Mergers and Acquisitions Recap: Microsoft's Blockbuster Deal, Coca-Cola's Hot List - Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Mergers and Acquisitions Recap: Microsoft's Blockbuster Deal, Coca-Cola's Hot List
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
By Mark Lawson Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) makes a $300 million stake in Barnes & Noble's (NYSE:BKS) Nook and College operations, and shares of the latter pop. The move appears to resolve patent lawsuits between the firms, with Barnes & Noble likely giving ...

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Facebook's future shopping list - Sydney Morning Herald

Facebook's future shopping list
Sydney Morning Herald
Despite the fast-paced acquisitions, the social networking juggernaut does not generally do a lot of long-term planning for its mergers and acquisitions. "They are a fairly nimble company," said Paul Buchheit, an entrepreneur who created the first ...

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Tech M&A Activity Slows; Executives Optimistic for 2nd Half - Multichannel News

Tech M&A Activity Slows; Executives Optimistic for 2nd Half
Multichannel News
By Mike Farrell -- Multichannel News, 5/21/2012 12:01:00 AM Mergers & acquisitions activity in the technology sector slowed considerably in the past two quarters, but according to a recent survey, many technology executives believe deals will come back ...

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Facebook's Purchases May Hint at Its Future - New York Times

Facebook's Purchases May Hint at Its Future
New York Times
... charting a course for its future — and potentially sheds some light on what, and who, may be next on the company's shopping list. The social networking juggernaut does not generally do a lot of long-term planning for its mergers and acquisitions.

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NetApp Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha

NetApp Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
I'll now turn the call over to Ms. Shauna O'Boyle. Ms. O'Boyle, you may begin. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. With me on today's call are our CEO, Tom Georgens; and our CFO, Nick Noviello. This call is being webcast live and will ...

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Citrix Synergy Heavy on Cloud, Mobility - Virtualization Review (blog)

Citrix Synergy Heavy on Cloud, Mobility
Virtualization Review (blog)
Podio is designed to work with a growing list of services, including GoToMeeting, Citrix ShareFile, Evernote, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive and SugarSync, and according to Citrix, "Podio now supports all major cloud file and document sharing ...

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Living the high life - China Daily

Living the high life
China Daily
Sun says that HiSoft is looking for suitable merger and acquisition targets, be it in China or other countries. “In recent years, there have been more and more mergers and acquisitions cases in the outsourcing industry, and we are also considering ...

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