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eBay earnings preview (from Corporate Dealmaker)

EBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY), which plans to lay off several dozen people, will report third-quarter earnings on Wednesday with the Webcast earnings call scheduled for 2:00 p.m. PT. Analysts are projecting a sliver of growth instead of declining revenue, which eBay has faced for a year. They project earnings of 37...

Posted on October 19, 2009 8:27 AM

Skype founders sue eBay, sale in danger (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Tech M&A may be resurgent, but that doesn't make doing deals any easier. Take eBay Inc.'s (NASDAQ:EBAY) sale of 65% of Skype for instance. Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have sued eBay and the investor group paying about $2 billion for the VoiP company over an IP...

Posted on September 17, 2009 8:38 AM

Cisco's Giancarlo on his move into PE (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Until recently, Charles Giancarlo was evp and chief development officer at Cisco Systems Inc, and heir apparent to Cisco CEO John Chambers. Now he's a managing director at Silver Lake, the tech-focused private equity firm that made news last week when it announced that the California Public Employees' Retirement...

Posted on January 14, 2008 10:59 AM

The PE factor (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Kenneth Meyers is vice president of M&A for Siemens Corp., the New York-based holding company for the 11 U.S. divisions of Siemens AG. And despite a bribery scandal that has toppled Siemens' two top leaders in Germany, he's getting the job done. "Nobody is concerned about whether Siemens will...

Posted on June 15, 2007 10:18 AM

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (from Corporate Dealmaker)

How Royal Philips got a surprisingly rich price for its semiconductor unit from a private equity consortium.

Posted on December 15, 2006 8:54 PM

Cris Conde on why Sungard is going private (from Corporate Dealmaker)

SunGard Data Systems Inc.'s CEO Cristobal Conde hopes to gain the freedom to do business "faster and better" as SunGard transitions from a publicly traded company focused on quarterly earnings to a private one with a longer-term horizon. The question is: Will SunGard's prospective new owners - a consortium...

Posted on June 15, 2005 3:56 PM