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 […]
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Editor’s note: I knew we were speaking too soon. One more deal to add to the list: Time Warner to buy Quigo. Added to the bottom of the list, under ad networks.
According to The Jordan Edmiston Group Inc.’s October 2007 Client Briefing report, the number of deals through the first three quarters of […]
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“In April 2000, Cisco weighed in at $555.4 billion, Microsoft closed with a value of $541.6 billion. Microsoft was king of software and computing, whereas Cisco was king of networks and the Web’s infrastructure.”
That’s a quote from my first book Course To Success. When I wrote the book, both MSFT and CSCO had tumbled in […]
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This morning I read that Cisco was buying Tribe. It was odd, admittedly, but I chose not to write about it because I am no expert in networking - as in what Cisco does vis-a-vis routers, hubs and deflingers. But reading the blogosphere cry foul and run with Marc Andreessen’s quote that “The idea that […]
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You got to hand it to Cisco CEO and Chairman John Chambers. He recently came out and labeled video the “killer app.” When I was reading his comments, I thought: “man, I hate that word: ‘killer app.’”
Of course, like a major league hypocrito, I just penned a post on how Google can put the kybosh […]
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