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How to grow tech businesses during a recession
Comment He is CEO of private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw and has been building and selling businesses since 1985. Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den judge James Caan explains how to shape up your business through... [06 Oct 2009]
Why Do Private Equity Firms Underachieve Their Planned ROI?
White Paper This paper has made the point that private equity firms have a tendency to overplan but under-execute their value-creation activities. Investors who are the customers of private... [02 Oct 2009]
European Finance Employees Build Stronger Business Relationships With Management Tool
White Paper Established in 1990, HgCapital is a private equity firm with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands. HgCapital aims to generate high risk-adjusted returns for its investors by... [21 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News Meanwhile, reports surfaced that Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were interested in repurchasing the company, with the aid of private equity firms KKR, Warburg Pincus, Elevation Partners,... [01 Sep 2009]
Ericsson snaps up Nortel's wireless tech for $1.13bn
News Nokia Siemens Networks and private equity firm MatlinPatterson were its competitors. Ericsson cast the $1.13bn winning bid in an auction for the wireless assets of bankrupt Nortel Networks, the companies... [27 Jul 2009]
Former-iPod chief takes reins as Palm CEO
News Colligan will take some time off, then join Elevation Partners, the private equity firm that has a 25 per cent stake in Palm. Palm announced Wednesday afternoon that Jon Rubinstein will become the new... [11 Jun 2009]
eBay to spin off Skype
News Meanwhile, reports surfaced earlier this month that Skype's founders were interested in repurchasing the company, with the aid of private equity firms KKR, Warburg Pincus, Elevation Partners and Providence. [15 Apr 2009]
Bournemouth braced for first Fibrecity homes
News The superfast seaside broadband network is being built by sewer fibre-laying company H2O Networks, and is wholly funded by private equity investment. The first clutch of homes to be connected to the... [20 Jan 2009]
'Every day, big, meaty CIOs are being let go... '
News Meanwhile, private equity houses engaged in merger and acquisition activity also present openings to CIOs with experience of integrating a lot of systems and due diligence work, according to Heidrick &... [12 Jan 2009]
UK tech gets £30m Xmas bonus
News ECF grants supply equity finance of up to £2m to SMEs with the potential for high growth that would otherwise find it tough to secure such financial backing. CfEL has set up 22 funds in the past six years covering £600m... [02 Dec 2008]
Yahoo! ditches Kelkoo
News has sold the European shopping and price comparison site Kelkoo to a UK-based private equity firm. Yahoo! A Yahoo! spokeswoman confirmed to silicon.com that Jamplant completed the acquisition of the... [24 Nov 2008]
Infor to buy and build tech
News The majority of the company is currently owned by private equity firm, Golden Gate Capital. Infor will mix new products developed in-house with those from its acquisitions as it looks to show it can... [17 Oct 2008]
Yahoo!-Microsoft: New deal on the table?
News stock reaches new lows, it appears a private equity fund that owns a small percentage of Yahoo! As Yahoo! s stock has proposed a new deal for selling the company to Microsoft. Mithras Capital Partners,... [10 Oct 2008]
Enterprise Transformation and Network Architecture: Constructing a Platform for Business Value Acceleration
White Paper Whether the company is being strongly affected by globalization, outsourcing, private equity competition, increased regulation, or Web 2.0, it is clear that future requirements for enterprise computing... [13 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment She joined Birds Eye Iglo last year with a remit to essentially build a completely new IT infrastructure and function for the organisation after it was sold off to private equity group Permira by Unilever. [11 Jun 2008]
