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Cisco to buy set-top box unit of China's DVN

Cisco kicks off November with a $44.5 million deal, following a very busy October.


A handful of new tech activist targets

A new investment newsletter presents a list of potential targets for activist shareholders, including one company that could be dented by Cisco's Tandberg deal.


Moody's upgrades tech hardware

Moody's foresees improving conditions for technology hardware, citing improved conditions in chip and PC markets.


M&A ahead in mobile, SaaS and financial tech

Tech M&A boutique Updata Advisors says conditions troughed in the first half and cited several sectors ripe for dealmaking.


Mike Volpi joins Index, talks about Joost

Former Cisco M&A chief Mike Volpi talks about his latest stint as CEO of online video startup Joost and his new job as a partner at Index Ventures, a lead backer of Joost.


Will buyers come gunning for Skype?

Google, Cisco or Microsoft could be logical buyers for the VoIP service, analyst says.


How to survive a meltdown

A new McKinsey study outlines the recession strategies of tech winners.


Is EMC really going to be acquired?

EMC Corp. shares shot up in Thursday morning trading on speculation that Cisco Systems Inc. might acquire the world's largest maker of corporate storage equipment. Although Reuters reported the story that sent shares up, the rumor actually dates back to May, when Virtualization.com, a technology blog, floated the idea of such a combination. ...


Soapbox: Consolidation and Convergence in the Tech Sector

Timothy S.H. Ome, a Managing Director at Trenwith Securities, LLC., examines investments and consolidation trends in the technology sector, while also highlighting some strategic deals within the past year. Perhaps the most quoted concept in the technology sector is that which was coined by Gordon Moore, founder of Intel, as "Moore's Law." Simply stated - technology doubles exponentially every two years. Although Moore's Law was originally applied to hardware, it has been repurposed for other sectors of technology as new markets are created to solve existing problems or disrupt legacy systems. ...


This date in deal history: Kellogg’s founder born

April 7, 1860: Will Keith Kellogg is born in Battle Creek, Mich. For 46 years, W.K. was known primarily as John Harvey Kellogg’s ne’er-do-well younger brother. John Harvey, after all, ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which attracted a wealthy clientele eager to pursue “healthy living.” W.K. performed all manner of task for his brother and one day stumbled upon a method for producing a dry breakfast food made of wheat flakes. But John Harvey forbade his brother from developing this invention, thus allowing a sanitarium patient—Charles William Post—to run with the idea and become a breakfast-food mogul. Finally, in 1906,...



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