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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

Yahoo! dealmaking continues as Microsoft hovers (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Microsoft Corp.'s hostile $44.6 billion takeover play for Yahoo! Inc. hasn't dampened the Internet giant's appetite for innovative startups. In February, just days after Microsoft announced its intentions, Yahoo! closed a deal to buy Israel-based FoxyTunes, a Firefox plugin that allows users to control music players...

Posted on April 2, 2008 4:44 PM

From softwear to software (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Alex Lintner's path to his post as senior vice president, strategy and corporate development at Intuit Inc. was paved with a little serendipity, a lot of non-technology-related consulting work and a great deal of sexy lingerie. Before joining Intuit two years ago, Lintner was a vice president and director...

Posted on January 13, 2008 1:36 PM

All about deal tools (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Companies use modern information management tools to organize financial data, track supply-chain movement and compile customer relationship details. So why not use them for dealmaking? Even small transactions can require information flows among dozens of people in different locations; large ones multiply the challenge. Sellers need to make due...

Posted on April 15, 2007 10:17 AM

Separation anxiety (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Breaking out IP in a divestiture gets even more complex when multiple business units within the corporation use it.

Posted on August 15, 2006 12:59 PM

Helping to form the framework (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Collaborating in standards groups is expensive, time-consuming, frustrating and often worth it. Here's how one makes it work.

Posted on August 15, 2006 12:35 PM

Mozilla man (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Building software through an open-source community might result in a better product, but from a licensing standpoint it can be a nightmare. A single open-source application might contain millions of lines of code written by countless programmers worldwide. To help protect users of the application from copyright-infringement accusations, contributing...

Posted on April 15, 2006 6:01 PM

How open? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

In the software industry, the open-source movement and customer demands for interoperability are changing everything.

Posted on October 15, 2005 6:05 PM

Build, buy, partner; repeat (from Corporate Dealmaker)

At first, Steve Solazzo says, he was puzzled. He had a big job, running IBM Corp.'s multibillion-dollar Linux operations, which he launched in 2000. But IBM's top software executive, Steve Mills, had chosen him to lead the integration of soon-to-be-acquired Rational Software Corp. Any puzzlement quickly faded, though, in...

Posted on February 15, 2004 7:30 PM