Posted on November 5, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Filed under: Careers | Divesting and Restructuring | Middle market | Movers & Shakers | People | Trends
Tagged: Don Dodge , job cuts , Johnson & Johnson , layoffs , Microsoft Corp. , Nokia Siemens

Corporate layoffs are churning this earnings season, with companies trying to cut costs while growing their core businesses. We've gathered a list of pink slippers from the past couple weeks. Of course, aggressively cutting costs is only one side of recent corporate strategy. Downsizing while acquiring has been a frequent...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 29, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Growth Strategy | Information Technology | Trends
Tagged: Jack Henry & Associates , Jack Prim , Pemco Technologies

Earlier Thursday, we highlighted an IT services M&A watch list that Jack Henry & Associates Inc. (NASDAQ:JKHY) made as a possible acquisition target. If it were to get acquired, a buyer would have to shell out a little more since the Monett, Mo.-based company just acquired Pemco Technologies, a subsidiary...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Deal International | Growth Strategy | Information Technology | Middle market | Sector Watch | Trends
Tagged: Amdocs , Cognizant , CSC , Dell , ExlService , Genpact , Hewitt Associates , Jack Henry , Sapient , WNS Global

Analysts are expecting more IT services deals in the wake of Dell Inc.'s (NASDAQ:DELL) $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems Corp. (NYSE:PER) and Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX) buying document and BPO company Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (NYSE:ACS) for $6.4 billion. Reuters gathered a list of the most likely to be acquired...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 27, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Best Practices | Corporate Strategy | Growth Strategy | Joint Ventures and Alliances | Middle market | Sector Watch | Trends
Tagged: Cisco Systems , Dell Inc. , General Atlantic , Hewlett-Packard , IBM , Ingram Micro , Juniper Networks

Tech titans are wielding deals to battle for market share. They have been acquiring and partnering, trying to figure out the right business strategy to win customers. The data center market would make a nice little case study. There is growing demand as server farms that run corporate back offices...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 21, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Best Practices | Corporate Strategy | Growth Strategy | Middle market | Sector Watch | Trends
Tagged: Equinix , IX Europe plc , Switch & Data

Ever since Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) announced its bold move into data centers in March, the deals keep coming. The latest: Equinix Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) agreed to buy Switch & Data Facilities Co. (NASDAQ:SDXC) for $689 million in a tax-free cash and stock deal, expanding the infrequent acquirer into to 16...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 20, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Growth Strategy | Sector Watch | Trends
Tagged: Cisco Systems , Dell Inc. , earnings , EMC Corp. , Joe Tucci , Patrick Gelsinger

EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC), easing through the integration of Data Domain Inc., reports third-quarter earnings on Thursday with a Webcast being held at 8:30 a.m. ET. Analyst takesLast week, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC analyst Doug Reid upgraded shares of the acquisitive data storage tech provider to "Overweight" from "Market Weight." He...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 13, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Growth Strategy | Information Technology | Sector Watch | Trends
Tagged: ACS , David Johnson , Dell , Michael Dell , Perot Systems , Ursula Burns , Xerox

When someone says "healthcare M&A", the first thing that comes to mind might be the current round of pharma and biotech deals, which   Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) kicked off in January with its $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE). But the sector is so huge -- and for many, still so...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Case Studies | Growth Strategy | Information Technology | Middle market | Outsourcing | Sector Watch | Trends
Tagged: Affiliated Computer Services , BearingPoint , JJWild , Original Solutions Ltd. , Perot Systems , QSS Group , Tellurian

The services roll-up continues. IT services company Perot Systems Corp. (NYSE:PER), in the midst of being acquired by Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) for $3.9 billion, is itself acquiring BearingPoint Management Consulting (Shanghai) Ltd, a management and technology consulting company with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. Financial terms were not disclosed.Established in...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 12, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Sector Watch | Trends
Tagged: carfilzomib , Nexavar , Oncology M&A , Onyx Pharmaceuticals , Proteolix

Oncology deals keep coming. A week and a half after Sanofi-Aventis SA (NYSE:SNY) acquired the rights to sell an experimental cancer treatment developed by Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. for up to $530 million, Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ONXX) said it's buying cancer drug developer Proteolix Inc. in a deal that could be...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 9, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Deal International | Growth Strategy | Middle market | Sector Watch | Trends
Tagged: Datacom Solutions , IBM , Infosys

Indian IT services giant Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:INFY) is looking to acquire companies with revenues of about $400 million, and as demand picks up, it is pursuing 12 to 15 outsourcing deals on the back of nine deals it sealed in the past two quarters.Infosys is known more for organic...  Continue reading

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