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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

In Berkery Noyes’ first quarter 2012 Online and Mobile press release, we discussed M&A surrounding mobile marketing and advertising. Digital marketing, examined as a subset of the e-marketing and search segment, experienced a seven percent increase in M&A activity in the first three months of 2012. In particular, we noted SingTel’s acquisition of Amobee for… View Article

Facebook has made several recent, albeit distinct, mobile acquisitions leading up to its initial public offering (IPO). We’ve discussed the acquisitions of Instagram and Tagtile in our previous posts. With its latest acquisition, Facebook has gained a new technology in the “social discovery” space. A few days ago, Facebook acquired Glancee, a location based and… View Article

Transaction volume relating to customer relations software increased 33 percent between 2010 and 2011, from 67 to 89 transactions. There have been several notable transactions thus far in 2012 as well.  Most recently, IBM announced its acquisition of Tealeaf Technology. Tealeaf, with its array of analytics software, allows marketers to gain additional insight as to how customers interact… View Article