Posts Tagged ‘ Mergers & Acquisitions ’

Yelp Turns Down Google, for Now

Yelp's board determined that Google's offer price was too low for the start-up, which publishes listings and reviews of local businesses.

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Tech Mergers Start to Pick Up

Thanks to a spate of large deals, the value of technology mergers rose in the second half of 2009 compared to the first half. Investment bankers say they are optimistic the trend will continue next year.

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E.U. Takes More Time to Review Oracle-Sun Deal

European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems.

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3Com’s Deal Maker of the Week?

The Deal Professor explores whether a lawyer from Wilson Sonsini deserves to be called deal maker of the week for his role in 3Com's deal with Hewlett-Packard.

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3Com’s Deal Maker of the Week?

The Deal Professor explores whether a lawyer from Wilson Sonsini deserves to be called deal maker of the week for his role in 3Com's deal with Hewlett-Packard.

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MySpace Said to Be in Talks to Buy Imeem

MySpace, the social networking platform, is in talks to acquire the struggling free music-streaming site imeem, according to press reports.

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Dassault Takes I.B.M Unit for $600 Million

Dassault Systemes, the French technology firm, has inked a $600 million deal to acquire part of I.B.M.'s sales and customer support unit.

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AOL Names Board for Post-Spinoff World

  • October 25th, 2009
  • Posted in AOL

AOL, which is being spun off by Time Warner, said Monday that it had named eight members to its board, including Michael K. Powell, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and the longtime venture capitalist William R. Hambrecht.

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Icahn, Making His Peace, Quits Yahoo’s Board

The billionaire financier Carl C. Icahn said late Friday that he was resigning as a director of Yahoo, saying the board no longer needed an activist investor.

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