech industry announced Tuesday a merger agreement valued at $13.9 billion, with Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) set to acquire computer consulting firm Electronic Data Systems Corp. (NYSE: EDS) in an effort to compete more aggressively with rival IBM in the technology services business.

Korea - Shares in Shinsegae ,the country's top discount store operator, dropped 5.25 percent to 578,000 won, on fears of increased competition after unlisted E-Land said it was in talks to sell its... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Huge display, multi-touch interaction, powerful processor, advanced graphics core - these are all things that make the current iPhone a potential mobile gaming powerhouse. Thanks to Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR MBX 3D graphics video core that lies within the iPhone’s Samsung-manufactured ARM SoC (System on Chip) chip architecture, OpenGL ES 1.1 is supported by the Apple [...]

AMERICAN FORK, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hybrid Dynamics Corporation (“Hybrid”) (OTCBB:HBDY) today announced that it has acquired Delaware American Motors, Inc. ("Delaware American” or “DAM”) in an all-stock transaction upon the issuance of 4,500,000 shares of Hybrid common stock. Delaware American is a high-end, high performance motorcycle brand whose foundation is based on innovative desi

With all the Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC's) that have filed to come public, many SPAC's haven't proposed an actual business move they are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

This application note describes techniques for interfacing National Semiconductor's ADC0833 serial I/O, and ADC0804 parallel I/O A/D converters to the INS8048 family of microprocessors. A hardware and software interface example is provided for each A/D, along with a brief theory of operation.Since the INS8048 series microprocessors are single-chip, multiple I/O line, high speed devices designed as

I was talking to someone the other day (I forget who), and this individual brought up the fact that Condoleeza Rice’s Russian is “so bad.” This person thought it was reprehensible that someone who studied Russian in university spoke the language so poorly. But the thing is, I completely understand.In order to maintain one’s foreign language abilities, one must constantly practice and study. I received my BA in Russian in 2001. At that time, my spoken Russian, while not fluent, was pretty damn good. However, from Summer 2001 to Summer 2005, I neither practiced nor studied Russian. Additionally, during that time I made two extensive trips to South Korea, traveled all over Costa Rica, and lived in Southern California within walking distance of the Mexican border. By the time I returne

Huge display, multi-touch interaction, powerful processor, advanced graphics core - these are all things that make the current iPhone a potential mobile gaming powerhouse. Thanks to Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR MBX 3D graphics video core that lies within the iPhone’s Samsung-manufactured ARM SoC (System on Chip) chip architecture, OpenGL ES 1.1 is supported by the Apple [...]

Don't forget to enter the draw for the 2008 KPMG Tax Planning book. Click here to enter. In highschool and university I was a trekkie. Not a defcon-5 kinda trekkie who actually made it out to a convention, but I was a fan. One of the fictional races in the Star Trek universe was the Ferengi who were known as being mega-capitalists more than anything else - their government and religion was based around "profit", and they all lived and died by "The Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition". I thought I would share some of the 285 rules with you. The ones here are pretty good and might be transferable to the real world:#8. Small print leads to large risk.#9. Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.#34. War is good for business.#35. Peace is good for business.#48. The bigger

QDC TECHNOLOGIES, PTJOB VACANCIESPT. Qdc Technologies is The Fast Growing Company specialized in telecommunication infrastructure development and construction, invites you to be a part of our team for the following immediate opening:SITE ACQUISITION OFFICER (FOR SUMATERA AREA)Job Responsibilities :· Site hunting· Price negotiation· Making Berita Acara Kesepakatan with the Land / properties owner· Handling legal aspect related to site acquisition· Socialization to people who living inside the tower radius, also to local government related to BTS Construction· Handling permits from government related to construction and operationally of BTS (consist of IMB, HO, Izin Prinsip, RKT, etc)Job Requirements :· Male, due to the job related to outdoor activities· Having at least 2 years work

Microsoft has dropped its nearly three-month-long pursuit of Yahoo, ending a historic acquisition attempt whose failure takes Microsoft back to square one in its quest to boost its online business to better compete against Google. “We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market as a whole. [...]

Buffett calls Iscar ‘dream’ acquisition By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch Last Update: 12:22 PM ET May 3, 2008 OMAHA, Neb. (MarketWatch) — Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett said on Saturday that the company’s acquisition last year of the Israeli firm Iscar has worked out better than expected. Buffett said that he had very high expectations when Berkshire struck the deal, and that [...]

