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Brocade Buys Foundry for $3 Billion

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. is shelling out $3 billion to buy data equipment maker Foundry Networks Inc. The move is receiving generally positive reviews as a move that will not only strengthen Brocade's product offering but will also allow it to...

Posted on July 22, 2008 8:07 AM

America for Sale?

Tim Gray is reporting on the chatter that has Sprint as the target of a takeover - albeit a friendly takeover - at the hands of SK Telecom, South Korea's wireless giant. Yesterday, Leuven, Belgium-based InBev picked up Anheuser Busch for...

Posted on July 15, 2008 4:22 PM

Sangoma Acquires Paraxip

Sangoma Technologies has just announced that it will acquire Paraxip Technologies Inc. for $4.8 million, payable as $1.9 million in cash and 2.3 million Sangoma common shares. Paraxip develops IP connectivity software designed to empower the deployment of IP Telephony...

Posted on July 7, 2008 10:43 AM

Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $45B?

  I got stuck in traffic this morning, so I was already feeling a bit rushed when I logged in, but I didn’t expect to see this news pop up on my screen today. Microsoft Corp. has apparently made an...

Posted on February 1, 2008 7:36 AM

Rumours of Google and Skype... Oh My!

There’s goes Rich again, spreading rumours.   It’s rumours with a “u” because this particular speculation got its start in the UK, where Jemima Kiss — writing on The Guardian’s pda:thedigitalcontentblog — hypothesized about a Skype/Google marriage.   ...

Posted on November 21, 2007 7:45 AM

Noble Systems to Acquire Amcat

The consolidation in the tech space is clearly not limited to the VoIP arena. Contact center players are getting in on the fun as well. According to a Marketwire report, Noble Systems Corporatiion is set to announce that it...

Posted on November 7, 2007 4:30 PM

Covad Sold to Private Equity

The private equity trend keeps rolling on... Covad Communications Group Inc., announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Platinum Equity for $1.02 per share in cash. The company’s board has reportedly unanimously...

Posted on October 29, 2007 7:01 AM

Nokia Maps Out Future With NAVTEQ

Nokia and NAVTEQ have announced a definitive agreement whereby Nokia will pay $78 in cash for each share of NAVTEQ including outstanding options for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.1 billion (euro 5.7 billion).   According to a company...

Posted on October 1, 2007 10:27 AM

Digium Nabs Switchvox

Tom Keating reports on Digium’s acquisition of Switchvox and highlights Mark Spencer’s comments that Digium plans to take some of the proprietary SwitchVox code and offer it back out to the community.   I was on the call with Tom...

Posted on September 27, 2007 7:33 AM

GrandCentral to Google

Late yesterday, Google snapped up GrandCentral Communications, a start-up that lets users use a single phone number that forwards to all of their phones, essentially giving them one number for life.   The service lets users manage their existing phones...

Posted on July 3, 2007 7:05 AM