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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...

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If 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...

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Quik-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...

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AbleAdvisory: 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...

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Software 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...

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Salesforce.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...

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Acquisitions, 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...

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Salesforce 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...

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Out 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....

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Citrix 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...

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Apple – 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...

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And 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...

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My 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...

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It 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...

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Salesforce.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...

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Why 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,...

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Did 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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