I met Black Duck CEO, Doug Levin back in October 2003 at the Enterprise Linux Forum in Washington D.C. I instantly liked him. He was just starting Black Duck Software and as a ex-Microsoftie talking about IP assurance I wasn’t convinced about the bright future of his business. However, I enjoyed meeting Doug and wished him the best of luck and went on my way. It wasn’t long before Doug’s venture received funding and support from Red Hat who also invested in the business, a telling sign. Black Duck has grown to be a leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code.

Last month, Malaysian weekly The Edge quoted sources as saying Maybank wanted to buy a stake of 10 to 20 percent in MCB. (Reporting by Clarence Fernandez and Niluksi Koswanage in Kuala Lumpur and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Organogenesis, Inc., the world's most successful regenerative medicine company, announced the strategic acquisition of Baton Rouge-based NanoMatrix, Inc. NanoMatrix's platform technology develops "designer scaffolds" for the purposes of regenerative medicine, based on the fabrication technique known as electrospinning.Source: Organogenesis

Organogenesis, Inc., the world's most successful regenerative medicine company, announced the strategic acquisition of Baton Rouge-based NanoMatrix, Inc. NanoMatrix's platform technology develops "designer scaffolds" for the purposes of regenerative medicine, based on the fabrication technique known as electrospinning.Source: Organogenesis

HD Partners Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: HDP) (AMEX: HDP.U) (AMEX: HDP.WT), a SPAC, has been liquidated today. The Company will pay out $149,622,864.99 of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Today, we have seen what may be one of the few special purpose acquisition companies, or SPAC's, see a return of capital with a proposed deal voted down by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANDE) is making a niche acquisition to fit into its fertilizer operations. It has acquired Douglass Fertilizer & Chemical Inc. as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Blackstone Group LP’s property unit has made its first purchase in the Indian real estate market by paying $18 million for a minority stake in Synergy Property Development Services. Blackstone’s property unit is buying the stake in the Bangalore-based property management and construction company, the newspaper reported. Blackstone was one of the most active private equity [...]

Arbor Networks, a leading provider of secure service control solutions for global business networks, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Ellacoya Networks, a leading provider of carrier-class broadband service optimization solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The new Arbor is addressing the most strategic issues for service providers – security and service control; assuring their future success with best-in class network protection and the means for delivering revenue-generating, differentiated secure services and service plans. The new Arbor provides intelligent visibility across the network (from core to broadband edge) and protection from network threats (routing issues, DDoS attacks, high bandwidth consuming applications like P2P, and VoD).

Salesforce’s stock price jumped over 10% today to an all time high (the Nasdaq rose a little over 1%). The company’s market cap rose $743 million, to $8.06 billion. Why the big jump? There is no public information or news emerging to support the increase. Our sources in private equity say it was fueled by [...]

Angelo, Gordon Acquisition Corp., a Blank Check company or a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, has filed to come public via an IPO. The company has filed to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Last night, we saw another SPAC IPO filing with the SEC. GF ACQUISITION CORP. filed as a Specialty Purpose Acquisition Company to come public via a sale of 8... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

IBM announced the acquisition of Diligent Technologies, this being the third buy Big Blue make in the storage fields. Through this move, IBM plans on adding data de-duplication technology developed by Diligent Technologies to its own storage portfolio. In the last few months IBM has made two more grabs in the area, including Softek, NovusCG, and Arsenal Digital Solutions. The company also purchased the Israeli-based XIV in January and announced earlier this month its intention of acquiring FilesX, a provider of continuous data protection software.According to IBM, Diligent's technology will become an important part of IBM's New Enterprise Data Center model. Data de-duplication technology offerings are tailored to give a hand to organizations in improving efficiencies and reducing costs of

Microsoft’s acquisition of Danger Inc., the company who designed the SideKick for T-Mobile. Today, Microsoft announced it has completed the acquisition of Danger, which will be merged into the Entertainment and Devices Division that also oversees the Xbox business, as well as the Zune, Microsoft TV and the Windows Mobile software. You don’t buy a company [...]

Wealth-Bulletin.com Degroof Bank, Belgium's largest private bank, is been linked to the possible acquisition of French wealth manager Aforge Finance, according to a report in the French publication Challenges. A spokesman for Degroof was unwilling to comment on the report. Degroof already has a presence in the French wealth management market through its 49.9% share of Philippe Patrimoine, a Paris-based wealth manager. Leave a comment

After the close this evening, ethnic media player Radio One, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROIAK) (NASDAQ: ROIA) announced it was acquiring a social networking company called... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

SWIR - Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ) - (Closing Price - $18.43)   Yesterday, Sierra Wireless announced it agreed to buy privately held CradlePoint Inc, which develops and supplies wireless networking products, in a cash and stock deal worth about 30.2 million. The company expects the deal to add to earnings by the end of 2008, excluding restructuring and integration [...]

