Mergers and Acquisitions

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• Insurers Feeling the Urge to Merge in 2010

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  M&A will likely dominate the insurance and reinsurance market next year, as stronger balance sheets inspire firms to look for growth through acquisitions. Following the September 2008 financial crisis, reinsurers lost around 18% of their capital , but it hasnt taken long for the carriers to stage a comeback. Now, ...
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• M&A is Coming Back. Is that Good News for Stocks?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  Wall Street awoke Monday to a couple of pleasant surprises on the deal front. Sanofi-Aventis ( SNY ) said its buying Chattem (CHTT) for a nifty 34% premium , while Bucyrus International ( BUCY ) said itll pay $1.3 billion for the mining division of Terex ( TEX ). If it seems like mergers and acquisitions are making a ...
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• Recent management books Dec 2009.

  
  Knights on the Road — Authority: 114
  Image via Wikipedia Why Teams Win. 9 keys to success in business, sport, and beyond. Dr Saul L. Miller. 2009. ISBN 9780470160435. At some time, I used to notice the large numbers of ex professional athletes I would meet in large multi-national sales forces.  I found their forces more organized, driven ...
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• “Merger Mania” Will Return in 2010: Here Are Three Ways To Profit

  
  Investment U — Authority: 555
  “Merger Mania” Will Return in 2010: Here Are Three Ways To Profit by Louis Basenese , Small Cap and Special Situations Expert Monday, December 21, 2009: Issue #1162 The masses balked at my projection. And, as they so often are, the masses were wrong. It’s not like I went out on a limb or anything ...
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• REPORT: VW finished eating companies, will now focus on digestion

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 736
  Filed under: Volkswagen , Earnings/Financials We have a feeling historians will spending a fair portion of next few years finding new words to describe just how bad this year was for the auto industry. And then, at some point, theyll get around to Volkswagen , a company that has been zagging while almost all ...
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• Yelp Walks Away from a Google Deal

  
  Jr Deputy Accountant — Authority: 144
  Ill be damned! Jeremy WTF are you thinking?!?!?!?! TechCrunch is reporting this morning that the Yelp CEO has told Google to shove it and walked away from a $550 million deal that would have finally given Yelp that much needed legitimacy it has never had as part of the creature called Google. And Im stunned. ...
  2 days ago

• Limelight Buys EyeWonder

  
  Telecom Ramblings — Authority: 131
  In a surprise acquisition, content delivery specialist Limelight Networks (LLNW: chart , news ) announced today the purchase of EyeWonder , a provider of interactive digital advertising, and especially video advertising.  Normally when I see a buy such as this it is a small one, but Limelight is shelling out $110M ...
  2 days ago

• DealZone Daily

  
  DealZone — Authority: 431
  “Saab story ends” we wrote on these pages last week. Now it has  begun again , after Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker raised a last-minute bid over the weekend. It looks as if there are other options, with General Motors saying it will look into several new expressions of interest for its Swedish unit. ...
  2 days ago

• London Stock Exchange ready to join forces with Turquoise

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • The merger will make trading of large blocks of shares easier • LSE will secure a 60% stake in the new holding company The London Stock Exchange is on the brink of sealing an investment in new rival trading platform Turquoise, securing a controlling stake in the specialist operator. The deal, is ...
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• SMB Books FREE Sampler CD

  
  Small Biz Thoughts by Karl Palachuk — Authority: 120
  Well, the SMB Community shines once again. We asked some of our authors to put together materials for us to distribute. The only requirement is that it be Truly Useful . We wanted to offer a free CD Sampler of the kinds of materials available at SMB Books. We only included material that has real value right now. ...
  3 days ago

• Google in talks to buy local listings site Yelp

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Google is in talks to acquire the popular reviews website Yelp, as it looks to bolster its presence in local listings. Reports suggest that the search engine is prepared to pay as much as $500m (£309m) for the San Francisco startup, which provides user-generated reviews of shops, restaurants and other businesses ...
  4 days ago

• DealZone Daily

  
  DealZone — Authority: 431
  Friday’s highlights from Reuters: The energy, finance, technology and healthcare industries are expected to be the hottest areas in a dealmaking market that in 2010 is likely to expand gradually from this year’s depressed levels . M&A totals $1.968 trillion so far in 2009, down 32 percent from full-year 2008 ...
  5 days ago

• O.C. software firm sold

  
  Jan Norman on Small Business — Authority: 130
  Irvine-based Mavent Inc. , which provides compliance software for the mortgage industry, has been sold to Ellie Mae , a Pleasanton software publisher for mortgage financial companies. Terms were not disclosed. Mavent has raised approximately $21 million in venture capital since its founding in 2000. Click ...
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• DealZone Daily

  
  DealZone — Authority: 431
  Thursday’s highlights: National Australia Bank made a surprise trump bid for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings’ Australian and New Zealand units on Thursday, in a cash deal that would value all of the target firm at around $12 billion.  The bid tops an offer from Australian life insurer AMP Ltd, which had faced ...
  6 days ago

• M&A Corner: Exxons XTO Deal Launches Energys Next Mega-Trend

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  The U.S. oil industry has experienced a variety of mega-trends over the past century and a half: The massive consolidation of John D. Rockefellers Standard Oil in the 1870s and 1880s; the era of diversification deals in the 1960s and 1970s; the period of hostile takeovers in the 1980s; and the era of large mergers in ...
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• William Kahn Moves to Seyfarth Shaw

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 480
  Yesterday William Kahn was an associate at Hogan & Hartson , or an associate at what will soon be Hogan Lovells .  Today Kahn is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw .  With firms cutting back on partnership promotions , who wouldn’t want to make that kind of leap? Kahn has a mergers and acquisitions practice ...
  6 days ago

• Delta: Plenty of room for airline industry consolidation

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 675
  Filed under: US Airways Group (LCC) , AMR Corp (AMR) , Contl AirlinesB (CAL) , UAL Corp (UAUA) , JetBlue Airways (JBLU) , Delta Air Lines (DAL) The fact that there hasnt been any action in a while doesnt mean there isnt room for more. Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Airlines ( DAL ), says that the airline ...
  6 days ago

• Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day 12/16: DOV/FLIR, IBM...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV) announced today that Datamax-ONeil, a Dover operating company in its Engineered Systems Segment and a global provider of label and receipt printing solutions, has acquired Extech Instruments Data Systems Division, one of the worlds leading developers of portable printers for ...
  6 days ago

• Kraft Foods challenges Cadbury over its hostile bid defence

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • US foodmaker questions Cadburys growth estimates • Cadbury hits back at Krafts smoke and mirrors tactics Kraft Foods today turned the tables on Cadbury claiming there were major uncertainties surrounding its ability to deliver on the long-term growth targets promised to shareholders as part of its defence ...
  1 week ago

• Hibernia Atlantic Buys MediaXstream, Enters Video Business

  
  Telecom Ramblings — Authority: 131
  Transatlantic cable operator Hibernia Atlantic announced this morning the acquisition of video transport and services provider MediaXstream .  MediaXstream operates a Dynamic Transport Mode (DTM) network across 20 cities on both sides of the Atlantic, specializing in transporting full HD content between site and ...
  1 week ago

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