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US economy into recession technology companies took the opportunity to reshuffle the cards acquisiti
Posted Date: 20 Mar 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: jiapei Member Level: Bronze
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US economy into recession technology companies took the opportunity to reshuffle the cards acquisition
-- March 17, the foreign media has published an article analyzing the T, despite many technology companies have different levels of performance by the United States economy was in recession, but Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, America Online and EA company, but the stock slump For this opportunity on their respective industries to reshuffle the cards, and to provide new investment opportunities.
America Online announced last Thursday, the company will be 850 million US dollars to buy social networking site Bebo. This fully shows that IT companies want to draw on the capital market securities or the favorable opportunity of a downturn in the market for large-scale strategic acquisitions. Currently, the United States domestic macroeconomic situation is not optimistic. Market research firm ChangeWave last Thursday released a survey showing that the United States economy has already entered a recession. ChangeWave founder Tuobinshimishi (Tobin Smith), "said the current situation with the situation in 2002 basically the same, there is no thought, economic recession has come." The overall economic recession, but also make some investment companies have lowered the Many technology industry expectations. Citigroup investors in the last Thursday in the report pointed out that in the experience of the past five years of high-speed growth, the software industry is expected in 2008, the growth rate will begin to slow.
Market re-shuffling
Citigroup also noted in his report, in the current uncertain market environment, the potential merger and acquisition targets will be the hands of the investors providing the best stock appreciation of the opportunities. In 2007 the United States recorded a record amount of mergers and acquisitions, due to the economic deterioration in the overall economic situation, mergers and acquisitions cases and will be unlikely to exceed the amount of last year. However, this does not mean that the volume of cash in the hands of holders of technology companies will commence on the acquisition, use the opportunity to expand their business. The rapid growth of the Internet market and the more mature software market, the merger will be a rapid access to new technologies beneficial manner.
Technology companies in the current round of the acquisition wave, Microsoft bought Yahoo was the most typical example. Microsoft announced on February 1, the company will be approximately 44.6 billion US dollars to buy Yahoo. However, as Microsoft announced the acquisition plan, the company's share price began to fall, it has made the acquisition of Yahoo's price decline. Many industry analysts believe that, as with Yahoo's products and services too much coincidence, Microsoft after the acquisition, Yahoo consolidation will face major challenges. However, Microsoft announced the acquisition of Yahoo, which is less than 19 US dollars from the stock quickly rose to around 28 dollars now. If Yahoo can ultimately force Microsoft to abandon the transaction, I believe that Yahoo shares will also be down to the original price.
Last Thursday, the initial purchase proposal by the management refused to Take-Two, EA video game developers to Take-Two shareholders of the tender offer, the spearhead of the war will begin to shareholders of the latter. EA's acquisition in cash, the acquisition value of 2 billion US dollars. Not long ago, the company Take-Two management had made the same bid, but had been rejected on the grounds that the offer "far underestimated," the company's business value. EA plans to buy 26 US dollars Take-Two, the price of Take-Two in the February 15 closing price of 15.83 US dollars premium of 64 per cent.
Google's stock has been declining recently, but last week the European Commission approved the company's acquisition of DoubleClick, the company's share price as high as 26.22 US dollars, to close at 439.84 US dollars.
Under a takeover target
Citigroup also noted in his report, Informatica data integration software developers, middleware developer Tibco, data center software provider Bladelogic these companies are likely to become the next acquisition target.
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