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eBay's Skype sale gets green light
News The settlement restructures the deal with an investor group led by Silver Lake and puts an end to a dispute with software maker Joltid over the licensing of software that underlies Skype's internet telephony service. [06 Nov 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News The investor group, which will take a roughly 65 per cent stake in Skype, is led by Silver Lake and includes Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Lead investment firm Silver... [01 Sep 2009]
Freescale bought for $17.6bn
News Before it declare a union with Blackstone et al, Freescale had been rumoured to be the subject of a private equity bidding war with another group - including Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Silver... [18 Sep 2006]
Las Vegas at 100: Why it's tech's kind of town
Comment On 15 May 1905 Los Angeles and Salt Lake City Railroad held a land auction in the middle of the Nevada desert. In a city of contrasts and contradictions the opening of Nellis Air Force Base - famed for the mysteries of... [16 May 2005]
$75m pension problem haunts troubled EDS
News EDS said the buyers are Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus. An already struggling EDS says problems with a major contract have worsened, and it predicts a loss of up to $75m related to... [16 Mar 2004]
Microsoft no secret backer, SCO says
News On Thursday SCO acknowledged the authenticity of an email sent on 12 October from Michael Anderer, CEO of Salt Lake City venture firm S2 Partners, to SCO VP Chris Sontag and CFO Robert Bench. BayStar... [05 Mar 2004]
Torvalds hit with SCO Linux lawsuit subpoena
News IBM has cited a 16 October article in The Salt Lake Tribune that reported that Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Skiba visited SCO's headquarters and saw a "near exact duplicate of source code between the Linux 2.4 kernel and... [13 Nov 2003]
US police nab fugitive in eBay fraud case
News Fetterman fled his apartment in the South Lake Tahoe area after reading a story about the charges against him in a local newspaper, prosecutors said. Federal prosecutors in California are seeking to bring him to the... [15 Jan 2003]
Intel sells off software unit
News The new company will establish its headquarters near Salt Lake City. Intel will sell the unit, which produces the LANDesk series of management applications, to a new company, LANDesk Acquisition, formed recently by... [04 Sep 2002]
Model management: Floating, sinking, and delisting
Comment Seagate Software, part of Seagate Technology, was taken over last year by venture capital company, Silver Lake Partners, for $2bn. Taking a company public is stressful. Businesses have to meet a new set... [03 Apr 2001]
Seagate goes private in $20bn deal
News The deal involves an investor group made up of Silver Lake Partners, the Seagate management team and Texas Pacific Corporation, which will buy the Seagate operating business for $2bn in cash. Veritas will also acquire... [30 Mar 2000]
