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A few days ago, Medical Transcription Billing Corporation announced its acquisition of United Physicians Management Services. This transaction follows several recent deals in the revenue cycle management space. Back in January, MedData, a medical billing services provider, announced its acquisition of MedDirect, a revenue cycle management company.  Meanwhile, some similar deals in February include Recondo Technology’s acquisition of… View Article

Last Thursday, Oracle announced its acquisition of Taleo Corporation for about $1.9 billion. Taleo focuses on utilizing talent management processes in the cloud. According to Oracle, one of the main goals of the transaction is to enable a wide range of organizations to better administer their human resource operations. With this deal, Oracle and Taleo… View Article

The Private Equity trends report covers transactions made by financially sponsored acquirers within the Information Industry – defined as media, software, and online & mobile companies – including acquisitions made by subsidiaries or platforms of private equity firms. “Although deal volume involving PE fluctuated throughout 2011, our data does present a healthy year to year… View Article

The Information Industry trends report is defined by Berkery Noyes as covering Media, Software, and Online & Mobile companies. “Large tech players were heavily involved in intellectual property M&A,” said James Berkery, Chief Information Officer at Berkery Noyes. “Strong strategic interest in the sector was evident in 2011. For instance, Nortel sold 6,000 wireless patents… View Article

“2011 was a successful year for M&A in the education industry across most sectors in terms of activity and valuations,” said Berkery Noyes managing director Mary Jo Zandy. “This momentum has further built in the first quarter of 2012. Areas of most interest to acquirers at the present time are online education, education services and… View Article