January 4, 2010 9:18 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
Fixed-mobile convergence,
IPO,
mergers & acquisitions,
Mitel,
Nortel,
Siemens Enterprise Networks,
Unified CommunicationsUnless you're a Mitel customer or a Canadian, you're probably not all that interested in Mitel's plans for a $230-million initial public offering. However, if the IPO goes...
December 4, 2009 8:09 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
mergers & acquisitions,
Tandberg,
videoconferencingCisco finally managed to win over enough of Tandberg's shareholders to complete its takeover of the enterprise video company. Cisco had stipulated that it would only move ahead with the acquisition if it could gain 90% of Tandberg's stock, apparently because Norwegian law requires all shareholders...
December 3, 2009 10:46 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
mergers & acquisitions,
Tandberg,
videoconferencingDear Tandberg shareholders: Will you or won't you make Cisco the happiest and most powerful videoconferencing vendor in the world?
This acquisition of Tandberg sure has drama, doesn't it? Here it is, early evening on Dec. 3 and there's still no word as to whether Cisco has acquired the requisite...
November 16, 2009 7:23 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
mergers & acquisitions,
Tandberg,
videoconferencingCisco's newly revised $3.41 billion offer for Tandberg represents a total capitulation to the demands of several holdout Tandberg shareholders who were asking for more money.
Cisco...
November 16, 2009 5:15 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
LifeSize,
Tandberg,
telepresence,
videoconferencingLost in the hoopla from last week's news that HP bought 3Com was a much smaller deal in the high definition (HD) videoconferencing market. PC accessory company Logitech has bought LifeSize Communicaitons, a six-year-old...
October 30, 2009 7:28 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
enterprise video,
Polycom,
Tandberg,
videoconferencingBloomberg is reporting that Cisco might walk away from its agreement to buy Tandberg. As we mentioned two weeks ago, A large group of shareholders have
October 15, 2009 4:19 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
Tandberg,
telepresence,
video,
videoconferencingCisco's deal to buy Tandberg could be on ice.
When Cisco and Tandberg agreed to their video marriage two weeks ago, the dowry was set at $3 billion. And the deal was contingent upon...
August 7, 2009 7:41 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
collaboration tools,
Flip camera,
videoDuring this week's Cisco Systems quarterly earnings call, CEO John Chambers revealed that his company recently shipped its first $1-million order of Flip video camerasto an enterprise...
June 18, 2009 9:10 PM
Posted by: WPeterson
Cisco,
Google,
SaaS,
WaveSince I wrote about Google Wave's UC potential, I've been curious as to Cisco's response. After all, as Frost & Sullivan analyst Vanessa Alvarez pointed out, Google and Cisco could be...
