Tuesday, July 24, 2007

HP to acquire Opsware; Cisco invests in OpTier

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Network World's IT Market Watch News Alert, 07/24/07

HP to acquire Opsware in $1.6 billion deal, 07/23/07: HP to acquire data center automation vendor Opsware to help customers reduce the complexity of managing sophisticated application environments.

Cisco invests in OpTier, 07/23/07: OpTier Monday said Cisco had invested an undisclosed amount to help the company continue to deliver business transaction management software.

HP set to buy Neoware for $214 million, 07/23/07: HP on Monday announced plans to acquire thin-client computing vendor Neoware for approximately $214 million in a deal HP says will enhance its personal systems technologies.

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Google invests in home cell-station vendor, 07/20/07: Femtocells, an emerging technology for improving cellular coverage in homes and enterprises, have attracted the interest of none other than Google.

Court pushes back Qualcomm request for stay of ban, 07/20/07: A federal court won't consider Qualcomm's request for a stay of a trade commission order that bans the importation of its chips into the U.S.

Google to FCC: Accept our rules and we'll bid, 07/20/07: In its clearest statement of intent so far, Google said that it will compete in an upcoming wireless spectrum auction, if the government agrees to certain rules.

Nortel eyeing others?, 07/20/07: 3Com may not be the only company Nortel is interested in. The Canadian telecom giant might also be sizing up four others for acquisition, according to an investor bulletin issued this week by UBS Warburg.

Google's chief legal officer slapped with SEC fines, 07/20/07: Google's chief legal officer was fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday over accounting issues arising from when he was CFO at a former company.

Enterprise business improves in Juniper's Q2, 07/20/07: Juniper’s enterprise business improves in Q2

Dell to acquire managed services provider, 07/19/07: Dell could enhance its services division with the SilverBack acquisition by incorporating the managed services provider's technology for remote monitoring of servers, storage, security networks, desktops and laptops.

Cisco facing up to challenges, 07/19/07: Cisco’s success means it must continually seek new markets.

Sprint, Clearwire team up on WiMAX deal, 07/19/07: Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have entered an agreement to jointly build the first nationwide WiMAX network in the U.S., the two companies announced Thursday.

Microsoft reports $51B fiscal 2007 revenue, takes financial hit from Xbox, 07/19/07: Microsoft Thursday reported that its rode the back of its two flagship products in booking increases in both its fourth-quarter revenue and its fiscal year 2007 revenue, which topped $51 billion.

Google Q2 earnings continue to climb, 07/19/07: Google revenue continued to climb in the second quarter, with the company reporting $3.87 billion, up 58% compared to the same quarter last year.

Microsoft’s services transition an uphill climb, 07/18/07: If Microsoft wants to succeed in becoming a services company it will have to undergo a major transformation in its corporate culture, business model, and partner and customer relationships.

Analyst: Time for 3Com to act, 07/18/07: Reports of 3Com’s sell-off expected due to stock price, slow progress.

BMC acquires RealOps, 07/19/07: Management software maker BMC on Thursday announced it has acquired run-book-automation vendor RealOps.

Xandros buys Linux e-mail vendor Scalix, 07/18/07: Linux desktop, server vendor Xandros buys Salix; will maintain versions for Red Hat, Novell SuSE and other platforms, and make Xandros management tools available for those Linux distributions.

IBM shakes up sales organization to target SMB market, 07/19/07: IBM is revamping part of its sales organization to better target the small-to-midsized business market.

Yahoo buys stake in Indian online ad company, 07/18/07: Yahoo has acquired a stake in Indian Internet advertising company Tyroo Media to help it capture more of the country's fast-growing online ad market.

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