News: Mergers & Acquisitions

• Samsung eyes possible acquisition of SanDisk
  Martyn Williams
  Sep 05 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  Samsung is eyeing a possible acquisition of memory chip-maker SanDisk. The company, which is the world's largest computer memory maker in the world, said it was "considering various opportunities"...

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• Tecmo to Square: No thanks, we're going steady with Koei
  Jack Loftus
  Sep 04 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  After Tecmo publicly rejected Square Enix's takeover bid Wednesday, the company quickly came back with an announcement Thursday that it was in talks with publisher Koei. Today, both companies entered...

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• Wall Street Beat: Yahoo slumps, strategic M&A continues
  Marc Ferranti
  Sep 04 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  As economic worries battered tech stocks in a brief post-Labor Day week, Yahoo hit a 52-week low, Oracle continued its buying spree to strengthen its SOA (service-oriented architecture) offerings,...

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• Red Hat buys desktop-virtualization vendor Qumranet
  John Fontana
  Sep 04 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  Red Hat Thursday extended its virtualization wares to the desktop, spending $107 million in cash to acquire open source vendor Qumranet, whose technology is based on a Linux kernel technology it...

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• Open Text to buy Captaris
  Chris Kanaracus
  Sep 04 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  Content management vendor Open Text plans to buy document and data capture software maker Captaris for roughly US$131 million, the company announced Thursday. The deal is expected to close by the end...

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• Red Hat adds to virtualization effort with acquisition
  Todd R. Weiss
  Sep 04 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. Thursday jumped deeper into the virtualization marketplace by announcing its acquisition of Qumranet Inc., which offers an embedded KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform...

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• Red Hat buys Qumranet to extend virtualization reach
  Peter Sayer
  Sep 04 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  Red Hat has expanded its support for virtualization technologies with the acquisition of Israeli software company Qumranet, developer of the open-source KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) project,...

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• Square Enix makes bid to acquire Tecmo
  Jack Loftus
  Sep 02 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  Square Enix has moved to acquire a majority stake in struggling video game publisher Tecmo Friday as part of a move to bolster its own RPG-heavy line up with more action. The takeover would also give...

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• Global dispatches
  Mike Bucken
  Sep 02 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  Infosys to Buy U.K. SAP Services Firm BANGALORE, India -- Infosys Technologies Ltd. last week agreed to acquire Axon Group PLC, an Egham, England-based services firm, for $747 million (U.S.) The deal...

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• Short takes
  Computerworld (US) staff
  Sep 02 2008
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  A network failure at a Federal Aviation Administration facility in Georgia caused some 650 flight delays at U.S. airports last Tuesday. The FAA said the glitch was likely caused by a software...

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