Forbes Column 2009: Tech M&A Heats Up

There’s been a lot of acquisition activity lately. Who’ll be scooped up next? Read more in Tech M&A Heats Up.

Cognos Off The Table

Bringing an end to the speculation on who would buy Cognos, IBM has announced that it will pay $5 Billion in cash to buy the Business Intelligence leader. Earlier, SAP bought Business Objects. Cognos is IBM’s 27th acquisition since 2006. Business Intelligence is a hot space right now, which we have been covering in a

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India, Inc.: Wake up!

What the Chinese are doing is doing leveraged buy-outs on big, fat, powerful American brands reeling under margin pressures, and applying what they do really well: low-cost manufacturing to shave the fat off, while at the same time gaining access to brand power and distribution channels. This leads me to wonder how long India, Inc. will remain asleep at the wheels?

Microsoft’s two should-be M&A considerations

Microsoft has stagnated, much to the chagrin of its investors. The powerful vision of the eighties and nineties – of putting a PC on every desktop – no longer seems like a big, hairy, audacious goal. Instead, they are looking for greener pastures – mobile handhelds, digital homes, internet telephony – so forth and so

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