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HP, Nokia sign on with anti-patent-troll service (from Corporate Dealmaker)

RPX Corp., the defensive patent aggregration service launched in San Francisco last November, has signed up another couple of blue-chip members: Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) and Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK). What is defensive patent aggregation? As RPX co-CEO John Amster explained in a June Q&A in The Deal, RPX buys patents...

Posted on July 16, 2009 9:45 AM

What to make of Big Tech's big bond sales amid credit crunch? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Sales of corporate bonds are off by nearly a third on the year, no surprise in the midst of a severe credit crunch. But a big exception, according to a Bloomberg article, is issuance by tech companies. Though they are having to pay up for the funds, tech companies are...

Posted on December 3, 2008 12:45 PM

Tech sector integration notes from all over (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Though emergency mergers of financial firms dominate the deal headlines, Thursday morning's mail brings news about two post-merger integration projections in the world of information technology -- one a potential combination, the other a work in progress.The potential combination would be a purchase of AOL LLC's Internet advertising business by...

Posted on October 9, 2008 9:59 AM

Deals by Dow, HP, Mars all call for integration by injection (from Corporate Dealmaker)

At one end of the integration spectrum is the consolidation approach. Recent example:  the proposed acquisition of Allied Waste Industries Inc. of Phoenix by Republic Services Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., which will produce a bigger waste management company based in Phoenix and operating under the Allied name. At the...

Posted on July 11, 2008 4:58 PM

Lawyers to HP, EDS customers: Check change-of-control provisions (from Corporate Dealmaker)

More insight into the complexities of this deal comes from the outsourcing lawyers at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, who just released a memo on the subject. Here's a sample: Pillsbury understands that EDS is cur­rently undertaking a review of its contracts' change of control provisions to plan for the...

Posted on May 15, 2008 4:26 PM

HP-EDS: Printers, PCs and outsourcing? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Hewlett-Packard Co. has yet to lay out exactly how it will achieve the reverse merger of its outsourcing business into Electronic Data Systems Corp. But others are working to identify the key issues -- and a piece in InformationWeek Wednesday does so quite well.One of the questions the piece raises...

Posted on May 15, 2008 8:38 AM