Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions
By John Walker on May 15, 2012
Are you fed up with your job and dreaming of being your own boss? Channel 4 wants to hear from you!
A New Channel 4 series ‘Compare Your Life’ has enlisted Carlton Hood - the former CEO of Confused.com - to help families who are desperate to escape the daily grind and become their own boss.
In [...]
Posted in Accounts, Business Formats and Ways of Working, Business Support Services, Commercial Premises, Cost Management, Financial Capital, Franchises, Market Research, Reputation, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups, TV & Media Opportunities (Announcements of), Television and Radio Broadcasting, UK | Tagged Carlton Hood, Channel-4, Compare Your Life, Confused.com, True North Productions |
By John Walker on March 29, 2012
Commercial tenants who have concerns about their rental contracts are being urged to take advantage of a new lease review scheme from solicitors Birkett Long.
The firm has launched a fixed-price service giving tenants advice about the content of their own individual lease. Commercial Property solicitor David Temperton explained that tenants may have a number of [...]
Posted in Closing Down, Commercial Law, Commercial Premises, Commercial Property Services, Down sizing / Retraction, Equipment & Operational Resources, Essex, Expansion, Legal Advice, Product Launches, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups, The Work Place | Tagged Basildon, Birkett Long LLP, Chelmsford, Colchester, commercial tenants, David Temperton, lease review, new financial year, rent review, rental contracts |
By John Walker on March 2, 2012
Shutterfly to provide stalking horse bid in court-supervised auction process
ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 01 —
Eastman Kodak Company has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Shutterfly, a leading Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, for the proposed sale of certain assets of its KODAK Gallery on-line photo services business for $23.8 million. [...]
Posted in Business Continuity Planning, Chemical and Petroleum Products Manufacturing, Contact Management, Customer Retention, Customer Support, Deals and Agreements, Demergers, Design and Photographic Services, E-commerce, Information Technology, Internet Services, North America, People and Players, Printing and Printing Support Activities, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology | Tagged Eastman Kodak Company, Kodak, Pradeep Jotwani, Shutterfly, U.S. Bankruptcy Court |
By John Walker on February 28, 2012
360i parent company Dentsu Network West to invest in Expion to catapult social software company’s growth through integration of earned & paid social media
Digital agency 360i and social software firm Expion today announced a strategic partnership to revolutionize the way brands invest in Facebook. The partnership will result in the development of a powerful integrated [...]
Posted in Advertising, Advertising and Marketing Services, Brands, Business Software, Contact Management, Cost Management, Customer Retention, Customer Support, Deals and Agreements, E-commerce, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Market Research, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Recruitment, Reporting, Reputation, Sales, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology, Worldwide | Tagged 360i, advertising in 2011, Altimeter Group, Bryan Wiener, Dentsu Network West, Expion, Facebook, Facebook Marketing, Jeremiah Owyang, Peter Heffring |
By John Walker on February 22, 2012
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) announced, today, that it has acquired Mykonos Software, the leading provider of Intrusion Deception Systems that protect websites and web applications. Under the terms of the agreement, Juniper acquired Mykonos Software for a cash purchase price of approximately $80 million.
Mykonos Software is a private company that was [...]
Posted in Deals and Agreements, E-commerce, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Security, Information Technology, Internet Services, North America, People and Players, Product Research and Development, Regulatory Compliance, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology | Tagged David Koretz, Juniper Networks, Mykonos Software |
By John Walker on January 27, 2012
Last Year’s Dragons’ Den was record breaking, attracting more viewers than ever before. New Dragon Hilary Devey arrived, arched her shoulder pads and firmly established her place amongst the revered business leaders, and some of Britain’s best entrepreneurs gained the cash they desperately needed to turn their business fortunes around. Now it’s 2012 and [...]
