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US ramps up probe into Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal
News But the deal - years in the making - could have arrived at a time when the DOJ is more in interested mergers and acquisitions than under past administrations. After years of a largely hands-off approach toward... [14 Sep 2009]
Secure Remote Access: Relieving the Security Pain of Industry Consolidation
White Paper In a rapidly changing economy where mergers and acquisitions are a daily occurrence, the pressure is on IT to rapidly integrate workforces while maintaining high levels of security. The diversity of... [04 Jul 2009]
Ensuring Service Availability
White Paper The telecommunications industry continues to experience tremendous growth in the face of many challenges - mega-mergers, increased competition, an unstable economy, and the Internet. Consumers and... [01 May 2009]
Google CEO: 'We're not immune to economic gloom'
News Schmidt also said that Google "was pretty inactive right now" on the mergers and acquisitions front, blaming unfavourable prices. Google CEO Eric Schmidt expects 2009 to be a "tough, tough" year and he warned the search... [04 Mar 2009]
Fewer white knights to tech's rescue in 2008
News During 2008, tech mergers and acquisitions fell 40 per cent across virtually every sector of the industry, with $290bn in deals getting done to date. The report said: "Unlike the earlier internet bubble, where the... [19 Dec 2008]
Legal Eye: Outsourcing through the credit crunch
Comment The IT challenge of rapid mergers and acquisitions As the economy heads into recession, it's time to delve into the legal implications of the downturn on outsourcing contracts. While everyone waits for... [26 Nov 2008]
US, Europe tighten IT spend as India, China boom
News According to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), local vendors were buoyed by mergers and acquisitions and better territorial coverage. The slowing US economy has seen 70 per cent of firms negotiating lower... [11 Sep 2008]
Five hot outsourcing trends to watch
News Duncan Aitchison, managing director of business advisory company TPI, told silicon.com even if the rumoured Infosys-Capgemini tie-up never materialises it reflects current "market sentiment", while other industry experts are predicting... [06 Jul 2007]
Bank security spend beats spam and malware
Case Study Much of the complexity was the result of previously failing to address the challenges of three mergers in eight years, which brought with them two legacy mail systems, according to Martin Farrelly, head of information... [03 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
Comment If they continue to follow the Western model, they can expect: rapid growth followed by competitive pressures to continually cut costs; efficiency drives; process re-engineering; consolidation, mergers and acquisitions. [18 Jul 2006]
China a "global ICT superpower" by 2010?
News Encouraging mergers and acquisitions would help develop economies of scale needed to support global brands, he added. China's success in the global info-communications and technology (ICT) sector will depend on the... [06 Sep 2005]
Driving Innovation and Lowering TCO Through SAP Master Data Management
White Paper This webcast discusses how to ensure successful mergers and acquisitions through streamlined master data harmonization. In today's economy, information is king - but not just any kind of information.... [16 Apr 2005]
Banks open to attack as security spending stales
News Mergers and acquisitions in the financial sector were also raising security concerns. The money-cautious approach to security may be a false economy - of those institutions that had suffered a breach, 40... [24 May 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: BPM, software industry consolidation and Google’s monopoly?
Comment This is already evident in the enterprise content management sector as a relentless series of mergers are transforming the landscape into a small number of the players providing a soup-to-nuts range of capabilities. [29 Feb 2004]
Serialisation: The Great Telecoms Swindle - part 2
Comment Five of the ten largest mergers in corporate history up to that point in time involved phone companies. Just how false was the false economy? It exposed the fact that the telecoms... [21 Jan 2003]
