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An acquisition takes place when one company completely buys out another company, and the former company remains. Examples include:
- investment firm buys all the stock of a public company (Blackstone Group buys Harrah's Entertainment)
- company buys another company (Wachovia buys First Union) If...
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Determine Software | 2005 | |||
| Federated Department Stores |
Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M) is a department store holding company and owner of Macy's and Bloomingdale's department stores. Macy's, Inc.'s stores specialize mostly in the retail sale of clothing, cosmetics, jewellery, watches, bedding and bath,...
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Hecht's | ||||
| Amazon.com |
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American multinational electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. The company also produces consumer electronics - notably the...
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Alexa Internet | |||
| Red Hat Software |
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Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices worldwide. Red Hat
is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by
making high-quality, low-cost technology...
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JBoss | |||
| Red Hat Software |
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Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices worldwide. Red Hat
is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by
making high-quality, low-cost technology...
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Cygnus Solutions | |||
| Red Hat Software |
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Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices worldwide. Red Hat
is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by
making high-quality, low-cost technology...
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Sistina Software | |||
| NBC |
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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in...
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Oxygen media | Oct 2007 | ||
| Yahoo! |
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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail,...
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Right Media | Sep 2007 | ||
| Netscape |
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Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its...
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Collabra Software | 1995 | ||
| 3Com |
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3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) is a manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw, and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The name 3Com...
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Primary Access | |||
| Lucent Technologies |
Lucent (officially Lucent Technologies, Inc.) was an American multinational technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T; Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. It was spun off from AT&T; on September 30, 1996.
Lucent...
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Ascend Communications | 1999 | |||
| Ascend Communications |
Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California-based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999.
Ascend Communications designed and manufactured equipment for high density dialup installations,...
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Cascade Communications | 1997 | |||
| Ascend Communications |
Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California-based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999.
Ascend Communications designed and manufactured equipment for high density dialup installations,...
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Livingston Enterprises | ||||
| Ascend Communications |
Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California-based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999.
Ascend Communications designed and manufactured equipment for high density dialup installations,...
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Netstar | 1996 | |||
| Ascend Communications |
Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California-based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999.
Ascend Communications designed and manufactured equipment for high density dialup installations,...
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Morning Star Technologies | 1996 | |||
| Ascend Communications |
Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California-based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999.
Ascend Communications designed and manufactured equipment for high density dialup installations,...
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Stratus Technologies | 1998 | |||
| Siebel Systems |
Siebel CRM Systems, Inc. was a software company principally engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management (CRM) applications. The company was founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993. At first known mainly...
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Onlink Technologies | Aug 2000 | |||
| CA Inc. |
CA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA), formerly CA, Inc. and Computer Associates International, Inc., is one of the largest independent software corporations in the world. Headquartered in Islandia, New York, the company creates software which runs in...
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Interlink Computer Sciences | 2000 | |||
| Pure Software | 1997 | |||||
| Parakey | Jun 2007 | |||||
| Ericsson |
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Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including...
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Entrisphere | |||
| First Data |
First Data Corporation is an American payment processing company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. First Data is a provider of electronic commerce and payment solutions. The company's portfolio includes merchant transaction processing services;...
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Achex | ||||
| Compaq |
Compaq Computer Corporation was a company founded in 1982, that developed, sold and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the first company to legally reverse...
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Digital Equipment Corporation | Jan 26, 1998 | |||
| Norfolk Southern Railway |
The Norfolk Southern Railway (reporting mark NS) is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. With headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, the company operates over 20,000 route miles in 22 eastern states, the...
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Consolidated Rail Corporation | 1999 | |||
| CSX Transportation |
CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United States. It is the main subsidiary of the CSX Corporation. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and owns approximately 21,000 route miles. CSX operates one...
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Consolidated Rail Corporation | 1999 | |||
| Penn Central Transportation |
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The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American railroad company that operated from 1968 until 1976. It was created by the merger on February 1, 1968, of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and the New York...
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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | Jan 1, 1969 | ||
| New York City Subway |
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The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and also known as MTA New York City Transit. It is...
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Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation | |||
| Trusted Information Systems |
Trusted Information Systems (TIS) was a computer security research and development company during the 1980s and 1990s, performing computer and communications (information) security research for organizations such as NSA, DARPA, ARL, AFRL, SPAWAR,...
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Haystack Labs | ||||
| Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
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SGI is a leader in high-performance computing. SGI delivers a complete
range of high-performance server and storage solutions along with
industry-leading professional services and support that enable its
customers to overcome the challenges of...
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Cray Research, Inc. | 1996 | ||
| St. Jude Medical |
St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ) is a $16 billion (market cap) global medical device company, with headquarters in Little Canada, Minnesota, United States, a suburb of St. Paul. The company sells products in more than 100 countries and has over 20...
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Ventritex | ||||
| Bell Atlantic | NYNEX | Aug 14, 1997 | ||||
| Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful
connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible... |
AireSpace, Inc | ||||
| Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful
connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible... |
Clarity Wireless, Inc | Nov 1998 | |||
| Siemens AG |
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Siemens AG (German pronunciation: [ˈziːməns]) is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company.
Siemens is an integrated technology company...
