Investopedia: Riverbed Pays Up For Its Next Shot At Growth

The ideal for every business (and investor) is to seamlessly transition from one growth opportunity to another, harvesting cash flow from older businesses and reinvesting it into new opportunities that can continue to expand the business. Not many companies can do this completely on their own, however, and must rely upon acquisitions to improve their growth prospects. That would appear to be the case with Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq:RVBD), as it has agreed to spend approximately $1 billion in cash and stock to expand into the fast-growing application performance management market.

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