socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Media Temple''s customers include Sony, Nordstrom, The Wall Street Journal, Starbucks, IBM, Volkswagen, and many others. colocation acquisition merger godaddy hosting temple media mediatemple' According to GoDaddy, the two companies will continue to operate independently.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2017

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Lantern Credit said Korns previously has served at such companies as IBM, Tymshare Transaction Services, Xerox Imaging and Investment Science. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

Pikover is an angel investor, with dozens of local startup investments; he was also co-founder of Xylan (IPO, $2B acquisition) and Access 360 (acquisition by IBM). Bitvore said one of its first products, Bitvore for Munis, helps investment banks and hedge funds looking for an information advantage in municipal bond markets.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. cloudant venture capital merger acquisition exit cloud software nosql database' Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. in funding.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Los Angeles-based SOA Software , the developer of enterprise SOA software, announced today that it has tapped IBM vet Corey Scobie as its new Vice President Technology. Scobie was previously Chief Strategist for IBM's Appliance and Application Optimization businesses, and also has served at DataPower, before its acquisition by IBM.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2017

According to Cornerstone OnDemand, it had implemented a "reduction in sales headcount", and in particular "teams with the highest customer acquisition costs" as it looks to more aggressively drive operating margins and free cash flow. com, SAP, and IBM. It also named Jeff Lautenbach as President of Global Field Operations.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Grupo ACAO is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and carries products from IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, EMC and VMware. Ingra Micro said the acquisition will contribute more than $300M in annual revenues to the company. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. The company serves Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Ecuador.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Syncsort is based in Woodcliff, New Jersey, and offers up Apache Hadoop, Splunk, Apache Spark, and other analytics software for the IBM z Systems mainframe and other systems. Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Financial terms of the acquisition were not anounced by the companies. Syncsort was headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, and is over 40 years old, but has a significant number of Big Data products based on Apache Hadoop, Splunk, Apache Spark, and the cloud, in addition to software for the IBM z Systems mainframe platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Tags: entrepreneur startup merger acquisition business. No growth” or even slow-growth companies waiting for an angel may have a long wait. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Roberts is currently President and CEO of BlueWater Management Consulting , and was formerly General Manager and Vice President of Content Management at IBM, which acquired FileNet in 2006. Roberts headed up FileNet as Chairman and CEO at the time of its acquisition by IBM.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2010

PBC provides enterprise telecommunications services for telecom operators Telefonica, Telmex, and CTBC, in addition to offering Microsoft, IBM, and 3Com products. Tags: opengate capital brazil merger acquisition philips business communications international. OpenGate said it acquired PBC from global technology firm Philips.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2014

In 2005, Lenovo first burst onto the scene by acquiring IBM’s PC line, namely the brand recognition of the Thinkpad line. Last week, they announced the acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business for approximately $2.3 billion.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2009

SafeHarbor provides software used to service customer requests and reduce customer support costs, and counts IBM, American Airlines, T-Mobile, Sprint, and SunTrust as customers. Tags: shackleton equity partners private safeharbor merger acquisition software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

Don’t be the next Xerox who totally missed the personal computer market, even though they had the technology and the processes well before Apple, IBM, and others. Use outside investment and acquisition to expand your scope. They were successful with business computers and technology, but didn’t see the change.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Esri said that SpotOn provides interactive mapping software for IBM Cognos, IBM's business intelligence software. Redland-based Esri , the developer of geographical information software, said Thursday that it has acquired SpotOn Systems , a developer of business intelligence and interactive mapping software.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. This is not a new model, and it makes no sense,” says Narasin.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The myth that arose to explain why IBM selected Microsoft’s Operating System over Digital Research’s market leading software is that Mr. Kildall opted for a joy ride in his private plane the day the IBM executives visited his offices. In reality, Gary Kildall was present when IBM came knocking during July of 1980.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. We have invested in 13 companies out of our Fund 1 so far and are more bullish than ever on the amazing entrepreneurs we are meeting and the companies we are helping them build.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Also featuring Mr. Barker, who prior to joining Revolution Partners, was at IBM as a result of its $200 million acquisition of Trigo Technologies, the product information management company that he helped build to profitability, 150 employees and a $40+ million run-rate. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Customer acquisition cost. Signed contracts with big name customers, like IBM, AT&T, or Wal-Mart, is a strong indication of traction. If your average transaction size, number per customer, or margins have been turning up dramatically, it should mean you have gained real traction in the market.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

The bigger public players – Cisco, Check Point, HP, IBM, Symantec, and others – need to continually add to their arsenal of security solutions as the threat landscape continues to evolve. In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. Why is this happening?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. Technology.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2009

in 2004, and the acquisition of Snap by Overland in June of 2008. Kelly has also served at M&A and consulting firm Silicon Valley Management Partners, and was President of Maxtor's systems business, in addition to stints at Dell Computer, Diamond MultiMedia, Conner Peripherals, and IBM.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 9, 2012

But over the past 11 years, after a career at IBM and 15 Thinkpads later, even I switched from my Thinkpad to a Mac, from my Blackberry to an iPhone and soon enough, an iPad too. Considering we never had anyone even remotely interested in acquisition over the years, I’m not sure the company had a future regardless of its demise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. acquisitions business entrepreneur growth mergers organic growth' No growth” or even slow-growth companies waiting for an Angel may have a long wait.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Last year was quite a year for IPOs, largely influenced by the significant rise in the number of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) who went public, despite almost uniformly negative returns. In the last few decades, the paternal image of large multi-national company leaders like Thomas Watson at IBM and Henry Ford is gone.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Middle Market Investment Banking. Startups Made Simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Non-organic growth would include OEM relationships, finding strategic partners, “coopetition,” as well as acquisitions. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2009

Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Microsoft BizSpark (www.microsoft.com/bizspark. NeoHire (www.neohire.comk). Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Key Information Systems ([link].

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 18, 2012

As IBM goes flash with its acquisition of Texas Memory Systems and the recent public launch of Data Collective for Big Data entrepreneurs DNA was the least expected move for storage. A Harvard researcher says data can now be stored in human DNA devices with more capacity to store exploding quantities of digital data.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

They're acquisitive, have cashed up, and lots of them are now looking at repatriating money to the US. That's the Unilver acquisition of Dollar Shave, the GE acquisition of ServiceMax. That's the Unilver acquisition of Dollar Shave, the GE acquisition of ServiceMax. They are very acquisitive.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com). Technology. NeoHire (www.neohire.comk). Dedicated to our Clients.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Middle Market Investment Banking. Startups Made Simple.

Southern California 113

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. 2018 was a year of ups and downs for the business and technology community. Venture funding remained strong, but more money went to fewer (and later-stage) companies overall.

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