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Monday, August 27, 2012
Investopedia: IBM Follows SAP And Oracle Deeper Into The Cloud
There's a cottage industry in connecting the dots of prior mergers and
acquisitions (M&A) transactions and figuring out who might be next.
When SAP (NYSE:SAP) paid $3.5 billion for SuccessFactors and Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) paid $1.9 billion for Taleo, it didn't take a leap of inspiration to connect the dots and posit that Kenexa (NYSE:KNXA) could be next to go or that IBM (NYSE:IBM)
was the likeliest buyer on the board. With Kenexa's stock showing a lot
of strength recently, Monday's announcement that IBM will acquire the
company in a $1.3 billion all-cash deal is not really the most surprising announcement of recent weeks.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Investopedia: Another Day, Another Deal For Oracle
If growth through acquisition is supposed to be bad (as some academic types suggest), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison very clearly doesn't care. Less than half a year after the $1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow, Oracle is at it again with the acquisition of cloud-based HR specialist Taleo (Nasdaq:TLEO).
The Deal
Taleo certainly cut to the chase in its PR announcement (titled "Oracle Buys Taleo"). The companies have reached an agreement on a deal that will see Oracle buy Taleo for $1.9 billion in cash. That values Taleo at $46 per share, or about an 18% premium to the prior day's close.
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The Deal
Taleo certainly cut to the chase in its PR announcement (titled "Oracle Buys Taleo"). The companies have reached an agreement on a deal that will see Oracle buy Taleo for $1.9 billion in cash. That values Taleo at $46 per share, or about an 18% premium to the prior day's close.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Investopedia: SAP Pays Up And Accelerates Its SaaS Development
One way or another, growth costs money. Large software companies, like Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and International Business Machine (NYSE: IBM), spend piles of money on internal software development, but the reality is that the big boys still often have to bring out their wallets to compliment or compensate their own efforts. To that end, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is paying quite a lot for human resource software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader, SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF), but it would seem the alternative was even less appealing. (To know more about technology industry, read: A Primer On Investing In The Tech Industry. )
The Deal
SAP announced over the weekend that it was acquiring SuccessFactors in an all-cash deal worth about $3.4 billion. SAP will pay SuccessFactors shareholders $40 a share, a 52% premium to the Dec. 2, 2011, close and near to the all-time high for the stock. SAP will initially pay for this deal with cash on hand and a loan.
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The Deal
SAP announced over the weekend that it was acquiring SuccessFactors in an all-cash deal worth about $3.4 billion. SAP will pay SuccessFactors shareholders $40 a share, a 52% premium to the Dec. 2, 2011, close and near to the all-time high for the stock. SAP will initially pay for this deal with cash on hand and a loan.
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