Private equity firms flirt with 3Com
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Money men gone fishing Rumor has it that private equity firms are interested in taking born-again telecom equipment maker 3Com off the market.â¦
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Think like a private equity investor, but think for yourself.
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Three private equity firms announced they were considering a bid for J Sainsbury, Britainâs third-largest supermarket group.
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While the combined company makes a formidable No.3 player in the wireless market, it may be hard pressed to match the firepower of its larger rivals.
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The hardware networking company is trying to break out of the doldrums.
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Are Private equity firms profiting from their own overreaching?
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Diversification means different things to different companies.
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3Com said it has withdrawn a $2.2 billion offer for the network equipment maker from consideration by a security regulator, marking the potential demise of yet another private equity deal.
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3M is among a small group of companies doing well domestically and internationally.
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The Texas Pacific Group is demonstrating how private equity financiers have become catalysts in reshaping business in Europe.
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The Motley Fool - Leverage buyouts (LBOs) -- in which management borrows large amounts of money to buy a company and take it private -- have traditionally been for brick-and-mortar companies. But with billions flowing into private equity firms, they're are now targeting software companies as well. The latest: the $1.3 billion LBO of enterprise software developer Intergraph (Nasdaq: INGR - News). However, given the deal's valuation, there may be more bidders coming to the table.
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Europe has been slow to adopt 3G mobile-phone services, and now the opportunity for cashing in may have passed. A new Wi-Fi design from a British company threatens to cut away the ground 3G has gained. By Wendy Grossman.
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3Com is the latest networking company to partner with a wireless LAN switching start-up. 3Com said Monday it will begin reselling a version of the Mobility Exchange Switch and management software from Trapeze Networks under the 3Com brand later this year.
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Reaching the TippingPoint 3Com stock rose on Wednesday after private equity firm Bain Capital said it was prepared to make concessions to US legislators over its proposed buyout of the networking equipment firm.â¦
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A private equity firm buys its medical-imaging division.
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Software makers are partnering with third-party wireless applications providers to develop their mobile systems
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The deal creates the third-largest company in the wireless telephone industry, but its competition is much larger.