acquisitions

SaaS Web Security Provider

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Dec. 7, 2009 – Cisco today announced it has completed its purchase of ScanSafe, Inc. Based in London and San Francisco, ScanSafe is a market leader of software-as- a-service (SaaS) Web security solutions for organizations ranging from global enterprises to small businesses.

Leading SaaS Web Security Provider; Will Broaden Existing On-Premise Web Security Offering and Expand Cloud-Based Service Opportunities

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Oct. 27, 2009 – Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held ScanSafe, Inc. Based in London and San Francisco, ScanSafe is a market leader of software-as- a-service (SaaS) Web security solutions for organizations ranging from global enterprises to small businesses.

Deal Reinforces Burst’s Position as a Champion of Vertical Content Online

Burlington, MA—October 8, 2009 - Burst Media, a provider of advertising representation, services and technology to independent Web Publishers, today announced that the company has completed the acquisition of the business and assets of New York-based Giant Realm, Inc.

Technology Will Extend Ad Optimization Intelligence Within the Rubicon Project’s Online Advertising Infrastructure

LOS ANGELES – September 15, 2009 - the Rubicon Project, the Internet advertising infrastructure company, has acquired Others Online, the audience optimization company, to further expand its ad optimization platform. The acquisition is part of an aggressive effort by the Rubicon Project to further build out its platform to deliver premium Web publishers the most effective monetization of their audiences and inventory.

LOS ANGELES, CA, August 19, 2009 -- MySpace today announced an agreement to acquire iLike, a leading social music discovery service. The acquisition brings together two companies who share a common vision revolving around social discovery and distribution of quality content.

PALO ALTO, CA, August 10, 2009 -- Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams.

Global Software Leader SAP to Broaden Scope of Offerings in Forecasting and Replenishment for Retail and Wholesaling

WALLDORF, Germany and TÄGERWILEN, Switzerland, July 20, 2009 -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), the world's leading provider of business software, today announced its intent to make a public tender offer to purchase all shares in SAF Simulation, Analysis and Forecasting AG, one of the global forecasting and replenishment software leaders in the retail and wholesale industries.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 17, 2009 – Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Wind River Systems Inc. Wind River is a leading software vendor in embedded devices, and is part of Intel's strategy to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional PC and server market segments into embedded systems and mobile handheld devices.

Deal Will Extend Scale-out Storage Capabilities to Global Customers

PALO ALTO, CA, July 17, 2009 -- HP (NYSE: HPQ) and IBRIX today announced a definitive agreement for HP to acquire IBRIX, a leading provider of enterprise-class file serving software that includes data protection, high-availability features and data management services for extreme scale-out, cloud and high-performance computing deployments.

Stockholder Vote Set for August 2009

Sunnyvale, CA, July 6, 2009 -- NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declared NetApp's Registration Statement for its proposed acquisition of Data Domain (NASDAQ:DDUP) effective allowing the transaction to proceed to a stockholder vote. The Data Domain Board of Directors has set a Special Meeting of Data Domain stockholders for August 14, 2009 to consider and vote on the merger. Proxy statements will be mailed to Data Domain's stockholders of record as of June 17th.