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News to know: SAP-Sybase, Office 2010, Chrome OS, Blackberry

ZDNet (blog) - Sam Diaz - 14 May, 2010
Thoughts on Sybase-SAP, as well as Office 2010. mixed with some rumors about tablets - one running Chrome OS and the ...

What Sybase customers should expect from SAP

BusinessWeek - Chris Kanaracus - 14 May, 2010
Sybase users and partners are wondering how the company's technologies will fare under the pending ownership of SAP, but some of the ...

When Sybase met SAP

ZDNet UK (blog) - Adrian Bridgwater - 14 May, 2010
This blog is intended to provoke discussion and exchange between like minded software application developers, ...

SAP faces tough challenges in executing on Sybase plan

BusinessWeek - John Cox - 14 May, 2010
SAP's planned acquisition of Sybase reads like a World War I battle plan: replete with confident, assured references to "synergy" and objectives ...

SAP signals start of 'stack wars'

Financial Times - Maija Palmer, Daniel Schäfer - 14 May, 2010
Ever since SAP reported a 28 per cent fall in annual software sales and dismissed chief executive ...

Cisco loses ground despite exceeding estimates

Financial Times - Masa Serdarevic - 14 May, 2010
US stock prices slid lower yesterday following a rally that has seen the main indices rise at least 5 per cent since the ...

German group adopts an American operating system

Financial Times - Paul Betts - 14 May, 2010
Hasso Plattner may be taking a back seat advisory role these days as SAP's supervisory board chairman. But the co-founder of Germany's ...

SAP Paying a Steep Price for Sybase

Toronto Star - Sunit Gogia - 14 May, 2010
SAP's SAP proposed $5.8 billion acquisition of Sybase will bring interesting technological capabilities and potential market ...

Sybase Holders Get The Big Payday

Forbes - 14 May, 2010
Shares of Sybase rose today as SAP agreed to buy the company for $5.8 billion. The German software maker rushed to buy Sybase ahead of rival Oracle in an ...

Tech Ticker

San Jose Mercury News - Frank Michael Russell - 14 May, 2010
Sybase stock jumped $8.80, or 14.4 percent, to $64.22 Thursday after German software maker SAP said it would pay $65 a share, or about $5.8 billion, ...

SAP, Other Tech Firms Vie to Add Product Lines

Wall Street Journal - Ben Worthen - 14 May, 2010
SAP AG's $5.8 billion deal for Sybase Inc. is the latest in a series of acquisitions both big and small that have one common motivation: ...

SAP Is A Buyer But Don't Buy It

Forbes - Tom Reese, Paul Rubillo - 14 May, 2010
The acquisition of Sybase is a big show of confidence by management but we'd stay on the sidelines. German enterprise software company SAP ( SAP - news ...

Sybase to gain more than SAP in India

Business Standard - Bibhu Ranjan Mishra - 14 May, 2010
The acquisition of Sybase by enterprise software product company SAP will benefit the former the most, as the company which has a relatively small presence ...

SAP Snaps Up Sybase

Forbes - 14 May, 2010
Germany's SAP said late Wednesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Sybase for a total value of $5.8 billion. ...

SAP acquires Sybase for $5.8bn

Times of India - 14 May, 2010
BANGALORE: SAP's $5.8-billion acquisition of Sybase is designed primarily to enable the former to offer its business applications for people on the move. ...

SAP Must Prove Sybase Synergies

InformationWeek - Doug Henschen - 14 May, 2010
With acquisitions being a growth engine for most large technology vendors these days, the pressure is on SAP to buy. ...

SAP Pays Dearly With $5.8 Billion Sybase Purchase

ABC News - Nicola Leske, Jim Finkle - 14 May, 2010
FRANKFURT/BOSTON (Reuters) - SAP AG's planned purchase of Sybase Inc for $5.8 billion to move ahead of arch rival Oracle Corp ...

US STOCKS-Wall St drops after recent gains, weak jobless data

Reuters - Ryan Vlastelica, Jan Paschal - 14 May, 2010
NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - US stocks fell on Thursday, following the best three-day run in 10 months as lackluster jobless data ...

Robbins Umeda LLP Announces an Investigation of the Acquisition of Sybase, Inc ...

MarketWatch (press release) - 14 May, 2010
SAN DIEGO, May 13, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Robbins Umeda LLP has commenced an investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of ...

SAP's Sybase Deal Aids Competition; Doubts On Price

Wall Street Journal - 14 May, 2010
FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Business-software company SAP AG (SAP) Wednesday agreed to buy Sybase Inc. (SY) of the US in a $5.8 billion all-cash deal that will ...

SAP Smart To Snare Sybase's Mobile Mojo

InformationWeek (blog) - Alexander Wolfe - 14 May, 2010
What SAP realized a little over a year ago is that Sybase is one those pockets, and it's a big one. In March, 2009, SAP signed up Sybase to help put SAP's ...

SAP Draws Mixed Reviews For Sybase Acquisition >SAP

Wall Street Journal - John Letzing - 14 May, 2010
SAP AG (SAP, SAP.XE) drew mixed reviews from Wall Street analysts Thursday for the company's plan to purchase business software vendor ...

SAP attempts a comeback Short-term memory gain

Economist - 14 May, 2010
WHEN Bill McDermott and Jim Hageman Snabe jointly took the helm at SAP in February they promised to be much “bolder”. The troubled German software giant ...

SAP becomes Oracle East

ZDNet (blog) - Joe McKendrick - 14 May, 2010
SAP becomes a provider with an ERP-middleware-database-development tools stack, essentially becoming another ...

US HOT STOCKS: Sybase, Cisco, Amedisys, Whole Foods, Supertex

Wall Street Journal - 14 May, 2010
US stocks traded lower Thursday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 17 points to 10880, the S&P 500 dropped 3 points to 1169 and the Nasdaq Composite ...

US STOCKS-Wall St flat after jobless data, tech gains

Reuters - Leah Schnurr, Ryan Vlastelica - 14 May, 2010
NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - US stocks were little changed on Thursday as gains in technology shares tempered lackluster jobless data that ...

SAP bets big on mobile with Sybase acquisition

BusinessWeek - James Niccolai - 14 May, 2010
With its US$5.8 billion purchase of Sybase announced Wednesday, SAP is placing a big bet that mobile business applications are the way of ...

Playing in Larry's sandbox

Reuters UK (blog) - 14 May, 2010
Having spent more than $42 billion to buy about 60 companies, Larry Ellison's Oracle has set something of a daunting standard for merger activity in the ...

SAP to buy Sybase for $5.8 billion

Computerworld (blog) - 14 May, 2010
In today's podcast: SAP to buy Sybase for $5.8 billion; HTC hits Apple with ITC patent suit; and netbooks coming based on dual-core Atoms. ...

US STOCKS-Wall St set to dip after jobs data tempers M&A

Reuters - Leah Schnurr, Ryan Vlastelica - 14 May, 2010
NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Wall Street was set for a slightly lower open on Thursday as a listless report on jobless claims offset cheer ...

 

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