Posted in Announcements, Business Continuity Planning, Business Support Services, Deals and Agreements, Expansion, Financial Capital, Financial Services, Franchising Out, Fundability, Ideas and Innovation, Intellectual Property, Lending and Borrowing, Loans and Finance, Management Consultancy, People and Players, Product Research and Development, Reputation, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups, TV & Media Opportunities (Announcements of), Television and Radio Broadcasting, UK | Tagged Alan Colleran, Barack Obama, Chris Hopkins, Deborah Meaden, Dragons' Den, Duncan Bannatyne, Georgette Hewitt, Hilary Devey, Kirsty Henshaw, Liz Colleran, Natalie Ellis, Peter Jones, Richard Branson, Theo Paphitis |
By John Walker on November 29, 2011
The Chancellor has today delivered his autumn statement to Parliament, alongside the publication of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s updated forecasts for growth and borrowing. He announced permanent reductions in spending to ensure that the UK meets its fiscal targets, using some of those savings in the short term to fund infrastructure investment to generate [...]
Posted in Accounts, Business Banking, Business Continuity Planning, Commercial Property Services, Cost Management, Critical Infrastructure, Distribution Channels, Down sizing / Retraction, E-commerce, Economic Cycles, Employment Levels, Financial Capital, Forecasts, Fundability, Grants and Funding Pronouncements, Industrial Relations, Inflation, Insurance, Lending and Borrowing, Loans and Finance, Monetary Policy, Morale, Organized Labour / Unions, Outsourcing, People and Players, Political and Economic Philosophies, Politics & Legislation, Procurement, Product Research and Development, Public Sector, Public Spending and State Aid, Recruitment, Regulation, Regulatory Compliance, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Skills and Training, Staff, Startups, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunications, UK, UK Budget, Utilities | Tagged Air Passenger Duty (APD), Apprenticeship, Association of British Insurers, Autumn Statement, bank levy, Bank of England, Business Finance Partnership, Chancellor, Child Tax Credit, deficit reduction, enterprise, Enterprise Zones, free education, Free Schools, fuel duty increase, Infrastructure Investors Forum, infrastructure spending, Jobcentre Plus, Jobseeker’s allowance, Local Authorities, measures, mid-sized businesses, National Infrastructure Plan, National Loan Guarantee Scheme, OBR, Office for Budget Responsibility, Official Development Assistance, pension funds, Sector Based Work Academy, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), small firms, smaller businesses, Spending Review period, State Pension age, super-connected cities, tax relief, Work Experience, young apprentices, Youth Contract |
By John Walker on August 24, 2011
What makes business rock?
Bill Roedy, the man behind MTV, gives a preview of his new business memoirs documenting how he built a single channel into the largest media network in the world.
Its global audience is the envy of the world’s media corporations, with a network which included 200 channels and 200 digital properties in 175 [...]
Posted in Arts and entertainment, Brands, Expansion, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Franchising Out, Ideas and Innovation, Market Research, Music Production and Publishing, People and Players, Product Launches, Project Management, Reputation, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups, Television and Radio Broadcasting, Worldwide | Tagged Bill Roedy, biographies, book, MTV, What Makes Business Rock: Building the World’s Largest Global Networks |
By John Walker on August 15, 2011
Combination will Supercharge Android, Enhance Competition, and Offer Wonderful User Experiences
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and LIBERTYVILLE, IL - AUGUST 15, 2011
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a [...]
Posted in Deals and Agreements, Electronic Equipment and Computer Manufacturing, IT and Telecommunications Services, Legal services, Procurement, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Worldwide | Tagged Google |
By John Walker on January 24, 2011
Tencent announced the establishment of Tencent Collaboration Fund (the “Fund”) which aims to invest up to RMB 5 billion in innovative and top-notch Internet and related companies in China. The Fund will operate as an internal fund of Tencent and will be invested when appropriate opportunities arise.
The Fund is intended to provide capital support for [...]
Posted in Asia, Financial Resources, Grants and Funding Pronouncements, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Procurement, Product Research and Development, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology | Tagged Ma Huateng, Martin Lau, Paipai, QQ Mall, Qzone, Richard Peng, Tencent, Tencent Collaboration Fund, Tencent Microblog, TenPay |
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