News: Mergers & Acquisitions

• Data Domain board rejects EMC takeover offer
  Lucas Mearian
  Jun 15 2009

  Deduplication vendor Data Domain Inc.'s board of directors announced today that they rejected EMC's $1.8 billion buyout offer, and said they are recommending to stockholders that they instead accept ...

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• Q&A: NetApp's Jay Kidd discusses bidding war with EMC for Data Domain
  Lucas Mearian
  Jun 03 2009

  NetApp Inc. today reached a revised acquisition agreement with data deduplication vendor Data Domain Inc., but rival EMC has already one-upped NetApp's offer to buy the company once before, and may ...

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• Dell building up its cash reserves for acquisition
  Sumner Lemon
  May 29 2009

  Dell plans to grow its business by acquiring another company, a senior executive said Friday. "Michael [Dell] did talk about our desire to increase activity for inorganic growth. We have ...

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• NetApp to acquire Data Domain for $1.5 billion
  Stephen Lawson
  May 21 2009

  Storage vendor NetApp has agreed to acquire Data Domain, a maker of disk-based backup products, for about US$1.5 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. NetApp will buy all outstanding shares ...

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• Yahoo, Alibaba relationship frays under Bartz
  Owen Fletcher
  May 19 2009

  Relations between Yahoo and Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo's China operations, have soured since Carol Bartz took the helm of the online search giant, a source close to the relationship ...

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• Ballmer meeting with Alibaba CEO stirs Yahoo speculation
  Owen Fletcher
  May 18 2009

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met last week with Jack Ma, the CEO of top Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo's operations in China. The meeting drove speculation in China ...

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• Yahoo may offload personals to Barry Diller
  Paul Boutin, The Industry Standard
  Apr 30 2009

  IAC CEO Barry Diller said during the first quarter conference call that his company, which owns the popular match.com personals service, is looking into taking Yahoo Personals off of new CEO Carol ...

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• Oracle-Sun deal: Schwartz shows up pundits, IBM ends up the loser
  Paul Boutin, The Industry Standard
  Apr 20 2009

  Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, owner of perhaps the last CEO ponytail in Silicon Valley, has shown up the all-knowing pundits who dubbed him "My Little Pony." Less than two weeks after ...

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• Should eBay sell Skype back to its founders?
  Paul Boutin, The Industry Standard
  Apr 13 2009

  Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are trying to buy back their Internet phone company from eBay, the New York Times reported over the weekend. The pair are said to have ...

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• Time for Twitter to sell?
  Paul Boutin, The Industry Standard
  Apr 09 2009

  No business model? No problem! Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann says now is the perfect time for Twitter's management to sell the company. Searching for a way to build Twitter's six million tweets per ...

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