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Argon Networks | |||
| Intel Corporation |
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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is...
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Xircom | |||
| Synopsys |
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Synopsys, Inc. is one of the largest companies in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an...
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Integrated Systems Engineering AG | 2004 | ||
| Synopsys |
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Synopsys, Inc. is one of the largest companies in the Electronic Design Automation industry. Synopsys' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool. Synopsys offers a wide range of other products used in the design of an...
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CADIS gmbH | 1994 | ||
| iUpload |
iUpload (now Awareness, Inc.) is a content management and corporate blogging software company that creates blogging communities for its clients. A community may be public facing to engage an audience, or internal to the company, serving as a way for...
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WebPartz | Mar 2003 | |||
| Art.com |
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Art.com, Inc. opened its
virtual doors in 1995, and over that time, has helped over 4 million
customers decorate their walls from the world’s large collection of art
imagery. Our selection of over 400,000 images includes nearly every
imaginable...
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AllPosters.com | |||
| Dornier Flugzeugwerke |
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Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claudius Dornier. Over the course of its long lifespan, the company produced many notable designs for both the civil and military markets.
Originally...
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Friedrichshafen Flugzeugbau | |||
| IBM |
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International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it...
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Informix | 2001 | ||
| Dell |
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Dell, Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is an American multinational computer technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its...
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EqualLogic | Nov 5, 2007 | ||
| Symantec Corporation |
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Symantec
Corporation NASDAQ: SYMC, founded in 1982, is an international
corporation which sells computer software, particularly in the realms
of security and information management. Headquartered in Cupertino,
California, USA, Symantec has...
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Vontu | Nov 5, 2007 | ||
| Hewlett-Packard |
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Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States that provides products, technologies, software, solutions and services to consumers,...
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Logoworks | May 2007 | ||
| Electronic Arts |
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Electronic Arts (EA) is the
world’s leading independent developer and publisher of interactive
entertainment software for advanced console systems such as the PlayStation® 3,
PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the PSP™ (PlayStation®...
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Maxis | 1997 | ||
| Electronic Arts |
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Electronic Arts (EA) is the
world’s leading independent developer and publisher of interactive
entertainment software for advanced console systems such as the PlayStation® 3,
PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the PSP™ (PlayStation®...
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Westwood Studios | 1998 | ||
| Cadence Design Systems |
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: CDNS) is an electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc. For years it had been the largest company in the EDA industry...
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Get2Chip | Apr 2003 | ||
| Manhattan Associates |
Manhattan Associates is a supply chain management software provider. It was founded in 1990 in Manhattan Beach, California from where it borrows its name. The company has been headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1995 and operates offices around...
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Evant, Inc. | Sep 1, 2005 | |||
| Infor Global Solutions |
Infor Global Solutions is a privately held U.S. software company that specializes in enterprise software ranging from financial systems and resource planning (ERP) to supply chain and customer relationships.
Headquartered in New York, Infor is a...
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2006 | ||||
| NEXX Systems |
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NEXX Systems was founded in August 2001 through the acquisition from
MKS Instruments of the ASTeX systems group. The sale comprised the
purchase of the Nimbus product line of sputter deposition systems and
exclusive license to manufacture ECR...
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All-Wet Technologies | Apr 2003 | ||
| Oracle Corporation |
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Oracle
Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing
database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development,
middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP),
customer relationship management...
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LogicalApps | Oct 2007 | ||
| Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful
connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible... |
Topspin Communications | 2005 | |||
| Emerson Electric Company |
Emerson Electric Company (NYSE: EMR) is a major multinational corporation headquartered in Ferguson, Missouri, United States. This Fortune 500 company manufactures products and provides engineering services for a wide range of industrial, commercial...
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Cooligy | ||||
| MediaTek |
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MediaTek Inc. (MTK ) is a fabless semiconductor company, designing and selling components for wireless communication, optical storage, GPS, high-definition digital TV and DVD products. The company was founded on May 28, 1997. It is headquartered in...
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NuCore Technology | 2007 | ||
| nCircle Network Security, Inc. |
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nCircle is the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions. More than 3,500 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world rely on nCircle's proactive security solutions to identify,...
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Cambia Security, Inc. | May 23, 2007 | ||
| Model N, Inc. |
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Model N is the leader in Revenue Management — an emerging enterprise
application category that enables companies to align and improve the
processes of pricing and quoting, contract development and management,
trade settlements and channel...
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Azerity | |||
| Citrix Systems |
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. It
delivers software and services to secure and optimize delivery of
corporate and web-based applications. This means...
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XenSource | Aug 2007 | |||
| Tidal Software |
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Tidal Software brings a radically simple approach
to optimizing the operations of one of your company’s most complex
assets: its enormous infrastructure of enterprise applications
including SAP, Oracle, Informatica, Symantec/Veritas and many others...
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Intersperse | |||
| HomeAway |
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HomeAway, Inc. is an online vacation rental marketplace. HomeAway connects homeowners and property managers who advertise (or list) their properties available for rent with travelers who choose these alternative accommodations instead of hotels....
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VRBO | |||
| Yahoo! |
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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail,...
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Zimbra | Sep 2007 | ||
