http://www.techmalog.com -- Tracking Mergers & Acquisitions in the IT industry Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:27:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SAN JOSE, Calif. - August 27, 2008 - Building upon its commitment to provide a comprehensive collaboration portfolio, Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held PostPath, Inc., a provider of innovative email and calendaring software. Based in Mountain View, Calif. with additional development operations in Sofia, Bulgaria, PostPath ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/08/28/cisco-announces-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-postpath/ ARMONK, NY & PARIS - 28 Jul 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ILOG (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced they have signed an agreement regarding a proposed acquisition by IBM of ILOG to be implemented by way of concurrent cash public tender offers in both France and ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/07/30/ibm-buys-french-software-company-ilog/ From Live Search's official blog: We're excited to announce that we've reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco. Powerset brings with it natural language technology that nicely complements other natural language processing ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/07/02/microsoft-buys-powerset/ REDMOND, Wash. — June 17, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Navic Networks, a leading provider of television advertising solutions. Navic’s technologies include sophisticated campaign management tools that use relevant data to optimize the delivery and placement of targeted interactive television media and through Admira provide a ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/06/20/microsoft-announces-acquisition-of-navic-networks/ This is more a media M&A but I'm including it here because CNET covers the technology industry... NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 — CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) has entered into an agreement to acquire CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNET), it was announced today by Leslie Moonves, President ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/05/15/not-a-tech-ma-but-cbs-is-buying-cnet/ PALO ALTO, Calif., and PLANO, Texas, May 13, 2008 -- HP and EDS today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The terms of the transaction have been ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/05/13/confirmed-hp-is-buying-eds/ According to a NYTimes.com article, HP is offering to buy EDS for $12.6 billion in cash. HP is clearly trying to catch up to IBM in the game of IT services for large corporations, an area where IBM certainly has a commanding lead. A combination would lead to ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/05/13/hp-is-said-to-be-buying-eds/ After not being able to reach an agreement on the price and other terms, the negotiation fell apart and Microsoft is now withdrawing its offer to buy Yahoo! (Reportedly, Microsoft's final offer was $33 a share while Yahoo wanted at least $37.) See Microsoft's official press release here. ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/05/04/microsoft-withdraws-its-offer-to-buy-yahoo-is-it-the-end-of-all-this/ See the official announcement on Farecast's blog. (No official press release from Microsoft though.) http://www.techmalog.com/2008/04/17/microsoft-acquires-farecast-for-115m/ New York, NY, April 15, 2008 – AOL today announced that it has acquired Sphere Source, Inc., a leading provider of contextual-search tools which offers related content to publishers. Sphere will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL as part of the company's Programming division, which is led by ... http://www.techmalog.com/2008/04/15/aol-acquires-sphere/