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Cisco Raising Money, Maybe After Something Big

Erik Sherman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:11:23 PST

Cisco has clearly been on an acquisition tear. Now an offer of unsecured notes to raise a total of $5 billion raises the question of what company...

Erik Sherman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:34:21 PST

EU regulators have filed a formal objection to Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun. This is exactly the scenario that was most likely to cause an...

Erik Sherman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:46:26 PST

The handset market is seeing a battle of device versus platform. And history suggests that the natural winner will be platform, much to the...

Erik Sherman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:22:02 PST

Chasing down some rumors I heard on Twitter, it seems that while the Droid may be getting some good press, both Motorola and Verizon seem to be...

Erik Sherman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:45:03 PST

The Bilski case -- which could affect business method patents -- is often conflated with the idea of software patents, leading to the conclusion...

Erik Sherman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:50:39 PST

Oracle's refusal to compromise with the EU is endangering its acquisition of Sun -- and putting the latter in danger of destruction.

Erik Sherman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:46:50 PST

To be young, impatient, and wanting to release software. The description sounds like a start-up working out of someone's spare bedroom, but both...

Erik Sherman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:03:09 PST

Sirius XM (SIRI) CEO Mel Karmazin has again tried to strike an upbeat tone at the company's latest earnings announcement. But, again, the business...

Erik Sherman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:41:10 PST

Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants to avoid repeating Microsoft's mistakes. Bad news, Eric: you already did.

Erik Sherman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:59:13 PST

For some time it’s been clear that eBay needed to dump Skype, the VoIP service for which it paid $2.75 billion in an acquisition that made no...