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Archive for Author: Marlin & Associates

Jan 5, 2009

Big Fish Among Sharks

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Today we announced our recently brokered sale of Tenfore Systems to Morningstar. Chief executive Ken Marlin spoke to Inside Market Data about his views on the M&A landscape, his predictions for activity in the market data industry, and his love of all things New York. IMD: For the uninitiated, can you tell us a little about Marlin & Associates, and what the company does? Marlin: We are a boutique investment bank that operates at the intersection of data and technology. We advise owners of US and international middle–market technology and technology–enabled information–based companies that are looking to be buyers or…

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Dec 17, 2008

Morningstar, Inc. Acquires Tenfore Systems Limited

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Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today announced it has acquired M&A client, Tenfore Systems Limited, a global provider of real–time market data and financial data workstations based in the United Kingdom, for 13.5 million pounds sterling in cash, or approximately U.S.$21.0 million, subject to post–closing adjustments. Tenfore collects data on global equities, commodities, derivatives, indexes, and foreign currencies from more than 160 sources and consolidates the data for real–time distribution to clients. The company also offers front–end software terminals that leverage the company’s market data, along with analytics and third–party application plug–ins. Key benefits of…

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Dec 1, 2008

Huffington Post raises $25M round

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Today our partner Michael (Max) Maxworthy was quoted in a disucssion on Huffington Post’s capital raise of $25M by David Shabelman for The Deal.com. Times are tough for traditional newspapers, with increasing numbers of people choosing to get information online in real time rather than read yesterday’s news. Among the chief beneficiaries in the media industry are online companies such as HuffingtonPost.com Inc., which said Monday, Dec. 1, the company has raised $25 million in Series C funding from Oak Investment Partners. In addition to political commentary, Huffington Post provides news on business, the media and entertainment, with separate channels…

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Nov 24, 2008

I Now Pronounce You Merged!

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Today our partner Michael (Max) Maxworthy was quoted by Max Bowie for Inside Market Data. …This week alone, European multilateral trading facility Chi-X tied the knot with data technology provider Cicada, while Swedish news provider Direkt divorced Swedish electronic publishing house Bisnode to elope with Norwegian data vendor Infront, and Interactive Data remarried the NTT Data Financial Corp. subsidiary of Japan’s NTT data, the two having previously divorced in the 1990s. Chi-X’s purchase of Cicada gives the market operator a second, established technology platform at its fingertips, in addition to its current trading and data engine, to sell to other…

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Sep 11, 2008

Stockhouse Engages Marlin & Associates

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Stockhouse, a leading financial media company focused on user generated content and collaborative technologies for brokerage firms and retail investors today announced it has engaged Marlin & Associates. We will provide strategic advice and consulting to management and the board on maximizing shareholder value. “We are very concerned with our share price which we feel is tremendously undervalued,” stated Marcus New, CEO of Stockhouse. “We are pleased to have engaged Marlin & Associates one of our industry’s leading investment advisory firms to provide strategic advice on increasing shareholder value.” “We are very excited about working with Stockhouse and see tremendous value in…

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