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Introducing the New VMware Management Solution Portfolio
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New Owners for Print Chain AlphaGraphics
Doc will be paying attention to see what happens next – private equity buyers are usually in for the short term, looking to maximize profits and cut costs so they can re-sell at a profit....
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Is Novell's Linux business still up for sale?
Observers say the dust hasn't settled on the so called Attachmate-Novell merger --and that Novell's Linux business may still be up for sale. Attachmate is owned by an investment group led by...
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WSJ: AOL, private equity exploring bid for Yahoo
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL and several private equity firms, including Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group, are "exploring the possibility" of bidding for Yahoo or taking...
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Mervyns – The cautionary tale of selling one’s business
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Livelihoods of Thousands BusinessWeek (12/6/2008) did a great job of dissecting of what went wrong in the collapse of U. S. retailer, Mervyns (see "What Have You Done to...
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Cheap oil signal end of greentech bubble?
Oil futures are dropping to depths not seen for months. Even Hurricane Ike was not able to hike up the oil futures. That devastating hurricane was trumped by the downward spin of the world's...
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Yahoo's conundrum: White knights are hard to find
Yahoo is reportedly holding out hopes that there's an alternative to Microsoft's $44.6 billion unsolicited takeover, but it's becoming clear that white knights are missing in action. According to...
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In-flight Internet might work for you, but not for me
On Wednesday, in-flight mobile broadband solutions provider AirCell announced an agreement with American Airlines that would enable inflight Wi-Fi Internet access. First up, sometime next year...
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The third Web wave--two degrees of separation
During a panel with venture capitalists at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit O7, Roger McNamee, co-founder of the private equity firm Elevation Partners, gave his view on the latest Internet driving...
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Michael Capellas has landed
Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq and MCI (formerly Worldcom), has landed at First Data Corp. First Data Corp. is an e-commerce payment company that you probably run into every day via...
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My hunch: Vonage's silence could mean looming private equity deal. And then....
Fellow blogger Andy Abramson notes that Vonage- they of the new press release every day- has been awful quiet on that front for at least the last two weeks. Andy thinks, as do I, that this could...
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Avaya agrees to private equity buyout: here's what comes next
IP telecommunications systems provider Avaya says this morning that it has agreed to a buyout offer of $8.2 billion in cash, or $17.50 a share, from private equity firms TPG Capital and Silver...
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Does private equity mean a boon for offshore outsourcing?
Patni Computer Systems, an Indian outsourcing company, plans to aim its services at private equity firms in a move that makes a lot of sense given the acquisition barrage in the U.S. To wit: On...
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Xactly closes new round, Bezos buys Expensewatch
Some interesting SaaS funding news: sales incentive management vendor Xactly just closed a $15 million funding round, while Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has become the new owner of...
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Microsoft to take the wraps off 'Antares' hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure
Microsoft is expected to announce some of its promised 'spring update' features for Windows Azure during a June 7 event.
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SAP gets huge cloud and extended business process boost with Ariba acquisition
SAP is focused on global cloud growth opportunities, but is wisely defining cloud as a place to do business and extend socially amplified discovery and collaboration efficiencies.
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Private Cloud: 'Everyone's got one. Where's yours?'
Promising the business a cloud delivered within your own data center, and then failing to provide basic functionality of a cloud, will just make future initiatives and interactions even harder.
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Public cloud execs dish out Top 10 tips for enterprises building hybrid clouds
"Enterprise-class" or "cloud class?" Enterprises are now looking to public cloud providers to figure out how to build the best hybrid cloud. At InterOp recently, executives from Rackspace,...
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Target looks toward online, mobile platforms to boost bottom line
Target, one of America's biggest big box retailers, is finally putting more of the focus on its online experience.
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Flash mob stages conga line privacy protest against Facebook
Online privacy company Abine organizes simultaneous protests in New York and San Francisco to highlight concerns about Facebook's access to private data.
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To be private cloud, or be public cloud: Is that really the question?
The I&O team needs to decide whether they embrace the fact that the business is going to the cloud and simply go along -- knowing full well that such a path could lead to their own obsolescence....
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