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IBM CFO on tech deals: Valuations coming in line (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Wednsday IBM Corp. CFO Mark Loughridge told Reuters that Big Blue likes the look of the  current acquisition landscape. "If you look at the first half of last year, valuations were pretty stiff," he said. "Valuations are coming more in line. We think it's an environment with solid opportunities."Comments on...

Posted on April 17, 2008 1:04 PM

Communicating the deal (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Corporate Dealmaker's online readers may be especially interested in the cover story for The Deal newsweekly's March 17 issue. It's called "Communicating the deal." This is an exploration of best practices in explaining how and why two companies should combine, to all the different constituencies affected...

Posted on March 17, 2008 4:17 PM

IBM dealmaker explains how smaller deals add up (from Corporate Dealmaker)

When IBM Corp. chairman Sam Palmisano reiterated Thursday that IBM isn't interested in megadeals like the one Microsoft Corp. wants to do with Yahoo! Inc., his remarks were duly noted. See, for example, this post on our sister blog Dealscape. Noted as well was IBM's strategy of buying lots of...

Posted on March 7, 2008 10:58 AM

Business intelligence software deals: Now comes the race to integrate (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Last year saw three big deals by the major players in enterprise software, as each sought to bring its customers new capabilities in business intelligence. Also called business analytics, business intelligence software enables...

Posted on February 19, 2008 1:28 PM