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) has announced a dual-pronged deal this morning. It has signed an agreement to acquire eScription, a provider of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Google acquired DoubleClick, an important name on the online advertising market, for $3.1 billion and along with the finalization of the transaction, the Mountain View company will also impose a few major changes. One of them is quite bad news for some Googlers because no less than 300 employees will be fired due to the Google-DoubleClick mix. According to PC Pro, a Google official has explained the decision as an "inevitable side effect of a large acquisition." And it was a large acquisition since Google paid that much for a company which also captured the attention of other giants such as Microsoft or Yahoo. "As with many mergers, this review has resulted in a reduction in headcount at the acquired company. Today, we are laying off some DoubleClick employees in the U

Fintech Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, has filed to come public via an IPO. The filing shows a target of $100 million. Each... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Microsoft made a $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo! on February 1, 2008, and since then we've been waiting to see what happens next.  While nothing officially has been announced, there is speculation that the deal may be nearing its next phase.  Yahoo! hasn't come up with a miracle deal to save the company, and can only stall so long.  Yahoo! has already delayed the voting for a new Board of Directors, but Microsoft "reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!’s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal", and according at least to TechCrunch, is ready to take over the Board if it should become necessary. However, beating Yahoo! up to perhaps get a better price, or dragging them thro

Noble Intl 4Q Loss More Than Doubles On Acquisition Cost Last Update: 3/28/2008 12:02:07 AM DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Noble International Ltd.’s (NOBL) fourth-quarter loss widened to $4.97 million, or 21 cents a share, from $2.22 million, or 16 cents a share, in the prior-year period, due in part to acquisition-related costs of $2.3 million and a noncash equity loss of $1.5 [...]

Leopard Acquisition Corp. is another special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, that has filed to come public via an initial public offering. It has filed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Em parceira com a APIES (Associação de Professores de Inglês do Espírito Santo) e Workshop Language School chegou a vez de Vitória e região me receberem mais uma vez. Seguem abaixo os detalhes do evento: ENGLISH ON THE TIP OF THE TONGUE: Workshop on lexical acquistion and teaching Local: Auditório do CEFETES em Vitória - ES Data e [...]

Malayan Banking Bhd is undertaking a massive RM8.6bil acquisition for Indonesia’s sixth largest bank -- PT Bank Internasional Indonesia Tbk (BII) -- after succeeding in securing a 55.7% stake from Temasek Holdings Bhd.Maybank told Bursa Malaysia on Wednesday that it had entered into a share sale agreement with Temasek’s unit Fullerton Financial Holdings Pte. Ltd. (FFH) to acquire its 100% stake in Sorak Financial Holdings Pte. Ltd for about RM4.8bil.Sorak owns 55.7% of BII and upon completion of the agreement Maybank will be the controlling shareholder of BII.As required by Indonesia’s regulatory rules, it would have to make a tender offer for the remaining 44.3% shares held by the remaining shareholders of BII.“The total amount involved for the tender offer is approximately Rp11.0

Last month, I wrote about about why Goldman Sachs being the only major investment bank not to get into the Special Purpose Acquisition Company was such a worrying trend (that link will also explain everything you want to know about SPACs). Guess they didn't want to dissapoint anybody, so it seems Goldman Sachs just filed for a $350 million blank-check IPO which promises to change the rules of the

Workshop on Lexical Acquistion and Teaching Local: Auditório do CEFETES em Vitória - ES. Data e Horário: 28 de março (sexta-feira), das 9h às 12h e das 14h às 17h. Inscrições: Poderão ser feitas no dia do evento a partir das 08h30. Mais Informações: APIES - apies@terra.com.br Teacher trainer: Denilso de Lima Programa: Gramática e Vocabulário: uma “briga” grande Vocabulário: ampliando o conceito Collocations [...]

