Mergers

  • Day 2 – Post M.Y.M.A. (Microsoft/Yahoo Merger Announcement)
    Posted by on February 4th, 2008 at 2:28 pm, Comments: No comments yet

    M.Y.M.A is a pain in the ass. All we know one more trading day later is people are convinced this deal will happen, happen higher [...]

  • Software…Continues to be 'The Place'
    Posted by on November 12th, 2007 at 7:33 am, Comments: 1 comment

    Cognos is being taken out by IBM at a nice premium. It looks like somebody leaked this last month. I blogged it and I should [...]

  • CHINAmerica…Brought to you By a Weak Dollar
    Posted by on October 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 pm, Comments: 1 comment

    It’s here! A weak dollar just makes the $1 billion Bear Stearns Investment from Citic a steal. The sound bites from James Cayne (last bank [...]

  • Eating Crow on Icahn and BEAS…Courtesy of AssHat Fly!
    Posted by on October 13th, 2007 at 6:47 am, Comments: 3 comments

    Last week I wrote a post about how ‘HOT’ Software was going to get after the SAP purchase of Business Objects . I named some [...]

  • Buyouts are BACK…SAP buying Business Objects
    Posted by on October 7th, 2007 at 7:46 pm, Comments: 13 comments

    So SAP is buying Business Objects. Hooray for us stupid bulls :) . Now we know why tech is strong and won’t dip. Look for [...]

  • Mergers…I Miss YOU
    Posted by on September 5th, 2007 at 6:12 am, Comments: 1 comment

    It was too good to last I know…I mean mergers are always penciled out by the noodlenecks to be accretive, fantastic for all, 1+1=3. But [...]

  • Gooit, GooTrade and Apple/Oakley
    Posted by on March 16th, 2007 at 2:06 pm, Comments: No comments yet

    The always controversial Nicholas Carr has a good spec post on why Google should buy Intuit . Must read. I love this kind of open [...]

  • Satellite Radio….finally on Wallstrip
    Posted by on February 21st, 2007 at 9:43 pm, Comments: 1 comment

    There is no reason to cover these obliterated stocks other than “The DEAL”. First their was “The DONALD“. This one has way more hair on [...]

  • Possible Mergers…
    Posted by on January 21st, 2007 at 3:14 pm, Comments: 5 comments

    Of all people…Rose sent me these :) . Way to go Rose. Add your own ideas to the comments. Investment Tips for 2007: For all [...]

  • Mergers – AT&T's Circle of Life
    Posted by on January 21st, 2007 at 12:36 am, Comments: No comments yet

    A great post with clips and links from Michael Parekh. PS – Mergers are getting bigger and happening more often these days. I don’t expect [...]

  • Merger Monday and Overstock is DEAD
    Posted by on November 6th, 2006 at 7:48 am, Comments: No comments yet

    I am not one for owning BioTech stocks. Just never been comfortable with their volaitility. The drug companies look very comfoortable doing it and Abbot’s [...]

  • As I suspected, there were definate leaks in the recent Gold merger
    Posted by on September 6th, 2006 at 12:49 am, Comments: No comments yet

    On August 31st, I wrote that that Glamis/Goldcorp merger was a stinky leakfest . The New York Post confirms my thinking . I hate this [...]

  • Gold Merger – This was old news for some people. Investigations should follow.
    Posted by on August 31st, 2006 at 6:25 pm, Comments: 1 comment

    Since gold peaked at $720 a few months back, the stocks have been lifeless. Today, GoldCorp made a bid for Glamis Gold. Head over to [...]

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