DEALS: Autonomy buys Verity for $500M

DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

Autonomy

Verity

Autonomy buys Verity for $500M

Autonomy boosts its US presence in enterprise searching.

IBM

Google

Google search integrated with WebSphere

Easier for IBM to strike a deal than to re-code the enterprise search technology.

Level 3

Cogent

Resolve traffic peering disagreement

Disagreement had cut off some users from some Web sites, solved by boring contract issues.

Level 3

WilTel

Level 3 buys WilTel for $680M

Level 3 gets wholesale services and more dark fibre networks.

FCC

Verizon/MCI, SBC/AT&T

FCC approves the big mergers

So now four phone companies have become two...

Microsoft

Media-streams.com

Microsoft buys Media-streams.com for an undisclosed price

Microsoft gets some business VoIP tools.

MessageLabs

Omnipod

MessageLabs buys MessageLabs for an undisclosed price

MessageLabs gets instant-messaging products.

Microsoft

FolderShare

Microsoft buys FolderShare for an undisclosed price

Microsoft gets P2P technology.

IBM

iPhrase Technologies

IBM buys iPhrase Technologies for an undisclosed price

IBM gets search technology and enterprise content management tools.