Tuesday, September 06, 2011
How CIOs drive M&A success Leading an acquisition is a significant career opportunity for CIOs, yet many fail to live up to the challenge. Here's the best way to succeed
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
AOL buys TechCrunch and 5min Media The acquisitions are meant to boost AOL's content offerings. The moves are in line with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's strategy of turning AOL into a massive provider of original content as a way to boost user engagement and advertising sales
Monday, September 06, 2010
Hurd joins Oracle as co-president The former HP president, who stepped down amid a sexual harassment scandal only weeks ago, will takeover from longtime Larry Ellison strongman Charles Phillips, who has resigned
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Macbooks, Red Bull, Herman Miller chairs for everyone Social technology start-up Syncapse is looking to fill roughly 60 positions in London, New York, Portland and Toronto. Why office culture is important to the 20-something CEO and job descriptions aren’t
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Hedge fund offers $2B for Novell Elliott Associates, which was part of the consortium that bought GM spinoff Delphi, makes an unsolicited, $5.75-a-share offer for the struggling former networking giant
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Round Table: 2009 in the rearview mirror, Pt. 3 In Part 3 of our end-of-year editorial round table discussion, IT World Canada staff ponder Cisco's agenda
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
What it takes to become 'the extended CIO' In an excerpt from their new book, a Gartner vice-president and a research scientist at MIT discuss the concept of senior IT executives who move beyond their traditional role in technology
Monday, December 29, 2008
Top 5 IT predictions that'll never happen By now, you're probably sick of all sorts of journalists telling you what to expect in 2009. Here's a sort of antidote 
Monday, October 27, 2008
IBM IOD- Big Blue lays out its 'Information Agenda' IBM hammers home the mantra for building a data management strategy backed by new IBM and Cognos tools, services and know-how
Monday, July 07, 2008
Greene out, Maritz in at VMware The founder and CEO of the wildly successful virtualization firm is gone, replaced by a Microsoft vet and cloud computing pioneer, and causing a huge drop in share prices
Thursday, May 08, 2008
DND employs integrated approach to equipment maintenance Canada's National Department of Defence (DND) has implemented an integrated equipment and engineering maintenance approach to their services and equipment acquisitions, according to Kevin Radford of the DND. Radford, director of materiel for policy and procedures at the DND, spoke to delegates at SAP's Sapphire Conference in Orlando, Florida, about why it was so urgent for the department to take an integrated approach.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Corel seeks outside expertise after unsolicited bid The Ottawa firm makes Genuity Capital Markets its financial advisor and begins a strategic review of its entire operation as Vector Capital waits in the wings. IDC Canada discusses its future
Monday, November 05, 2007
Vancouver wireless firm looks south for growth MetroBridge Networks hopes that through the acquitision of two other firms will keep its momentum strong. The co-founder speculates on its potential to be bought by a U.S. company
Monday, October 08, 2007
SAP to buy Business Objects for US$6.78 billion The company breaks from its traditional strategy of avoiding large company acquisitions by taking on a major player in the business intelligence market. What it means for Oracle/Hyperion 
Sunday, July 22, 2007
HP acquires Opsware for US$1.6 billion A company best known for products and services around provisioning, configuration and deployment will help HP assists customers with their data centre pain points
Thursday, June 21, 2007
HP takes on IBM in high-stakes software battle Successful at selling hardware, HP wants to make a bigger splash in the software arena, but with longtime rival IBM intending to do the same, the company faces a difficult battle
Thursday, May 10, 2007
BI firms welcome HP to data warehouse space HP will be entering the data warehouse space with Neoview, a data warehouse platform that integrates hardware, software, and services
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Timing is everything Due to the current global economic turnaround, mergers, acquisitions and divestments are on the increase. Enterprises are using MA&D to drive growth, reduce costs and acquire assets, such as new capabilities and brands. And despite the popular myth that MA&D destroys value, evidence shows that most deals are positive for all stakeholders. Success, it seems, rests on clarity of goals and a well-thought-through approach to integration.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Oracle to buy Hyperion for $3.7 billion Oracle Corp. has agreed to acquire business intelligence software vendor Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.7 billion in cash, it said on Thursday. 
Monday, December 11, 2006
Just you wait and see – IT predictions for 2007 As we gaze toward the vista of 2007 (pun intended) we find our e-mail inbox inundated with IT predictions for the new year from analysts, vendors and consultants. To those predictions we add our own prognostications. Here is our forecast for the top IT trends in the year ahead.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Qualcomm buys WLAN, Bluetooth technologies Qualcomm Inc. is making two acquisitions of Bluetooth and WLAN (wireless LAN) chip technologies, allowing it to further the integration of wireless networking capabilities in mobile phones. 
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Oracle Philippines counts on mergers for more products Oracle Corp. is looking at leveraging on its recent software acquisitions in order to bring a lot more products to the table for Philippine users. Oracle’s local subsidiary is seeing, in particular, a lucrative market in small and medium-sized companies. 
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Fresh look sees wide area as local Network managers concerned with the user experience face their biggest challenges over the wide area. LAN-like performance is the goal for users at home or branch offices, but many network managers have a hard time keeping application service levels up to par on their local networks, never mind across distributed offices supported by varying levels of connectivity.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Swisscom CEO quits as govt stalls expansion plans Swisscom AG has been forced to replace Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jens Alder after he quit over government opposition to his international expansion plans, the telecommunications operator said in a statement. Carsten Schloter, previously in charge of the carrier's mobile phone division, will replace Alder as Swisscom new CEO.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Adventures in acquisition The venture capital industry is technology’s canary in a coal mine. Keeping an eye on its health makes sense. I recently attended a presentation by Mark Heeson, president of the National Venture Capital Association. Heeson says reports that the canary is looking like the “ex-parrot” of Monty Python fame are way off the mark.