Dot Consolidation Is Back04/19/2004 03:01 AM In case you hadn't noticed, while the dot com IPO market looks to be
heating up again, the busiest activity is actually
over in the mergers and acquisitions area where internet companies
are looking for consolidation opportunities before the prices of
smaller companies get too out of hand again. Of course, there's no
guarantee that acquiring companies will do much better than they've
done in the past integrating a bunch of disparate companies into a
single compelling entity, but people tend to ignore that in the heat
of a merger opportunity.
Is Consolidation A Myth?12/23/2003 02:45 AM Thought provoking piece over at Always-On suggesting that al
l this fear about consolidation killing off competition is a big
myth. While there are plenty of examples of companies buying up
each other (and even areas where there are fewer companies within a
specific space than before) consumers have more choice than ever
before, leading to better products and lower prices. Sure, it may
seem like there are big media conglomerates, but there are also plenty
of independent websites that give people choice. Sure, there may be
fewer small local banks, but there are plenty more banks that have
expanded from other areas to serve a large population. Basically,
what appears to be happening is that the regional companies are being
eaten up, but there's plenty of competition on a global basis. Of
course, there are still some exceptions (I'm still limited in my
broadband connection choice, for instance), but these might be
temporary monopolies, rather than a permanent state of affairs. I'm
not sure it's completely true, but I do think some fears about
consolidation everywhere are overblown.
Consolidation Changes ERP Landscape
Consolidation Changes ERP Landscape08/02/2004 06:47 AM The takeover battle between Oracle and PeopleSoft is only one
indication of a shifting industry that has companies seeking to
provide a complete IT stack.
There Is No Media Consolidation :: AO
There Is No Media Consolidation :: AO12/29/2003 04:20 PM "The truth is that the average American has access to more news
sources today than at any time since the beginning of civilization."
Mail.app, mutt, mail volume, and e-mail addiction04/23/2004 08:25 PM Since I've been using the Powerbook (which I still need to replace
with a newer one now that the "speed bump" is official), I've
drastically changed my e-mail habits (personal mail, not work mail).
In doing so, I wonder if I'm unusual in this respect. Previously, I
was using mutt for e-mail on my IBM Thinkpad running Linux. If you've
not tried it, mutt is really the king of all console-based mail
programs. It excels at making it very easy...
AP: Cing
ular agrees to buy AT&T Wireless. The merger between the
second and third largest U.S. wireless companies was announced Tuesday
as Britain's Vodafone Group PLC withdrew from the contest after four
days of rising bids.This merger won't necessarily be
bad for competition.I've been using AT&T's GSM service for about a
year now. Quality of service is marginal at best, and the customer
service has been worse than marginal. But Cingular, also a GSM
carrier, has an even worse reputation. So maybe combining these two
networks will create something that offers at least reasonable
quality.
"Yet, oddly, I find myself hoping the
Comcast-Disney deal goes through.
The temptation to discriminate in favor of its own content will surely
be irresistible to the merged company. Perhaps that will finally wake
up the public, if not Congress, to the threat. Nothing else has, so
far."
Whether Comcast or someone else buys Disney, it will provoke a debate
about the implications of media consolidation and the marriage of
content and conduit. If the merger partners say (as they surely
will) that they won't discriminate against unaffiliated content and
applications, they should have no objection to a public commitment to
that effect.
Here we go - the consolidation (next phase) has commenced
Is the Web’s ‘Nuclear Winter’ over? And is the
warmth of all of the emerging interest in Social Networking Services
helping to melt the ice? BusinessWeek’s Timothy Mullaney posits
that we might be in a thaw, in an article today about Barry
Diller’s [CEO of InterActiveCorp] acquisition of ZeroDegrees
— Diller’s Latest Little
Bet on the Net — [some other InterActiveCorp companies
— Expedia, Hotels.com, Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster,
Evite, Match.com, uDate, Citysearch, LendingTree, and
Hotwire.com.]
Diller could make other forays into the social-networking
area, says Dan Marriott, an IAC senior vice-president and head of the
new-business unit. He says IAC is looking at other dating and
social-connection sites, and might make an acquisition if the business
can be tied to a classified advertising model, as San Francisco-based
Tribe Networks is attempting. “The classified-ad approach Tribe
has identified is a valid approach,” said Marriott. “There
will be a market there. But we felt the business side is the right
place to start.”
