Spotlight
Spotlight
An archive of past spotlight issues.
The martinwolf team tracks noteworthy mergers and acquisitions, and offers
commentary on issues that impact our industry.
11 Mar 2014
Blackstone to Acquire Accuvant
Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) today entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Accuvant from current investor Sverica International. Blacstone, which is the world's...
23 Jan 2014
Lenovo to Acquire IBM’s x86 Server Business
Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK:992) announced that they entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IBM's x86 server business for approximately $2 billion in cash...
21 Jan 2014
Best Buy Sells mindSHIFT to Ricoh Company
Ricoh Company, Ltd. (TSE:7752), an office supply and digital imaging company based in Tokyo, announced today that it had entered into an agreement to acquire...
06 Jan 2014
Verint Systems Acquires KANA Software for $514 Million
Verint Systems (NASDAQ:VRNT), a data-analysis and security software maker, announced today that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire KANA Software, a customer...
06 Jan 2014
martinwolf Annual Letter
According to disruptive innovation guru Clayton Christensen, established companies have a hard time inventing new business models when they need to. As a result, game-changing...
20 Dec 2013
Oracle to Acquire Cloud Marketing Provider Responsys, Inc.
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) announced this morning that it was acquiring Responsys, Inc for approximately $1.4 billion.The acquisition price, $27 per share, is a 38% premium...
13 Nov 2013
IBM Acquires Mobile Cloud Vendor Fiberlink
IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire mobile management and security company Fiberlink Communications. Financial terms of...
31 Oct 2013
PwC to Acquire Booz & Company To Expand Consulting Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced yesterday that it will buy Booz & Company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. PwC, based in New York, currently...
28 Oct 2013
NTT Communications Acquires Two Cloud Computing Firms for $880 Million
NTT Communications Corporation announced today that it will acquire two U.S.-based cloud computing firms in separate transactions totaling approximately $880 million (85.5 billion yen)..