I had written earlier about Navteq (Navteq: Bright Future If Managed well and Place and Location Services Growth Fuels Navteq). Well, this morning, Nokia is announcing that they are acquiring Navteq for $8.1 Billion in cash. Navteq’s stock had risen steadily recently upon acquisition speculation. Since I last wrote about Navteq on August 2, the
I just got off the phone with Eric Benhamou, with whom, as you know, I have been discussing 3Com and Palm recently. I said earlier, that 3Com is trying to take on Cisco with its Chinese JV H3C in my Online Video Beneficiaries series, and that Cisco is a fat company that deserves to be
Conclusion Gannett realizes that consumers are changing the way they access content every day, and advertisers are working hard to find the best ways to reach them. The Company is looking at enhancing its core assets and building digital businesses, designed to provide solutions for both consumers and advertisers. The building of the various digital
Vijay Nagarajan has done a number of pieces on Qualcomm over the last few weeks, and it is time to take a look at how the stock is doing. Here is the chart: For recap, here are Vijay’s pieces:
Acquisition Targets Gannett doesn’t have much of a presence in the Online Personals or Dating space. It could look at acquiring a site as a large portion of the newspaper personals have shifted from print to the Internet and Gannett should preserve its share of the pie. Gannett could consider acquiring sites like, OkCupid, Engage,
I have recently covered Cisco, 3Com, Alcatel, Juniper, Nortel, Polycom, and Extreme in a series of posts on Online Video Beneficiaries. Here is another one in the series, on Foundry. Foundry Networks, Inc.(NASDAQ: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and Web traffic management solutions. An increasing number
Web 3.0 Framework discussion Below is a quick overview of the Web 3.0 framework for the Gannett sites. We have not gone into the details of all the properties, but you can review the Web 3.0 section of this site for detailed discussions on each vertical category. This segment also includes an overview of the
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading data integration enterprise that serves over 2,850 companies worldwide for their end-to-end data integration needs. The various enterprise-wide data integration and data quality solutions that its products support encompass a vast range including data consolidation, data synchronization, data governance, and data warehousing. INFA’s data quality products also support