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Royal Mail acquires third party solutions developer StoreFeeder - 0 views

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    In Great Britain, Royal Mail is a leading provider of shipping solutions for businesses and consumers. In recent years, the explosion of ecommerce across Europe has heightened the demand for flexible, mobile-based shipping solutions. One app Royal Mail has rolled out with some success is Click and Drop, which allows ecommerce users to print labels for goods sold on eBay and other sites.
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Announcing an M&A deal tactfully - 0 views

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    Company mergers and acquisitions are an important event for both parties. In addition to changing staff size, members and roles and building the new company's brand, business acquisitions often receive publicity - perhaps more attention than a company would normally get.
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Announcing an M&A deal tactfully - 0 views

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    Company mergers and acquisitions are an important event for both parties. In addition to changing staff size, members and roles and building the new company's brand, business acquisitions often receive publicity - perhaps more attention than a company would normally get.
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Facebook acquires online shopping search engine The Find - 0 views

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    "Key members of our team are joining the company and will be working hard to integrate our technology to make the ads you see on Facebook every day better and more relevant to you," The Find said in a statement. "Unfortunately, this means we will be taking our search engine offline in the next few weeks."
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For acquisition pricing, value is in the eye of the beholder - 0 views

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    "Value is in the eye of the beholder," explains Carolyn Brown in a blog post for Inc. Magazine. "Generally speaking, market value is one indicator. Other price factors are capitalization of earnings, discounted cash flow, and net return of assets or equity.
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Expedia acquires HomeAway for $3.9 billion - 0 views

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    This week, popular booking site Expedia announced that it will acquire HomeAway, the publicly traded vacation rental service, for $3.9 billion. HomeAway is often described as a competitor to Airbnb and other discount lodging sites with listings by homeowners. However, several other companies and sites fall under the HomeAway umbrella.
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Shell and BG going forward with large merger - 0 views

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    Shell and BG Group are going forward with their planned merger after they received approval from a number of world regulators in recent weeks. The merger of the two energy companies will be the largest since Exxon and Mobil joined forces in the 1990s.
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The Dell/EMC merger hits rocky waters - 0 views

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    The largest tech industry merger ever, valued at $67 billion, has hit a new snag that might affect the outlook of this costly deal. Computer giant Dell is seeking to buy the computer storage provider EMC, yet Dell does not have the revenue to do so.
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Costly mergers from 2015 - 0 views

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    The Pfizer-Allegran is one of the most recent mergers and the most expensive with a price tag of $160 billion. To put this figure into perspective, Zacks Investment Research compared this deal with the GDP statistics of many countries. Shockingly, countries such as Serbia, Uruguay, Morocco and Angola do not have GDP numbers exceeding the price of the Pfizer-Allegran deal.
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Now is the time for mergers and acquisitions - 0 views

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    Many tech industry companies are beginning to get antsy. This feeling stems from two recent major mergers that were announced just in the past few weeks. The first involves two competing semiconductor companies, Western Digital and SanDisk, where the latter company was acquired in a $19 billion merger.
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Western Digital acquires SanDisk for $19 billion - 0 views

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    "The acquisition brings together two powerhouses in the data storage space," writes USA Today. "SanDisk was founded in 1988 originally under the name SunDisk. Seven years later, the company went public, trading on the Nasdaq exchange at $10 a share. The company is best known for its line of memory cards and USB flash drives used for storage."
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HelloGiggles says "Hello, merger" - 0 views

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    "As of today, HelloGiggles will be part of Time Inc., the same company that brings you People, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle and a ton of other magazines and media you know and love. By partnering with Time Inc., we hope to promote the work of our amazing contributors on an even bigger platform, to showcase young talent and reach more readers than ever, and to expand the HG community in cool, new, exciting ways."
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS CAPABILITY - 0 views

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    Mergertech is an Mergers and acquisitions and Technology investment banking service provider which acts as an trusted M&A advisor and are fully focused on technology and software sectors to help the market and sell Information Technology (IT) and Software companies.
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS CAPABILITY - 0 views

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    Mergertech is an Mergers and acquisitions and Technology investment banking service provider which acts as an trusted M&A advisor and are fully focused on technology and software sectors to help the market and sell Information Technology (IT) and Software companies.
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AOL acquisition helps position Verizon in tech market - 0 views

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    On this blog, we recently discussed Verizon's intent to purchase web giant AOL. As an East Coast-based telecommunications corporation, Verizon doesn't naturally compete with companies like Facebook and Google, but some experts say that its latest purchase may position Verizon to rival those industry leaders in the increasingly heated area of web advertising.
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Bloglovin' acquires Finale to hire CEO - 0 views

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    One reason why companies merge and/or acquire smaller entities is to improve leadership on both sides. If your startup is on the verge of capitalizing through ecommerce or other sales, it's possible that current leadership doesn't have the expertise to bridge the transition. L
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Office Depot shareholders approve Staples acquisition - 0 views

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    After announcing that it planned to sell its assets to Staples back in February, office supply chain Office Depot has finally gained the approval of its shareholders to go ahead with the merger. However, nothing is definite yet, as the two companies still have to get permission from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) before the merger can be completed, and the commission has previously declined to give the go-ahead for the two companies to merge.
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Microsoft buys VoloMetrix to lend analytics to Office 365 - 0 views

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    "I am excited about this big step forward in our company ambition to reinvent productivity and business process, and how it will deliver new value to our customers with organizational analytics," he explained. "We expect to launch an early preview program for Delve Organizational Analytics within the next month, and general availability of the initial release of the integrated Office 365 service by the end of this calendar year."
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Questions to ask yourself before selling: Can the company succeed without me? - 0 views

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    According to Entrepreneur, buyers considering your company may be put off if they feel like they would be unable to operate the business without you. They may also be hesitant to fully invest if your company relies too heavily on one particular client.
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2015 could be the year of "boutique mergers" - 0 views

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    The splashiest tech mergers are billion-dollar partnerships between industry giants. And while 2014 posted more than its share of mega-mergers, experts say that the M&A momentum could focus activity in 2015 on smaller acquisitions. Rather than learning that the usual suspects have paid inordinate amounts of cash for big names in mobile apps or cloud computing, it's likely this year will be defined by other industries taking small bites out of the tech sphere.
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