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Tag: mergers and acquisitions (page 5)
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Marketo Shareholders Sue to Halt Sale to Vista Equity, Allege Unfair Price
A Marketo shareholder has filed a class action lawsuit in California to block the company's proposed acquisition by Vista Equity Partners. In a suit filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court, Sonila Porwal alleges Marketo’s directors breached their fiduciary duties to Marketo stockholders by seeking to sell Marketo too cheaply
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Google Buys Anvato For Hi-Spec Video Content Publishing
Every marketer's heard the message — you need more video content and you need it now. Until cloud computing, incorporating video content was difficult and expensive to do. While challenges remain, it’s getting cheaper, with more companies entering the market. The latest contender? Google.
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How Social Graph Analytics Help Accelerate Post-Merger Sales
On average, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is a net-neutral investment. Approximately 70 percent of all mergers fail to match a market-based rate of return and the aggregate returns to buyers are basically zero.
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Cisco Acquires Cloud Security Provider for $293M
Cisco Systems paid $293 million in cash today to acquire a cloud security provider that provides visibility and analytics around user behavior and sensitive data in cloud services. San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco acquired Waltham, Mass.-based CloudLock Inc., which specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology. This marks Cisco's fourth acquisition this year and
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'Microsoft Has Cash to Spend' & Other Theories on the LinkedIn Acquisition
Forget about the meaning of life. The biggest unanswered question this week centers on Microsoft's decision to shell out $26.2 billion to acquire LinkedIn. What the hell was Microsoft thinking? No Shortage of Theories Speculation abounds, from those who see the pending deal as a big waste of money to something that
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Microsoft Bids to Acquire LinkedIn for $26.2B
In its largest acquisition in the history of the company, Microsoft announced today that it will acquire business social networking site LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. The mega-deal dwarfs the Redmond, Wash. software giant's previously largest acquisition, the 2011 purchase of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion. Including Skype and the
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A Surprise $1.79B Private Equity Investment - and the Fate of Marketo
Marketing software industry analysts said Marketo was ripe for acquisition — just not by a private equity firm. San Francisco-based Vista Equity Partners confirmed yesterday that it plans to scoop up the San Mateo, Calif.-based marketing automation provider for $1.79 billion yesterday or $35.25 per share — a 9.
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Vista Equity Partners Acquires Marketo
Just weeks after announcing its biggest technology investment to date, Marketo CEO and Chairman Phil Fernandez announced Vista Equity Partners is acquiring his company in a deal with $1.79 billion. San Francisco-based Vista is a private equity firm focused on software and technology-enabled businesses.
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Acquired? 3 Tips to Preserve Your Tech in the Handover
Last year was arguably the year of mergers and acquisitions in the tech world, with the value of tech deals reaching a whopping $450 billion in all.
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Marketo Reportedly Exploring a Sale to SAP or Microsoft
Marketo stock soared in afternoon trading today amid reports the company was considering strategic options, including a possible sale. Marketo stock closed up 24.69 percent to $26.77 on speculation that the company is actively courting a buyer. The San Mateo, Calif.-based marketing automation powerhouse, which went public in 2013,
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CrownPeak Merges with ActiveStandards, Names New CEO
Fifteen-year-old CrownPeak, one of the original Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) web content management providers, merged today with a London-based digital quality management provider. Los Angeles-based CrownPeak is joining with London-based ActiveStandards, which provides digital quality management (DQM) products. The merged companies will operate under the CrownPeak name.
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E-Discovery Firm Gains Market Muscle With Text Analytics Buy
A Chicago-based e-discovery company just acquired a text analytics company — a move that potentially sets the stage for market dominance. The deal involves kCura, the maker of Relativity, and Reston, Va.-based Content Analyst Company (CAC), developer of the CAAT analytics engine.
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Tableau Gets HyPer With German Acquisition
You could call Seattle, Wash.-based Tableau the sweetheart of the data workers world. Gartner consistently names the data visualization vendor Leader in its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics platforms.
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What You Should Know About Microsoft's Xamarin Buy
It is a move that many in the software development realm saw coming, but whose importance outside that realm isn’t instantly obvious. But yesterday, Microsoft announced its pending acquisition of San Francisco-based Xamarin, a company that helps developers use Microsoft’s programming language to create mobile applications. The company
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