Liberty Lane Acquisition Corp., another special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, has filed to come public via an initial public offering of $350 million... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I think the Fed may have taken on a bit more than they can handle here. The Bear-JPM marriage hasn't even honeymooned yet (more on that below), and yet another party is lining up to ask the Fed to help consummate its marriage with yet another subprime troubled bank. Mark Calvey, San Francisco Business Times, reports Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf as saying in a recent interview that "I would not be

Google acquired another company which is providing services to manage voice communications. The name of this company is Grand Central. GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. Grand Central helping you to link all phones (home, office, personal etc...)to a phone number that generated in this website, you can set to ring all, some, or none of your phones, based on who's calling. This way, your phone number is tied to you, and not your location or job. Similary you will get central Voice Mail box, you can listen all these voice mails either online or from any phone, forward them to anybody. Other than these Grand Central having the features o

Google acquired another company which is providing services to manage voice communications. The name of this company is Grand Central. GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. Grand Central helping you to link all phones (home, office, personal etc...)to a phone number that generated in this website, you can set to ring all, some, or none of your phones, based on who's calling. This way, your phone number is tied to you, and not your location or job. Similary you will get central Voice Mail box, you can listen all these voice mails either online or from any phone, forward them to anybody. Other than these Grand Central having the features o

Microsoft announced its acquisition of Komoku, a company that offers advanced rootkit detection capabilities. Microsoft said it will build Komoku's technology into future versions of its line of security software for businesses.

Microsoft announced its acquisition of Komoku, a company that offers advanced rootkit detection capabilities. Microsoft said it will build Komoku's technology into future versions of its line of security software for businesses.

Marathon Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: MAQ, MAQ.U, MAQ.WS), special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, has announced that it will effect a merger with Global... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

European antitrust regulators on Tuesday approved Google’s $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick, paving the way for a blockbuster deal in Internet search and publisher-based advertising tools. Approval by the European Commission, which came without conditions, had largely been expected to occur this week. The Commission’s announcement comes three weeks before its April 2 deadline, in which [...]

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) and Coca-Cola Co. (KO) are both aggressive dealmakers. But the beverage giants have forked out acquisition dollars in diverging ways over the last year, with PepsiCo focusing more on international deals, and Coke leaning to the U.S. PepsiCo and its biggest bottler Thursday said they were buying the juice business of Russia’s Lebedyansky (LEKZ.RS) [...]

Lambert’s Cove Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition corporation, submitted an IPO filing. The date is march 18 on the filing but the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

1st Software plans $175m acquisition of property firm - Singapore It will issue new shares to acquire Teambuild in reverse takeover deal By WINSTON CHAI IN a bid to retain its listing status, 1st Software is acquiring a construction and property development firm for $175 million in a reverse takeover deal. 1st Software entered into an agreement with Teambuild [...]

GHL Acquisition Corp. (Amex: GHQ-U), a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC, has announced that it has allowed for the separation in trading of its... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Neil Mason At its core, digital marketing optimization is a combination of philosophy, process, data, and technology. You have to want to optimize and you have to be able to go through the test, learn, and adjust cycles quickly enough to make a difference. In my last column, I outlined the approach to breaking [...]

REDMOND, Wash. — March 14, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers. Rapt’s technology, along with its information and advisory services offerings, will become key components of the Atlas Publisher Suite, part of Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group. [...]

Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers. Rapt’s technology, along with its information and advisory services offerings, will become key components of the Atlas Publisher Suite, part of Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group. With the inclusion of Rapt, the Atlas [...]

BHG ACQUISITION CORP., another special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, has filed to come public via an IPO. It plans to sell some 35 million units for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has announced its intended acquisition of Kidaro. This is said to be a leading provider of desktop virtualization solutions for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

J.W. Childs Acquisition I Corp., yet another SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, has submitted an IPO filing. The filing shows a $200 million target... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

March 12, 2008: 12:42 AM EST SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) — Google Inc. won approval from European regulators Tuesday to acquire DoubleClick, paving the way for a major push by the Web search giant into the graphical display advertising market. European Commission approval was the last remaining obstacle for the merger of Google (GOOG) and [...]

Google acquired doubleclick, DoubleClick gives Google the leading platform for display advertising, enabling them to rapidly bring advances to the market in technology and infrastructure that will dramatically improve the effectiveness, measurability and performance of digital media for publishers, advertisers and agencies. By this acquisition Google have few strategies.- Google wanted to deliver more relevant display ads- Google wanted trust of users in their business- Google wanted Fast loading of web pages by improving Infrastructure with doubleclick- Google want to give more revenue to publishers and more benefits to advertisers - Google want to give rich and diverse content for Internet users in the world (Source: Googleblog)

PJSC Acquisition Corp. is another SPAC, or special purpose acquisition corporation, that has submitted an IPO filing to come public. The filing shows a target... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]