Mergers and acquisitions
hideThe phrase mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly without having to create another business entity.
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News tagged with acquisitions
Prepping for Oracle, Sun predicts weak results
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. projected quarterly results below Wall Street estimates Tuesday, signaling it will clear some charges off its books ahead of its $7.4 billion acquisition by Oracle Corp.
Google snaps up mobile ad startup for $750 million (Update)
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is buying mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million, underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to ensure its marketing machine reaches the growing number of people surfing the Web ...
Rivals taking advantage of delay in Oracle-Sun merger
Aug 07, 2009 |
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As antitrust regulators continue to scrutinize the year's biggest tech deal, Oracle's planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, competitors in the high-end hardware business and open-source software market have wasted ...
Director experience with acquisitions improves firm performance
Jan 07, 2009 |
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A new study in Strategic Management Journal examines how the nature of outside directors' prior experience, and resulting expertise, will influence the performance of a firm's performance. Results show that this past experi ...
Sun shares dive as IBM buyout talks falter
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc. fell in premarket trading Monday on news that IBM Corp. withdrew an acquisition offer.
Verizon 1st-qtr profit, revenue beat expectations
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. said Monday its earnings grew 5 percent in the first quarter, boosted by its acquisition of Alltel Corp. and strong demand for its wireless, Internet and TV services.
Joost seeks cable TV operator as buyer
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Online video site Joost is shopping itself around to different cable TV operators.
Microsoft to raise $3.75B in first debt offering
May 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. priced a $3.75 billion debt offering on Monday, a first for the world's largest software maker.
Google dropped idea of buying newspaper: CEO
May 21, 2009 |
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Google considered buying a newspaper but dropped the idea, the head of the Internet search giant said in an interview with the Financial Times.
NetApp to buy Data Domain in $1.5 billion deal
May 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Data storage company NetApp Inc. said Wednesday it agreed to buy data backup and disaster recovery systems provider Data Domain Inc. for $25 per share in cash and stock, or about $1.5 billion.
EMC counters NetApp bid for Data Domain
Jun 01, 2009 |
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US computer storage giant EMC Corp. offered 1.8 billion dollars on Monday for Data Domain in a bid to counter a rival offer for the data storage company from NetApp.
Intel, an infrequent acquirer, snaps up Wind River (Update)
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Intel Corp. is biting off its biggest acquisition in nearly a decade with an $884 million takeover of Wind River Systems Inc., a software maker with a colorful past.
AOL buys two Web startups
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Internet pioneer AOL, which Time Warner plans to spin off into an independent company later this year, announced on Thursday that it had bought two small Web startups focused on local content.
Dell: PC demand stable stabilizing
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- PC maker Dell Inc. said Monday it expects its fiscal second-quarter revenue to be slightly higher than in the first quarter, when sales plunged 23 percent to $12.3 billion.
Facebook buys social media aggregator FriendFeed
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Facebook is buying a Web service called FriendFeed that gives users a view of what their friends are doing on all sorts of social media sites, including Facebook's rivals.
