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Cisco Systems Inc. and India's Wipro Ltd. will jointly develop and deliver information technology service solutions to markets around the world, combining Cisco's networking solutions with Wipro's infrastructure and managed services portfolio. Wim Elfrink, chief globalization officer for Cisco, said the agreement could scale up to $1 billion in... Continue reading
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Clorox Co. will acquire Burt's Bees Inc. for $925 million in cash, including an additional $25 million payment for anticipated tax benefits. Burt's Bees was acquired by AEA Investors LLC in 2003 for about $180 million. Roxanne Quimby, a founder, owns 20% of the company. The target, a leading... Continue reading
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In-game ad network IGA Worldwide Inc. is partnering with the NBC Universal Digital Media Advertising Sales team. They will sell a portion of IGA's premium in-game advertising inventory, as well as create customized packages for marketing clients on the IGA network. While the "Super Mario Bros." are still buying... Continue reading
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Over the next seven years, Bharti Wal-Mart Pvt. Ltd. plans to open 10 to 15 "cash-and-carry" stores in India. One of those stores would occupy about 50,000 to 100,000 square feet. According to a Dow Jones & Co. report citing high rental costs in India, four to five of... Continue reading
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Automobile maker Chrysler LLC named L. John Cataldo (right) as vice president of business development and mergers and acquisitions, handling all major business development activities globally, including alliances, partnerships, joint ventures and multiregion, product-related programs. Cataldo previously spent more than a decade with General Electric Co., most recently as... Continue reading
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Probably no major company has made JVs as integral a part of its strategy as Dow Chemical Co., as Corporate Dealmaker showed in a 2006 cover story. The soaring cost of hydrocarbon feedstocks has led Dow to deals like the one that created MEGlobal, a 50-50 JV with Petrochemical Industries... Continue reading
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David Ehrlich, a partner at New York IP law firm Fross Zelnick Lehrman and Zissu PC, has written a report called "Trademark Warranties in M&A Transactions." It's his take on how some deals go wrong because a corporation's IP is unfairly valued — and in some cases, worthless. "If... Continue reading
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Russia's Gazprom and Norway's StatoilHydro ASA signed an agreement regarding Phase 1 of development for the Shtokman gas and condensate field, located near the Barents Sea. StatoilHydro will receive a 24% stake in a special purpose company established for designing, financing, constructing and operating the facilities provided for Phase... Continue reading
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We just had a visit from Glenn Yago, director of capital studies at the Milken Institute, who dropped by to talk about his new book. The title is "Global Edge," and the theme is something called the opacity index — a framework that Yago and co-author Joel Kurtzman have created... Continue reading
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Google Inc. has been embracing mainstream media. Since May, their online platform Google TV Ads has been operational; it's used for buying, selling, measuring and delivering television ads. Now the search giant is teaming up with New York's Nielsen Co., establishing a multiyear, strategic relationship. They will use Nielsen's... Continue reading
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- Dow Chemical merger? Nope. Think joint venture [Posted on October 26, 2007 at 11:35 AM]
- Trademark warranties in M&A deals [Posted on October 25, 2007 at 4:26 PM]
- Gazprom chooses partner in $30B gas project [Posted on October 25, 2007 at 1:57 PM]
- Globalization with guardrails [Posted on October 24, 2007 at 4:53 PM]
- Google marches on; corp dev chief marches into VC [Posted on October 24, 2007 at 2:14 PM]
- Forecast: More South Korean IPOs with international tranches [Posted on October 24, 2007 at 12:57 PM]
- Nokia Siemens partners with Deutsche Telekom [Posted on October 23, 2007 at 2:11 PM]
- Cisco acquires Navini for $330M [Posted on October 23, 2007 at 9:45 AM]
- ArcelorMittal in $500M Turkish JV [Posted on October 22, 2007 at 4:53 PM]
- ATP Oil & Gas gets new VP of acquisitions [Posted on October 22, 2007 at 2:26 PM]
- Webcast: intellectual property issues in emerging markets [Posted on October 19, 2007 at 3:17 PM]
