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Cisco: Tandberg offer is 'a very good price' (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Following weeks of speculation about how Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) might react to Tandberg ASA shareholders who are carping about the networking giant's $3 billion offer for the company, Cisco's strategy chief Ned Hooper came out with a blog post Monday with a bit more detail as to why...

Posted on November 2, 2009 4:14 PM

Avaya may partner, not buy, on video (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) has gotten plenty of attention for its Oct. 1 announcement that it will pay $3 billion to acquire Norwegian video gear maker Tandberg ASA. But as our The Deal Pipeline report noted (subscription required), Cisco wasn't the only buyer who had looked at Tandberg. Another was...

Posted on October 6, 2009 10:21 AM

Cisco execs and Norway: An important update (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Earlier on Monday we mused over the fact that Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) plans to move some of its execs to Norway once it closes on its $3 billion deal for Tandberg ASA, the Norwegian video gear company. No word yet on who might be going, but whoever they turn out...

Posted on October 5, 2009 5:05 PM

Which Cisco execs are moving to Norway? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is known for adapting its integration model to the deal at hand. Silicon Valley startups get absorbed; big, Georgia-based Scientific Atlanta, which Cisco bought for $6.9 billion in 2006, required a slower approach.Now, for its integration of Tandberg ASA, the Norwegian video gear company Cisco proposes...

Posted on October 5, 2009 1:23 PM

Ripple effects of Thursday tech deals (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Competition is so pervasive in the converging world of information technology that dealmakers there hardly mention it. They just live it, with the result that nearly every deal, whether partnership or acquisition, seems to have some second-order effects on other relationships elsewhere.Thursday's news offers two good examples. First is Apple...

Posted on October 1, 2009 1:03 PM