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Aberdeen said to be in discussions to acquire RBSâ€™s fund unit

January 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, Scotland’s largest money manager, is in talks to acquire Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s fund management division, said two people familiar with the discussions.

Aberdeen may buy the unit for as much as 100 million pounds ($227 million) as soon as this month, said one of the people, who declined to be identified because the talks are private. The purchase would add as much as $45 billion of assets under management to the US$237 billion ($331 billion) Aberdeen already oversees.

Teledata to acquire 78% of Indonesian Internet service provider for $17.2m

December 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Teledata (Singapore), the regional IT systems integrator and communications services company, plans to acquire a major stake in a leading Indonesia-based Internet service provider, PT Centrin Online Tbk.

In its very first M&A deal under a new controlling shareholder and management, Teledata has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to acquire 446.74 million shares representing 77.679% of the issued and paid up capital of PT Centrin, for Indonesian Rupiah 116,152,400,000 or $17.2 million.

Microsoft to Acquire Health Care IT Company Sentillion

December 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft plans to acquire Sentillion, a privately held health care IT company that provides software applications for caregivers and physicians. Microsoft has made a number of partnerships in health care IT throughout 2009, including a deal with the American Medical Association to give physicians access to patient records through Microsoft’s HealthVault application. IT companies ranging from Google to Intel and Oracle have also pushed into the health care IT space.
– Microsoft
announced plans Dec. 10 to acquire Sentillion, a privately held health care IT
company. On its Website, Sentillion advertises itself as producing
quot;identity and access management technology quot; that allows hospitals and
caregivers to incorporate and control quot;islands of compu…

Mandarin Oriental may acquire luxury hotel brands

December 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Mandarin Oriental International, operator of 25 luxury hotels from Tokyo to San Francisco, may buy more brands as lodging companies struggle amid a decline in spending, Chief Executive Officer Edouard Ettedgui said.

“We probably can reach 80 to 100 hotels on our own, but if we want to get to 200, we have to do that through brand acquisitions,” Ettedgui said in an interview at the opening of the 392-room Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas. “If a luxury brand becomes available at a reasonable price, we’re interested.”

Cisco to Acquire ScanSafe for Web Security

October 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Cisco is set to acquire SAAS security vendor ScanSafe for roughly $183 million. The move, Cisco says, will help add to the Web security capabilities the company acquired when it bought IronPort two years ago.
– Cisco Systems announced plans to acquire software-as-a-service vendor
ScanSafe to broaden its presence in the cloud and expand its Web security
offerings.
The deal,
made for approximately $183 million, is expected to close in the second quarter
of Ciscos fiscal year 2010, and comes only two w…

Google Looking to Acquire Companies for Search, Display Ads, Google Apps, Chrome

October 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Google will buy large and small companies across many of its business lines, including search, advertising, enterprise, and Web browsing and operating systems, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during the search engine’s third-quarter conference call. In a rare admission of Google’s acquisition focuses, Schmidt opened the door for a lot of speculation in describing the types of purchases he and his corporate development team are eyeing. Schmidt also Google was looking to buy large companies where it makes sense.
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Google is considering acquiring large and small companies in search, advertising, enterprise,
and Web browsing and operating systems, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said during
the search engine’s third-quarter conference call Oct. 15.

In a rare admission of Google’s acquisitio…

Cisco to Acquire Starent for $2.9B as Buying Spree Continues

October 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Cisco is buying wireless infrastructure company Starent for $2.9 billion, the latest significant acquisition this year, following such purchases as Pure Digital and Tandberg. The move gives Cisco a greater wireless offering in a competitive space that includes the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, and comes as Cisco predicts mobile Internet traffic will double every year through at least 2013.
– Cisco Systems is continuing its aggressive acquisition strategy, this time grabbing mobile infrastructure vendor Starent Networks for $2.9 billion.
The cash deal continues a busy year in acquisitions for Cisco, whose purchases in 2009 also include Flip video camera vendor Pure Digital in May for ab…

Adobe to Acquire Omniture for $1.8B

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Adobe Systems enters into an agreement to acquire Omniture in a deal valued at $1.8 billion.
– Adobe Systems announced Sept. 15 that it has entered into an agreement to
acquire Omniture in a deal valued at $1.8 billion.
In a conference call with financial analysts regarding Adobe’s third-quarter
earnings as well as the Omniture transaction, Adobe President and CEO
Shantanu Narayen said th…

Linux Defenders Acquire 22 Former Microsoft Patents

September 8th, 2009 | No Comments

The Open Invention Network announces the acquisition from Allied Security Trust of 22 Linux-focused patents that were marketed and sold by Microsoft.
– The Open Invention
Network, quot;a collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open
source, quot; on Sept. 8 quot;announced the acquisition of 22 Linux-focused
patents that were marketed and sold by Microsoft, quot; the OIN said in a
statement.
quot;Today’s announcement evidences OIN…

MobileOne to acquire ISP Qala for $15-$18m

September 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Mobile, broadband and IDD service provider MobileOne (M1) today says wholly-owned subsidiary, M1 Net, has entered into an agreement to acquire all the issued and paid up ordinary shares of Qala Singapore Pte Ltd.

The total consideration for the acquisition is between $14.9–$17.9 million and was arrived at following negotiations between the parties on a willing buyer, willing seller basis, says M1.

Facebook Buys FriendFeed After Failing to Acquire Twitter

August 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook aims to plug its real-time content gap by buying FriendFeed, a social network aggregator that lets users create custom feeds of content from Facebook, Digg, YouTube and other services. One analyst says FriendFeed is Facebook’s consolation prize after failing to buy popular microblogging service Twitter.
– After failing to buy microblogging site Twitter, on Aug. 10 Facebook said it will acquire FriendFeed, which lets users
aggregate content from more than 60 social Websites and build customized
content feeds for sharing with friends.
Importantly, these feeds surface posts and comments in users’ ho…

Google to Acquire On2 Technologies

August 5th, 2009 | No Comments

CLIFTON PARK, NY and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (August 5, 2009) – On2 Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ONT) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire On2, a leading developer of video compression technology. Under the terms of the agreement, each outstanding share [...]

Andy Borowitz: Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

According to a Goldman spokesperson, the merger between Goldman and the Treasury Department is “a good fit” because “they’re in the business of printing money and so are we.”

Software AG USA Planning to Acquire IDS Scheer

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

The combination of Software AG USA and IDS Scheer will create a global vendor of infrastructure software and business process management with more than 6,000 employees and more than $1.39 billion in sales, Software AG USA said.
– The U.S.
subsidiary of Germany’s
largest software company, Software AG,
announced July 13 that it will acquire German business process management
consultant IDS Scheer for $21 per share.

Software AG USA, based in Reston, Va., said that it has already agreed to buy
out IDS Scheer’s two bigg…