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Technology sector to rev up IPO recovery
News IT firms and emerging markets including China, India and Brazil, will lead recovery of public listing activities, finds new survey on global investors.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business development/management, Survey, U.S., Business Strategies & Functions, India, Technology Sector, IPO, Investor, oil & gas
Tech Mahindra wins bid for Satyam
News update Subsidiary of Tech Mahindra edges out contenders including Larsen and Toubro, for right to acquire 51 percent stake in embattled IT services company.
Tags: Acquisitions, Services, India, British Telecommunications, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Pune, information technology company, technology company, chairman
As tech slips, Sun could stumble
News Because nearly 20 percent of its sales come from financial companies, Sun may be especially vulnerable, say analysts.
Tags: Financial, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Bank of America Corp., software, technology company, bank, shareholder, Silicon Valley, asset
Ex-MySpace CEO wants to gamble on social games
News In Chris DeWolfe's new venture, sources say, he'll attempt to snowball a bunch of social online games properties and pit himself against industry leader Mark Pincus of Zynga.
Tags: Games, Facebook, MySpace, Rupert Murdoch, CEO, Online Game, News Corp., entertainment, TechCrunch, private equity
Yahoo reportedly considers deleting Zimbra
News Web e-mail software company may not fit into a media-oriented Yahoo, and so Zimbra could be on the block just two years after being acquired.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web servers, Zimbra, Interactive Advertising Bureau, chief marketing officer, Comcast Corp., e-mail company, media company, private equity
IBM bets on Brazilian innovation
News Big Blue's new initiative to stimulate development of Brazil's nascent tech industry is the latest sign of the country's rising power.
Tags: Hardware, Consumer Technology, IBM Corp., India, Training, Innovation, venture capital, entrepreneur, China, private equity
Yahoo stock rises on new acquisition report
News A second report indicates that AOL's former CEO, Jonathan Miller, is interested in buying some or all of Yahoo.
Tags: Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Stock, venture capital, venture-capital fund, Velocity, Wall Street Journal, private equity
Skype co-founders may buy it back
News Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis sold the company to eBay in 2005 for US$2.6 billion. They may be trying to buy it back now for US$2 billion, the New York Times reported.
Tags: VoIP, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Internet phone, private equity company, venture capital, venture-capital company, co-founder, New York Times Co., finance
Palm investor to kick in an extra US$100M
News Elevation Partners agrees to infuse the struggling handset maker with an additional US$100 million, in a move to underwrite the company's 2009 new product launch.
Tags: PalmOS compatibles, Operating systems, Investments, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Mobile, Elevation Partners, Smart Phone, Investor
PayPal president: No spinoff
News Payment site's Scott Thompson dispels the notion that eBay, with plans to spin off Skype, will follow suit with its other major subsidiary.
Tags: E-commerce, E-business, Skype Technologies S.A., PayPal, eBay Inc., Stock, payment, asset, private equity, president
AT&T, Vodafone bid for Huawei handset business?
News The two mobile operators are supposedly one of several companies looking to buy a stake in Huawei's handset business.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Acquisitions, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Research In Motion Ltd., phone, AT&T Corp., China, revenue, partnership, U.S.
Tech M&A spending takes steep hit in third quarter
News Tech mergers and acquisitions fell by a third in the September quarter, fueled by credit tightening and havoc on Wall Street, according to a report by The 451 Group.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Quarter, Google Inc., M&A, technology company, financial, financial analyst, bank, valuation
Venture capitalists pin hopes on green-tech 'exits'
News Green-tech sectors--solar, alternative fuels, auto, and wind--are expected to get more money from venture capitalists in the coming year, with hopes of healthy IPOs in 2010.
Tags: Venture capital, Green IT, Investments, Mobile, Google Inc., IPO, Stock, venture-capital company, KPMG Consulting Inc., Green-technology Venture
Why Korea's SK Telecom wants Sprint
News news analysis With its home market nearly saturated, Korea's No. 1 mobile-phone operator seeks an acquisition to become a big player in the lucrative United States.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, WiMax, Mobile platforms/communications, Next-generation technology/networks, SK Telecom Co., Sprint Communications, bank, China, shareholder, asset
Freescale wants out of the mobile chip market
News The chipmaker is facing financial troubles, and one of its biggest customers, Motorola, has seen its handset business fall on hard times.
Tags: Mobile processors, Mobile, Chip, marketing, multimedia, asset, handset, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., chipset, spokesman
