http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/207/all xx http://www.itworld.com/networking/80189/ciena-buy-nortel-unit-521-million Ciena has agreed to acquire Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks business for approximately $521 million in cash and stock. http://www.itworld.com/networking/80189/ciena-buy-nortel-unit-521-million#comments Networking News Ciena m&a Nortel Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:04:36 -0400 ITworld staff 80189 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/79295/oracle-buys-financial-reporting-software-hyperroll Oracle is buying software assets from HyperRoll to improve the reporting capabilities in Oracle's financial management software, the companies announced Monday. http://www.itworld.com/software/79295/oracle-buys-financial-reporting-software-hyperroll#comments Business Software News financial software m&a Oracle Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:35:10 -0400 ITworld staff 79295 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/career/79143/with-acs-xerox-will-gain-a-firm-growing-quickly-offshore Xerox will gain a company whose offshore workforce has grown rapidly over the past year when its acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services closes early next year. http://www.itworld.com/career/79143/with-acs-xerox-will-gain-a-firm-growing-quickly-offshore#comments Business News BPO m&a outsourcing Xerox Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:27:49 -0400 ITworld staff 79143 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/business/79034/facebook-feds-social-networking-site-acquired A serendipitous meeting in March between the CEOs of two cutting-edge tech firms focused on enhancing government communications has led to an acquisition. http://www.itworld.com/business/79034/facebook-feds-social-networking-site-acquired#comments Business Government News m&a social networking Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:54:22 -0400 ITworld staff 79034 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/79025/bulletin-xerox-will-buy-business-process-outsourcer-acs-64b Xerox has agreed to buy business process outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for US$6.4 billion, in a move it hopes will allow it to expand beyond the field of document management, it said Monday. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/79025/bulletin-xerox-will-buy-business-process-outsourcer-acs-64b#comments Business News BPO m&a outsourcing Xerox Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:46:46 -0400 ITworld staff 79025 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/78725/perot-worker-charged-insider-trading-dell-deal The U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday charged a worker with insider trading in Dell's purchase of Perot Systems this week. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/78725/perot-worker-charged-insider-trading-dell-deal#comments Business Legal News Dell IT services m&a Perot Systems Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:55:21 -0400 ITworld staff 78725 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/78526/acquire-me-oracles-and-saps-next-likely-targets A new 451 Group report serves up some tasty offerings to feed a possible acquisition binge by the enterprise software supervendors. Oracle's Larry Ellison is preparing to throw a pie at IBM: The only question is who will be the whipped cream. http://www.itworld.com/software/78526/acquire-me-oracles-and-saps-next-likely-targets#comments Business Software Feature m&a Oracle SAP Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:34 -0400 ITworld staff 78526 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/78290/bulletin-dell-agrees-buy-perot-systems-39b Dell has agreed to buy Perot Systems for around US$3.9 billion in cash, and intends to make the company its global services delivery division, the companies said Monday. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/78290/bulletin-dell-agrees-buy-perot-systems-39b#comments Business News Dell IT services m&a Perot Systems Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:41:54 -0400 ITworld staff 78290 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/storage/70242/emc-raises-bid-data-domain-21-billion EMC on Monday increased its offer to acquire storage vendor Data Domain from $1.8 billion to $2.1 billion. The all-cash offer is "clearly superior" to NetApp's $1.9 billion proposal, which includes stock and cash, EMC CEO Joe Tucci said in a letter to Data Domain's board that EMC publicly released. http://www.itworld.com/storage/70242/emc-raises-bid-data-domain-21-billion#comments Storage News data deduplication Data Domain EMC m&a NetApp Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:51:33 -0400 ITworld staff 70242 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/69573/5-mergers-less-aggravating-it-security-industry There's a school of thought that says that consolidation is actually making the security industry a less aggravating place. After all, most IT shops would rather see security baked into the larger IT infrastructure provided by the likes of Microsoft, Cisco and others than spend money on a growing array of bolt-on devices. http://www.itworld.com/security/69573/5-mergers-less-aggravating-it-security-industry#comments Security Opinion authentication data protection m&a Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:00:17 -0400 ITworld staff 69573 at http://www.itworld.com