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Guidance Software buys CaseCentral for eDiscovery one-two punch

Guidance Software announced yesterday it was purchasing CaseCentral giving them both an on-premise and cloud eDiscovery solution with the stroke of a pen (on the purchase and sales agreement). Read more...

Infragistics buys SharePoint mobile tool company

Infragistics, a company that bills itself as a user interface development tool vendor, announced this week the purchase of Southlabs and with it, its mobile SharePoint application. As users grow Read more...

Symantec buys LiveOffice cloud storage vendor

This week Symantec announced it purchased cloud archiving vendor LiveOffice for $115 million. The purchase makes sense because LiveOffice was already a Symantec OEM partner and it meshes nicely with Read more...

Telligent buys Leverage Software

Telligent bought community software company Leverage earlier this week, and with it got an established customer base along with missing cloud and mobile pieces, which appear to be key to the deal. Read more...

eZ Systems buys behavior analysis dashboard odoscope

Last week, eZ Systems announced the purchase of odoscope, a behavioral sentiment dashboard eZ customers can now use to analyze visitor behavior and better target content. This follows on the heels of Read more...

Oracle buys enterprise search vendor Endeca

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) plucked enterprise search vendor Endeca off the market last week, grabbing another independent search player. HP (NYSE: HPQ) picked up Autonomy, a company that does a number of Read more...

Nuance buys virtual keyboard company Swype

All Things Digital reported last week that Nuance had purchased virtual keyboard company, Swype for $102.5 million. Swype is used on touchscreen phones to provide speedier texting than touch typing. Read more...

Rumor: Box.net turns down $500M purchase offer

A rumor was flying on Friday that Box.net had turned down a $500 million purchase offer from an unnamed company. Ashley Mayer, spokesperson for Box.net wrote in an email that Box was not commenting Read more...

IBM grabs another analytics company in i2

IBM (NYSE: IBM) bought another analytics company last week, purchasing i2, a British company that is based in Cambridge, the same town as Autonomy. Must be a good week for large American technology Read more...

Cisco buys collaboration software vendor, Versly

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) tried to beef up its Cisco Quad enterprise collaboration product this week by purchasing Versly, a small software vendor still in private beta. The Versly product, however, Read more...

Press Releases

Berkery Noyes Releases 2011 Pharma & Healthcare Information and Technology Industry Mergers & Acquisitions Report

NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkery Noyes, an independent middle market investment bank, today released its 2011 Full Year Mergers and Acquisitions trend report for the Pharma & Read more >>

M&A Activity Shakes up Mobile Device Semiconductor Market, But Qualcomm Still Holds 30% of the over $25 Billion Market, Sa

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 2011 marked a big year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the mobile device semiconductor market. From Intel’s acquisition of Infineon Technologies AG Wireless Read more >>

Berkery Noyes Releases 2011 Year End Online & Mobile Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Report

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkery Noyes, an independent middle market investment bank, today released its 2011 Full Year Mergers and Acquisitions Trend Report for the Online & Read more >>

Berkery Noyes Releases 2011 Year End Software Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Trend Report

NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkery Noyes, an independent middle market investment bank, today released its 2011 Full Year Mergers and Acquisitions Trend Report for the Software Industry. Read more >>

Wireless Connectivity ICs to Surpass $8 Billion in 2011 with Broadcom, Qualcomm, CSR, Texas Instruments, and Many Others S

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The total market for standards-based wireless connectivity ICs is expected to exceed 3.5 billion units per annum in 2011. “Broadcom leads the market with Qualcomm, CSR, and Read more >>