VC / M&A news from FierceCIO

HP is in talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corp for about $13 billion, setting the stage to make HP the world's second largest provider of technology services - after behemoth IBM.

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It sure feels like the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations have been going on forever but judging by the looks of it, it seems like there

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Google finalized a $3.1 million deal on Wednesday for DoubleClick, a New York company that places ads on web pages that targeted consumers are likely to use, says the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Rivals of Read more...

It wasn't even a business day when word began to spread that Yahoo had rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid. Yahoo didn't think that the $31 per share offer was nearly enough, according to several Read more...

The rumors were true: Microsoft has formally offered a bid of $44.6 billion for ailing web giant Read more...

If you keep your ear low to the ground, you might have heard some mumbling this week about a possible partnership being forged between AMD and IBM. According to JMP Securities analyst Krishna Read more...

Oracle wants to buy BEA for $6.7 Billion, but does BEA really want to sell at that price, just to be gobbled up by the third largest software company in the world? It's unclear, even though offering Read more...

In another major consolidation of the enterprise software industry, Germany's SAP took the opportunity this past weekend to close a deal to acquire Business Objects for $6.78 billion. The deal was Read more...

With vendors like Oracle and Microsoft making inroads into the massive $6.25 billion business performance and analytics software market, smaller vendors are doing all they can to remain competitive. Read more...