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.
03 Oct 2013
Accenture Buys Procurian for $375 Million
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) announced today it will acquire Procurian, a leading provider of procurement outsourcing services, for $375 million in cash. Although additional financial...
24 Sep 2013
Sverica International Announces Sale of Pivot Data Centres to Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI) announced yesterday that it is acquiring Pivot Data Centres from private equity investment firm Sverica for CAD 155 Million. Pivot operates...
23 Sep 2013
BlackBerry Agrees to Tenative Go-Private Deal
BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) announced today that it has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with a consortium of investors led by Fairfax Financial (FFH: CN)...
11 Sep 2013
SYNNEX Acquires IBM’s Customer Care BPO Services Business
SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE:SNX) announced yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire IBM's (NYSE:IBM) $1.2 billion+ worldwide customer care business process...
03 Sep 2013
Microsoft Acquires Nokia’s Smartphone and Cellular Handset Division
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement to acquire the smartphone and cellular handset business of Nokia Corporation (NASDAQ:NOK)...
29 Aug 2013
Baring Private Equity Partners Asia to Purchase Controlling Stake in Hexaware Technologies
Baring Private Equity Asia announced on August 23 that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 41.9% stake in Hexaware Technologies Limited (BSE:532129)...
02 Aug 2013
FusionStorm and Synoptek Form Alliance to Deliver Managed Services
San Francisco-based FusionStorm, an award-winning IT solution provider with national U.S. coverage and global distribution capabilities, has entered into a strategic alliance with Synoptek, a...
19 Jun 2013
EarthLink to Acquire CenterBeam for $22 Million
Atlanta-based EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ:ELNK) announced an agreement to acquire CenterBeam, Inc., a privately held IT Services provider, for $22 million. The acquisition...
04 Jun 2013
Salesforce.com to acquire ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion
Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) yesterday signed a definitive agreement to acquire ExactTarget, Inc. (NYSE:ET), a provider of marketing software services, for $2.5 billion in...