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Dude, You're Getting Perot Systems
David Johnson, the mergers-and-acquisitions specialist Dell hired away from IBM (IBM) earlier this year, has clearly been busy these past few months. This morning the PC maker announced plans to buy...
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Another Media Reporter Packs His Bags: Timesman Arango Headed to Iraq
Doesn’t anyone want to cover the media beat anymore? First, BusinessWeek’s super-sourced Jon Fine departs for a six-month globe-hopping sabbatical. Now the New York Times’s (NYT) Tim Arango is leaving...
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Fighting Words! Time Warner Says Comcast/NBCU as Dumb as…Time Warner/AOL.
Just in case anyone thought Time Warner had any lingering interest in NBC Universal, this ought to put it to rest: Time Warner (TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes just compared the proposed Comcast/NBCU deal with...
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Fiorina's First Act as Senator: Merge California and Nevada
“I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation. I don’t think Barack Obama could run a major corporation. I don’t think Joe Biden could, either. But it is not the same as being the president...
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Google Loves Apple's Quattro Deal
Google took time from its superphone frenzy yesterday to applaud something a competitor did: The search giant lead a public cheer for Apple (AAPL), which just bought mobile ad network Quattro. Google’s...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: "I Have a Special Spot for Apple in My Heart"
A first peek at Google’s Q4 earnings report: Revenue in line and a nice earnings bump. The search giant reported revenue of $4.95 billion and earnings of $6.79 per share. The Street was looking for...
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Latest Dell Acquisition: Not Palm
Dell is certainly getting its money’s worth from David Johnson, the mergers and acquisitions specialist it hired away from IBM (IBM) in 2009. Last fall, the PC maker announced plans to buy information...
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News Corp. Digital Exec Jeremy Philips Heads for the Exit
More change at News Corp.’s top ranks: Jeremy Philips, one of Rupert Murdoch’s top advisers, is heading out the door. I’m told that Philips has a new job lined up and that he informed Murdoch of his...
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The FCC Votes on Net Neutrality Tomorrow; the Internet Waits
The battle over net neutrality–a sweeping, wonkish policy debate concerning the government’s role in telling broadband Internet service providers how they must operate their networks–is coming to a...
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U.S. Approves Comcast’s Acquisition of NBC U, but With Conditions
The Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice have finally confirmed what most have expected for some time–that they are approving the the proposed acquisition by the cable...
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ATT's President on Why T-Mobile Deal Should Pass Muster and Won't be a...
AT&T President Ralph De La Vega says that the company’s $39 billion plan to buy T-Mobile may be a shocker, but makes all the sense in the world. In a brief interview on Sunday, De La Vega, also CEO...
View ArticleT-Mobile's Memo to Staff on the ATT Deal
T-Mobile employees were no doubt as shocked as everyone else to learn on Sunday of the plans to sell the company to AT&T for $39 billion. Here’s the memo to staff from T-Mobile CEO Phillip Humm...
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AT&T Customers File Arbitration Cases Seeking to Block T-Mobile Merger
A group of lawyers has filed arbitration cases on behalf of 11 AT&T customers in hope of blocking the company’s planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA. The New York-based firm of Bursor...
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Weekend Update: Franken Also Against AT&T/T-Mobile Deal
Minnesota Democratic Senator Al Franken is the latest politician calling on U.S. regulators to block AT&T’s planned $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile. In a letter to the Federal Communications...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable Nears Insight Deal
Time Warner Cable Inc. is nearing a deal to buy Insight Communications Inc., the cable operator controlled by private-equity firm Carlyle Group, for about $3 billion including debt, people familiar...
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What Would T-Mobile Do With $3 Billion? We May Be About to Find Out.
What would T-Mobile do with three or four billion dollars? It’s a realistic question, because that’s the approximate amount it stands to gain when its proposed merger with AT&T fails, as it appears...
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Britain's First Software Billionaire Now Reports to HP CEO Meg Whitman
Hewlett-Packard just announced that it had closed its acquisition of the British software firm Autonomy. This is the company that HP decided to acquire under previous CEO Léo Apotheker on Aug. 18 for...
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IBM Signals a New Round of Acquisitions
Computing giant IBM is just signaled that its about to go shopping. In an interview with Bloomberg, Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Software and Systems, who you may remember...
View ArticleWell, That Was Fast: IBM Snags Q1 Labs, Forms Security Unit
Making good on signals it floated that it might begin another acquisitive streak, IBM today said it will acquire Q1 Labs, a Massachusetts-based security firm that specializes in using analytics to...
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Akamai Confirms the Rumors, Nabs Cotendo for $268 Million
Another Israeli tech start-up has wound up in the hands of a U.S. company. Earlier this week, Apple appeared to have acquired the Israeli chip start-up Anobit. This time the target is Cotendo, a...
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