- Microsoft CEO Balmer talks acquisition strategy @ Web 2.0 Summit [Posted on October 19, 2007 at 11:09 AM]
- Google soars on ad sales, DoubleClick pending [Posted on October 19, 2007 at 10:25 AM]
- Sony sells unit to Toshiba, creates joint ventures [Posted on October 18, 2007 at 10:19 AM]
- Scott Davis to take helm at UPS [Posted on October 17, 2007 at 4:14 PM]
- Air France-Delta joint venture worth up to $8 billion [Posted on October 17, 2007 at 10:18 AM]
- E&Y study: CDO's and the emerging markets [Posted on October 16, 2007 at 2:53 PM]
- Deloitte & Touche webcast tackles M&A pitfalls [Posted on October 16, 2007 at 12:19 PM]
- A job like no other [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 8:00 PM]
- Genzyme is hungry [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:53 PM]
- Deeper thinking on intangibles [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:49 PM]
- A JV done right [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:47 PM]
- Corporate Venture Capital: Financial Services [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:42 PM]
- Connections: Sept.-Oct. 2007 [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:35 PM]
- Now boarding, the powder river express [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:30 PM]
- Timing matters, not size [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:24 PM]
- Letter from the editor [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:21 PM]
- The 17-year itch [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 2:44 PM]
- Strategic bolt-ons take center stage [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 2:07 PM]
- $390M Hand Held deal spotlights Honeywell's deal-sourcing savvy [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 10:39 AM]
- A shout-out to PE, condolence-lite [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 9:23 AM]
- What's a reverse sponsored spinoff? [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 9:18 AM]
- Defending against defections [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 9:11 AM]
- The appeal of patent pools [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 9:05 AM]
- How Siemens sees China deals [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 8:57 AM]
- Into harm's way [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 8:46 AM]
- When compliance is a key concern [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 8:39 AM]
- Speed and control [Posted on October 15, 2007 at 8:18 AM]
- Washington Post taking the right Course [Posted on October 12, 2007 at 2:19 PM]
- InPhonic hires Lazard for help in strategy [Posted on October 11, 2007 at 4:28 PM]
- Blaylock ladder-climbing at Walgreens [Posted on October 11, 2007 at 1:14 PM]
- E&Y: PE-backed firms topped public ones in '06 [Posted on October 10, 2007 at 4:58 PM]
- Makers of Miller Lite and Coors Light combine in U.S. [Posted on October 9, 2007 at 9:32 AM]
- Sprint Nextel in the headlines, Forsee steps down [Posted on October 8, 2007 at 5:21 PM]
- Siemens-Nokia JV struggling [Posted on October 8, 2007 at 1:23 PM]
- SanDisk grabs dealmaker [Posted on October 5, 2007 at 2:28 PM]
- Peter Allen: Want quality outsourcing? Learn to define it [Posted on October 5, 2007 at 11:07 AM]
- Halliburton, EDS, Flowserve dealmakers compare notes [Posted on October 4, 2007 at 4:31 PM]
- Sony creates new JV, gets old one reapproved [Posted on October 4, 2007 at 4:09 PM]
- Google seeks Chinese partners [Posted on October 4, 2007 at 10:21 AM]
- Key takeaways from Corporate Dealmaker Forum [Posted on October 3, 2007 at 2:21 PM]
- CD Forum: First in line [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 4:03 PM]
- CD Forum: High-level meetings in China [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 3:54 PM]
- CD Forum: Looking beyond i-bankers in emerging markets [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 3:21 PM]
- CD Forum: The strategic-PE seesaw [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 3:12 PM]
- Corp Dev Careers 360: Let’s talk money [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 1:18 PM]
- Corporate Dealmaker Forum: Bruner serves up "Deals from Hell" [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 11:35 AM]
- CD Forum: A new game for public companies [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 9:51 AM]
- CD Forum: Silver Lake's Bingle: Megadeals are here to stay [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 9:33 AM]
- CD Forum: Where is the deal market? [Posted on October 2, 2007 at 9:13 AM]
- Corporate Dealmaker advisers featured at Forum [Posted on October 1, 2007 at 4:58 PM]
- U.K. chemicals company Ineos: Busy dealmaker [Posted on October 1, 2007 at 1:07 PM]
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