Otra (fuerte) adquisición de una startup en la nube

CSC just acquired cloud startup ServiceMesh CSC just acquired cloud management startup ServiceMesh for an unspecified sum. ServiceMesh is a Santa Monica-based startup that aims to give large enterprises a bit more control over the cloud. The company raised $15 million in venture capital from Ignition Partners in 2011 to compete with giants like IBM and HP. It was founded in 2009. CSC has not revealed the amount it paid for ServiceMesh, although we hear from several sources familiar with the matter that it’s in the $325 million range. The press release announcing the acquisition is filled with someincomprehensible jargon. Simply put, the buy-up will help an IT infrastructure giant like CSC work with clients...

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¿Google engulle y elude la ley Sherman?

How Google dodged anti-trust law to buy Waze By Tim Fernholz @timfernholz Is this social map a Google competitor? AP Photo/Virginia Mayo When Google, king of the mobile maps, shelled out $1 billion to buy Israeli social mapping company Waze, the first question for many was: Where’s the anti-trust ruling? After all, Google is a leading digital maps provider, and Waze was one of the few innovators actually catching up with fellow digital cartographers Nokia, Apple and Microsoft. An American consumer watchdog wrote (pdf) to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) noting that the acquisition would “remove the most viable competitor to Google Maps in the mobile space.” The watchdog quoted the company’s...

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Stratays compra a su competidor

Stratasys just acquired MakerBot, the one 3D printing firm that could have disrupted it By Christopher Mims @mims Turns out that giving people the ability to 3D print random tchotchkes is worth about $600 million. You can’t 3D print money, but Stratasys just did the next best thing in buying MakerBot, the one company with the potential to disrupt Stratasys’s 3D-printing business. The deal will be transacted entirely in Stratasys stock, and the initial acquisition price is 4.76 million shares (worth $403 million today). Depending on MakerBot’s performance, an additional 2.38 million shares could be exchanged as part of the acquisition, yielding a total acquisition value of $604 million. Stratasys is up 3.3% in after-hours...

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Microsoft hace pie en Barnes & Noble

Microsoft to Take Stake in Nook Unit of Barnes & Noble BY MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED Mike Spencer/Wilmington Star News, via Associated PressBarnes & Noble bookstores prominently feature displays of Nook e-readers. Microsoft announced on Monday that it would invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook division for a 17.6 percent stake. The deal values the e-reader business at $1.7 billion. The move by Microsoft will help bolster the standing of Barnes & Noble’s fastest-growing unit. The bookstore giant had said earlier this year that it was exploring strategic options for the business, including a potential divestiture or strategic partnership. The company has wagered heavily on...

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