Using a sample of more than 111,000 patents following 301 high -
tech acquisitions from 1990 - 2000, they examined if the firms filed new patents, created breakthrough knowledge and retained engineers.
Not exact matches
Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money:
from the European
tech team that is jazzed about the
acquisition, to the U.S.
tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the
acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....
What I have learned
from many years of working with
tech - enabled growth companies; on both sides of mergers and
acquisitions; and angel, private equity and venture capital investments, is that accretion of IP value is the key element to supporting overall enterprise value — representing scalability in phases of rapid growth and supporting attractive multiples during the fundraising and exit phases.
From Intelsat's $ 13 billion deal for OneWeb to Cisco's $ 3.7 billion deal for AppDynamics, the firm's
tech, media, and telecom mergers and
acquisitions team had its busiest start to the year in terms of number of deals since 2000, announcing 18 deals in the first two months of the year valued at nearly $ 30 billion.
The deal would have been the biggest
tech acquisition ever, but Broadcom is not backing down
from its plan to buy the chipmaker.
«The focus
from the two
tech giants on «on demand» services or «online to offline», as they call it in the
tech world, is meant to help promote their online and mobile payment services,» Pacific Chiba Trust Head of Mergers &
Acquisitions Louis Hunter said in a statement.
Amid growing concerns over the impact of
tech giant Amazon's pending
acquisition of Whole Foods Market, the company lowered its expected IPO range to $ 10 to $ 11 a share on Wednesday, down
from the $ 15 to $ 17 range it had initially forecast.
On the heels of major exit announcements
from our portfolio companies ServiceMax (pending
acquisition by GE Digital) and TubeMogul (pending
acquisition by Adobe), we have more big news
from Trinity Family member and Real Estate
tech company VTS as they announce their merger with former competitor Hightower.
Support for the site came in the form of a $ 225,000 grant
from the Knight Foundation's
Tech for Engagement program and the proceeds
from the Sunlight Foundation's
acquisition of OpenCongress in October 2013.
As Van Campenhout tells GDI, although Agile Wings has operated in the dating industry for a number of years, last year's
acquisition was a statement of intent
from the
tech firm, and came about after huge demand
from its partners for a white label dating product.
In fact, numerous recent education guides —
from the Common Core State Standards to the ISTE Technology in Education Standards to the National Core Arts Standards — attest to how an arts - infused,
tech - savvy school culture maximizes student
acquisition of digital - age skills, such as problem - solving, creativity, collaboration, cultural understanding and research fluency, as well as educator communication and organizational efficiency.
We're a few months away
from a very large merger in which we're going to be inheriting more people, more budget, and so now is probably not the time for us to increase our spend until we know what we've bought in our $ 67 - billion
acquisition [Ed note: Dell acquired
tech behemoth EMC last fall].
Much like
tech startups, new law firms should plan to make online marketing a core part of their client
acquisition strategy, right
from the start.
In Latin America, outside of Brazil, a few IPOs
from Argentina, and some copycat models
from the US, the biggest
tech acquisitions have been in the $ 20M - $ 50M range — far less than their US, European, or Asian counterparts.
The unveiling itself was also new for Motorola, as it was part of Lenovo's annual
Tech World showcase; previous hardware unveilings had been separate, even well after the Chinese company's
acquisition of Motorola
from Google in 2014.
The industry has also seen HR
tech firms
from other areas of the workforce management software world moving into the background checking space through deals such as CareerBuilder's
acquisition of Aurico, a global provider of background screening and drug testing services.
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