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Digital Realty Buys Fully Leased Facility in Minnesota
April 2nd, 2013 : Jason VergeDigital Realty Trust continues its initiative to buy fully-lease income properties and expand its portfolio with a facility in suburban Minnesota.The deal continues Digital Realty’s initiative to buy fully-leased income properties, which generate revenue through rent from existing tenants, and an overall growing trend of sale-leasebacks. Read More
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Cisco, Oracle Go Shopping, Announce Acquisitions
March 26th, 2013 : John RathIt's already been a busy year for deals, and Monday saw a flurry of deal announcements in the tech sector. The action was headed by two enterprise IT titans and frequent acquirers - Cisco and Oracle. Read More
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Deal News: Oracle Acquires Acme Packet
February 5th, 2013 : John RathOracle (ORCL) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Acme Packet (APKT), a global provider of session border control technology, for approximately $1.7 billion. Plus acquisition news from IBM, Twitter and The 451 Group. Read More
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VC Funding Slipped in 2012, OnApp Kicks Off 2013
January 21st, 2013 : John RathIn the same week that CB Insights reported that venture capital activity had decreased slightly in 2012, OnApp, Survey Monkey, Zettaset and InsideSales.com raised money to further their cause. Capital Funding falls $28.3 billion CB Insights released a report last week, noting that across 3,267 deals completed in 2012 the $28.3 billion invested was down [...] Read More
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Cisco To Acquire Meraki For $1.2 Billion
November 20th, 2012 : John RathCisco (CSCO) announced its intent to acquire privately held cloud networking company Meraki for $1.2 billion. San Francisco-based Meraki was founded in 2006 by MIT PhD candidates, and was funded by Sequoia Capital and Google. Read More
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Acquisition News: Salesforce.com, Google, Oracle, EMC
June 6th, 2012 : John RathAcquisition news in the tech and social media industries includes: Salesforce.com and Oracle buying social media intelligence; EMC acquiring performance management and Google gains productivity software with mobile capability. Read More
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Menlo Equities Buys Irvine Data Center
January 16th, 2012 : Rich MillerReal estate investor Menlo Equities has purchased a data center in Irvine, California as part of a larger deal to acquire the Irvine Crossings project. Read More
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$12 Billion in Data Center M&A in 2011
January 9th, 2012 : Rich MillerMergers and acquisition activity in the data center sector generated more than $12.3 billion in deal values globally in 2011, according to an analysis by the UK consulting firm BroadGroup. Read More
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Virogen Says it May Buy Data Center Provider
January 4th, 2012 : Rich MillerVirogen has issued two press releases on successive days discussing its plans to acquire a company operating four data centers in the southeast region of the United States. Read More
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