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After an unusually quiet first quarter, Google’s M&A activity in the Information Industry as tracked by Berkery Noyes has started to increase. Google made its first transaction of the year back in April, acquiring TxVia, a payments processing platform to go along with Google Wallet. Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings for $11.9 billion closed… View Article

Rivals Oracle and SAP have been active acquirers as of late. In our full year 2011 press release, Berkery Noyes mentioned SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors and Oracle’s acquisition of RightNow Technologies. Oracle and SAP’s M&A activity has continued into the first half of 2012, with a focus on social media marketing and the cloud. SAP announced… View Article

In our first quarter Information Industry press release, we emphasized the market need for software solutions that are capable of deconstructing large amounts of data from the web. The press release mentioned Connotate’s acquisition of Fetch Technologies, which will result in a merger between the two companies, as a pertinent example. Big data analytics is… View Article

Electronics manufacturers are increasingly looking to implement cloud solutions to go along with their hardware products. Berkery Noyes has seen companies such as Dell and IBM complete several acquisitions in this direction. With hardware manufacturing as a core component of their business model and enterprises moving their data centers onto the cloud, diversifying through acquisition… View Article

There has been speculation lately about Monster Worldwide being for sale, including a story in Reuters last Friday about LinkedIn’s potential interest in the Internet jobs search company. However, after conducting an initial assessment, LinkedIn has stated that it has no plans to acquire Monster. Besides looking at Monster’s strategic options, Silver Lake Partners has… View Article