News: Mergers & Acquisitions

• Broadcom launches hostile $764M bid for Emulex
  The Associated Press
  Apr 22 2009

  Chip designer Broadcom Corp. is launching a $764 million hostile takeover offer for network gear maker Emulex Corp. Broadcom said Tuesday the deal would help it develop new technologies for corporate ...

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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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• Ballmer: Definitely "No" on buying The New York Times
  Paul Boutin, The Industry Standard
  Mar 20 2009

  On Thursday morning in Manhattan, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spelled out his complete disinterest in acquiring the debt-saddled New York Times Company. "No," Ballmer replied to a ...

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• Cisco acquires Flip camera maker, analysts bring out the knives
  Paul Boutin, The Industry Standard
  Mar 20 2009

  On Thursday, network equipment megalith Cisco Systems announced the pending acquisition of Pure Digital, makers of the popular Flip video camera whose success is due to its one-button simplicity and ...

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• Sony Ericsson declines to comment on breakup rumors
  Carla Thornton, The Industry Standard
  Mar 19 2009

  In the wake of significant financial losses, the Sony Ericsson mobile partnership may be on the rocks. According to the German publication Manager-Magazin.de, Ericsson wants out of the partnership. ...

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• Ruckus fails. What went wrong?
  Carla Thornton, The Industry Standard
  Feb 10 2009

  Ruckus is quiet. The five-year-old Herndon, Va.-based music service for college students abruptly shut down over the weekend, leaving behind thousands of users and a host of burned investors. To ...

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• Qimonda's woes will zap gamers, PC and servers users
  Dan Nystedt
  Jan 25 2009

  The bankruptcy filing by Germany's Qimonda AG last week marks a first for a major technology company amid the current global economic downturn, and it likely won't be the last. Qimonda's problems ...

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• Taiwan DRAM makers face losses from Qimonda
  Dan Nystedt
  Jan 25 2009

  Two Taiwanese DRAM makers face losses related to German chip giant Qimonda's bankruptcy filing, an example of how the downfall of a one company can ripple across the globe. Inotera Memories, ...

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