Barry Diller’s InterActive Corp
acquired one of the enterprise social networking services,
ZeroDegrees (congrats Jas!). Apparently, he
is eyeing consumer social networking services as well. Exit,
anyone?
IAC nabs Friendster-like site. InterActiveCorp,
media mogul Barry Diller's conglomerate of enterprises ranging from
online dating to home loans, has agreed to acquire business networking
site ZeroDegrees. [CNET News.com - The
Net]
ZeroDegrees
acquired by InterActiveCorp. The news is out that ZeroDegrees has
been acquired by Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp, which also owns such
marquee Internet brands as Expedia and Match.com. "Social-networking
technology could also become a more central part of
customer-relationship-management software, a business where Diller...
[Get Real]
InterActiveCorp Buys ZeroDegrees. ZeroDegrees is
one of more than a dozen start-ups that have been launched over the
past year in the hope of cashing in on the trend popularized by dating
site Friendster. By Reuters. [New York
Times: Technology]
McData offers SAN consolidation
McData offers SAN consolidation09/27/2004 08:49 AM McData plans to introduce a new SAN router this week designed to
connect the growing number of isolated SAN networks in corporations.
You call this consolidation? (TheDeal.com)
You call this consolidation? (TheDeal.com)02/19/2004 06:16 AM TheDeal.com - A lack of clear matches should leave the wireless market
with five players after the Cingular-AT&T Wireless deal.
Media Consolidation, Continuing
Media Consolidation, Continuing02/11/2004 09:30 AM Comcast wants to buy Disney (Washington Post). I look forward to Michael
Powell's dismissal of media-consolidation worries on this one.
IDC: Consolidation to Windows won't happen04/23/2004 09:20 AM SINGAPORE - Microsoft Corp.'s domination of the client operating
systems market will fade over the next few years, according to Avneesh
Saxena, vice-president for Asia-Pacific computing systems research at
IDC.
Consolidation in Enterprise Software
Consolidation in Enterprise Software02/10/2004 02:51 AM From my handwritten notes (attributions lost), some highlights of the
session on ERP sector consolidation at the Enterprise Software Summit.
M&A was flat in 2003, except in the self-service category, which
surged in the second half with 16 deals representing...
Wireless Consolidation Looming?
Wireless Consolidation Looming?01/26/2004 04:13 PM As wireless users and industry experts voice mixed reactions to
reports of a possible merger between Cingular Wireless LLC and AT&T
Wireless Services Inc., most agree that carrier consolidation is
inevitable.
Consolidation runs amok02/10/2004 02:59 AM The impending acquisition of Confluent Software by Oblix has thrown a
spanner in the works of analysts' neat ...
Consolidation Is the New Focus Of IT Contracts (washingtonpost.com)
Consolidation Is the New Focus Of IT Contracts (washingtonpost.com)04/04/2005 02:08 AM washingtonpost.com - With a couple clicks of a mouse, you can file
your taxes, join the Army, reserve a cabin at a national park or
apply online for a student loan. In the past decade the federal
government has been wired to the hilt, automating its operations and
putting many services for taxpayers on the Web. The feds, it seems,
have successfully gone online.
Consolidation Changes ERP Landscape (Ziff Davis)08/02/2004 06:49 AM Ziff Davis - The takeover battle between Oracle and PeopleSoft is only
one indication of a shifting industry that has companies seeking to
provide a complete IT stack.
Consolidation Comes to Euro SEO as Notabene.net Is Acquired
Consolidation Comes to Euro SEO as Notabene.net Is Acquired03/14/2005 05:18 PM "... becoming Scandinavia’s biggest player on the rapidly growing
market. Notabene.net taken over by the successful Danish media house,
Danmark Online A/S, with a view to carrying on Notabene.net as the
common name and framework of its European objectives."
Telecom consolidation raises concerns for IT02/05/2005 08:59 PM The merger frenzy in the telecommunications industry accelerated with
SBC's agreement to buy AT&T, leaving some IT managers concerned about
the possible short- and long-term impacts on their network services.
Industry remains divided on the consolidation epidemic
Analyst Consolidation: Gartner Buys Meta12/27/2004 03:19 PM It appears that tech company consolidation isn't just in the tech
company space itself, but among those who analyze the tech space as
well. Gartner Group has apparently decided to spend
$165 million on META Group, the firm that once advised all
companies to ban
all cameraphones. Who knew that such bad advice could be so
profitable?
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