The Economist reports that 2006 was the year for mergers and acquisitions with a total value reaching $4 trillion.
THE urge to merge has never been stronger, nor satisfied more expensively, than it was in 2006. The total value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) around the world reached almost $4 trillion, beating the previous record, [...]
The blogs are buzzing on the news of Google acquiring YouTube. Plenty of people have been musing about the intellectual property issues surrounding YouTube, the competition with MySpace Video, and Yahoo’s failure to acquire. And YouTube has been busy striking all sorts of interesting deals with traditional media companies. But no one’s really talking about [...]
EMC, my former employer, announced it was acquiring RSA for $2.1B. It’s their ballsiest (sp?) move to date. They’ve been talking about buying into the security wheel for sometime, but I thought it would continue around acqusitions like Enterprise DRM vendor Authentica.
I would suggest that acquisition of RSA is the most radical yet [...]
Full disclosure: I worked for EMC under the Documentum brand until recently.
Dave DeWalt discusses why EMC is so successful in spite of the fact that most software company mergers result in failure in an article on SandHill.com. It’s a great read for anyone interested in software M&A.
In the article, he discusses some of the inherent [...]