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Enterprise May Be Sexy, But....

Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….

By Zoli Erdos on June 4, 2013

On the very same day Salesforce.com acquires Exact Target in their largest ever transaction valued at $2.5B, TechMeme’s top news is crazy gamers dropped by even crazier gamers…

Posted in Business | Tagged acquisitions, ActiveState, appsecute, Exact Target, m&a, Omgpop, salesforce.com, techmeme, zynga | 1 Response

[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013

[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013

By Paul Miller on January 4, 2013

Towards the end of last year, David Linthicum and I joined GigaOM’s Adam Lesser on a skype chat to take a look back at cloud successes and failures in 2012, and forward to cloud opportunities in 2013. GigaOM released the conversation as a podcast this morning. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, OpenStack, DropBox, and more get a […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2012, 2013, acquisitions, adam lesser, amazon, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, david linthicum, dropbox, Enterprise Computing, GigaOM, GigaOM Pro, gigaompro, openstack, Podcast, predictions, rackspace, Review | 1 Response

One More Reason to Take That M&A Offer – Sponsor Turnover

One More Reason to Take That M&A Offer – Sponsor Turnover

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 19, 2012

In the last 2 weeks, I met with two other CEO/founders whose companies had been acquired in the past 12-18 months.  In some ways their experiences were different than mine.  One was a consumer internet company acquired by an entertainment company.  The other was a SaaS company, yes, but one that was basically pre-revenue. But […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquisitions, Entrepreneurship, liquidity event, m&a, mergers, startups

IBM's Worklight Acquisition: Few Thoughts

IBM’s Worklight Acquisition: Few Thoughts

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 2, 2012

Two days back IBM announced their plans to acquire Worklight, the Israel based mobile development platform, to beef up their enterprise mobile strategy. IBM realizes that in this era of BYOD/Consumerization of IT, they need to had a strong mobile strategy supporting various platforms. In fact, at the recent Lotusphere 2012 conference, IBM showcased their […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged acquisitions, briefs, ensw, enterprise software, IBM, m&a, mobile, Mobile web, mobile web apps

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Acquires Orchestra

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Acquires Orchestra

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 23, 2011

I am sure regular readers of this blog are convinced that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services. We are seeing this trend happening now with so much action on the PaaS front. Today Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage) reacted to the market trend and announced the acquisition of Orchestra, the Irish PHP PaaS company. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged acquisitions, briefs, engine yard, engineyard, m&a, orchestra, paas, paasfuture, PHP, php paas, rails | 2 Responses

Looking Back 2010: Key Cloud Acquisitions

Looking Back 2010: Key Cloud Acquisitions

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 31, 2010

This is the final post in the Looking Back 2010 Series and, also, for the year 2010. After looking at the three key cloud events in this year (thanks to James Urquhart for kicking up the discussion on Twitter), I want to do a post talking about some of the key acquisitions in the cloud […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2010, 3tera, acquisitions, boomi, CA, cast iron systems, cloud, cloud acquisitions, cloudkick, dell, heroku, IBM, lookingback2010, makara, nimsoft, rackspace, redhat, salesforce, salesforce.com

Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

By Mark Suster on April 12, 2010

So Twitter is buying and building Twitter clients.  I don’t find this surprising at all.  In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating.  I said in the following video that I thought Twitter would by Seesmic, the company that makes one of […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquisitions, business model, chirp, ecosystem, social media, Tech Market Analysis, twitter

Who Will Twitter Acquire With Their Fresh $100 Million?

Who Will Twitter Acquire With Their Fresh $100 Million?

By Guest Authors on September 28, 2009

Last week the NY Times reported that Twitter has raised about $100 million of new funding, making the company’s value to be $1 billion. Just to put things in perspective, they also provide an example: For context, that is almost double the market capitalization of Domino’s Pizza, which has 10,500 employees and had $1.4 billion […]

Posted in General | Tagged acquisitions, twitter, valuation, venture funding | 1 Response

21 Million Reasons For Mint To Sell

21 Million Reasons For Mint To Sell

By Chris Yeh on September 19, 2009

When I heard about Mint’s sale to Intuit for $170 million, I never imagined that it would be controversial. I posted my congratulations to the friends who made money in the deal, and moved on. It’s been a busy week, and I haven’t been keeping up with Twitter and RSS, so imagine my surprise to […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquisitions, Entrepreneurship, exit strategy, intuit, mint, mintuit, startups, vc economics, vc funding, venture capital | 2 Responses

What’s Wrong with Flipping a Startup for $170M?

What’s Wrong with Flipping a Startup for $170M?

By Zoli Erdos on September 18, 2009

Nothing, IMHO.  But there’s a new debate on whether the Mint / Intuit deal was a good deal, or selling short-sightedly. I’m with Eric @CloudAve and Sarah @ TechCrunch in their call to “move past this incrementalism and start thinking big” – they just use Mint as a trigger to a good thought process.  But […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged acquisitions, Entrepreneurship, exit strategy, intuit, mint, mintuit, startups, vc funding, venture capital | 1 Response

MinTuit: a Second Look. (You Will Be Assimilated).

MinTuit: a Second Look. (You Will Be Assimilated).

By Zoli Erdos on September 14, 2009

TechCrunch50 could not have asked for a better start:  they get to announce that personal finance startup Mint winner of the $50K grand prize @ TC50 two years ago just got acquired for $170M. Great exit for a startup – not so sure about concerned users.   But the big question today is why it made […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged acquisitions, aggregation, benchmarking, data mining, intuit, intumint, mergers, microsoft, Microsoft Money, mint, mintuit, money management, ms money, online banking, personal finance, pfm, quickbooks, quicken, saas, wesabe | 4 Responses

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