Amazon, the World’s Default Shopping Destination (or is it Zamazon now?)
Recently I wrote about PaaS by Amazon – an no, as much as we like thinking of Amazon as the the key Cloud Computing infrastructure provider, it wasn’t about Platform as a Service. It was about Pasta...
View ArticleIf You Wonder What Happens When You Get Bought Out Check Out FriendFeed’ s...
I am not saying that this happens to everyone or that everyone is ticked that Facebook bought out FriendFeed. But obviously I have been disappointed by FriendFeed being bought out by Facebook. While I...
View ArticleQuik-Fire Bloggers Have a Big Happy Picnik:-)
Oops. We’ve just posted two articles on the Picnik acquisition. As first reactions to the news, they do overlap quite a bit. Apologies for the oversight, but let me quickly add, it may happen...
View ArticleAbleAdvisory: Foursquare Halts Talks With Facebook, Completes Next Round
According to Kara Swisher, Foursquare is close to completing a funding deal with the Andressen Horowitz, the firm that "had publicly dissed the hot social location site and walked away from earlier...
View ArticleSoftware Is The New Hardware
Today Intel announced that it is buying McAfee for $7.7 billion. This acquisition made people scratch their heads. Why McAfee? The obvious arguments are that Intel has hit the growth wall and organic...
View ArticleSalesforce.com Acquires DimDim
Image via CrunchBase Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that it is acquiring DimDim, a low priced Webex competitor, for approximately 31 Million in cash. DimDim was...
View ArticleAcquisitions, Trust And Cloud Services
Last week, Salesforce.com acquired the web conferencing provider DimDim for $31 Million. Immediately after the news was out, DimDim sent a mail telling their users that free and month by month...
View ArticleSalesforce Acquires Radian6 To Help Their Customers Become Socially Adept
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Salesforce.com (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that they are acquiring Radian6, a company helping organizations monitor and engage with their...
View ArticleOut of Left Field: Vmware Acquires Sliderocket
Quick initial reaction: scratching head. Vmware recently shook up the Cloud Computing world with the launch of Cloud Foundry and I think most of us would have pegged them as an infrastructure company....
View ArticleCitrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis
Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage), the virtualization player who is gaining some decent traction recently, today announced the acquisition of Cloud.com (previous CloudAve coverage), the open source...
View ArticleApple – Color Acquisition Rumors
So people are scratching their heads on news rumors (OK, rumours for some of you) on Apple buying failed (?) startup Color (Colour, if you insist). All I can say is: back to 1977 Related articles...
View ArticleAnd So Begins the End of this SaaS M&A Cycle
TechCrunch is reporting layoffs of 100 or so in Radian6/BuddyMedia at Salesforce, and even worse, pretty mediocre post-acquisition performance. After acquiring BuddyMedia for $689m-$800m when it was...
View ArticleMy Top 3 Tips On How to Help Your Team Succeed if You Are Acquired
We recently passed the 2 year anniversary of our acquisition by Adobe. I’ve learned a lot that I want to cover later, but one question I was recently asked was what can do in an acquisition as a...
View ArticleIt Doesn’t Really Matter When Your Competitor is Acquired. (Except It Means...
There’s a common bit of advice we entrepreneurs and execs always get: worry less about the competition, and more just about growing your own business. It’s good, sound advice. But man — it’s hard...
View ArticleSalesforce.com’s $212 Million Acquisition of Heorku – A Sparkling Gem In...
I met James Lindenbaum, a founder of Heroku, in early 2009, at the Under The Radar conference in Mountain View. We had a long conversation on cloud as a great platform for Ruby, why Ruby on Rails is a...
View ArticleWhy acquisition beats retention
In a short conversation with Graham Hill today, the topic of acquisition versus retention was brought up. My response to Graham’s initial question was “human nature”: @GrahamHill: If only banks,...
View ArticleDid SAP Overpay For Concur?
Since SAP announced to acquire Concur and eventually closed the acquisition for $8.3B many people have reached out to me asking whether SAP overpaid for Concur. I avoid writing about SAP on this blog...
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