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Archive for Category: In the News

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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May 28, 2008

My First SIFMA Show

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Today our Managing Partner wrote a piece for the A-TeamGroup. I’ve been attending the show now for more than 20 years. When I first started in the mid-1980s, the show was dominated by content companies. As now, there were 3-4 really big players and hundreds of smaller ones. Reuters has been a constant among the larger players. But, back in 1985, Thomson had not yet embarked on the series of acquisitions that created Thomson Financial. Dun & Bradstreet had just bought Datastream of the UK and then Interactive Data (I led those deals). McGraw Hill had a number of entrants…

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Feb 12, 2008

Analysts Say Microsoft-Yahoo Mating Dance Has Only Just Begun

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Today our Managing Partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a disucssion of Yahoo’s rehection of Microsoft’s bid for MediaBuyerPlanner. Yahoo’s formal rejection of Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid left the door open to give Yahoo management a chance to propose a plan to boost the stock above Microsoft’s bid, to solicit rival offers, and to attempt to raise the offering price from Microsoft, analysts say. Microsoft is not believed to have put its final offer on the table. “What Microsoft wants is someone to sit down and negotiate with them,” Ken Marlin, managing partner of Marlin & Associates, is quoted as…

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Feb 11, 2008

Despite rebuff, Microsoft to press on with Yahoo bid

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin was quoted discussing Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo by Jessica Guynn for The Los Angeles Times. The takeover target says the $44.6–billion unsolicited offer is too low. After being rebuffed by Yahoo Inc. today, Microsoft Corp. fired back by saying it planned to move quickly and by whatever means necessary to clinch the deal to buy the Internet company. It did not elaborate on what steps it planned to take, but called its $44.6–billion offer “full and fair.” Analysts have said Microsoft could sweeten its offer, nominate it own slate of directors to Yahoo’s board…

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