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Why large companies make acquisitions

The Equity Kicker

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group. Witness the recent margin pressure in Cisco’s core switching business.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

Both Sides of the Table

Limited “Targeting&# of Advertisements : The great promise of the Internet for advertisers was that they were finally going to be able to deliver targeted advertisements to users because they could finally know who you were. I would reduce my equity stake much further. Boxee was created to give us this experience.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Social media. Social networking. Social games. The Bing Fund will invest $50,000-$100,000 in early-stage startups, through standard convertible notes (loans that convert to equity at Microsoft’s option). 10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh. Streaming media. Streaming video.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.