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Archive for: February 10, 2008

Feb 10, 2008

Yahoo Board to Spurn $44B Microsoft Bid

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo by Michael Liedtke for AP News. Yahoo Inc.’s board will reject Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday. The decision could provoke a showdown between two of the world’s most prominent technology companies with Internet search leader Google Inc. looming in the background. Leery of Microsoft expanding its turf on the Internet, Google already has offered to help Yahoo avert a takeover and urged antitrust regulators to…

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Feb 10, 2008

Netik Breaks Off From BNY Mellon, Buys Capco Reference Data Unit

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In a two–step reorganization, our client,  data warehouse provider Netik, has used funding from private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) to spin off from majority–owner Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and acquire Capco’s reference data management arm. The financial terms of the deals, completed in January but announced today, were not disclosed. Netik officials said that Palo Alto, Calif.–based STG, a technology holding company, now holds a majority stake of undisclosed size in the company; Bank of New York Mellon, which previously owned 51 percent, retains a minority interest. The former Bank of New York purchased its stake…

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