The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will be - fully complete because there are too many countries around the world and too many industries to report (it is highly possible that the Wall Street Journal or Financial Post, for example, has such a list… but it would be thick and unwieldy).
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Paid Content reports on a Globes Online (Israel’s Business Arena) that US and Israeli-based Quigo is looking to seize on investor demand for consumer web media companies, and I guess, the lack of new options. It’s been a few years since Google put IPOs back in vogue amongst consumer firms, but there have not really been many since.
Quigo joins LinkedIn and Facebook as likely candidates to file, either in 2007 for a 2008 float… or by next year. continue reading...