SunGard tops list of bidders for Misys: sources
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U.S. software firms SunGard Data Systems   and Fiserv Inc FISV.O top the list of suitors expected to   submit bids for UK software company Misys by a deadline set for   later this week, sources close to the matter said on Monday.
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Sun MicrosystemsÂ has agreed to purchase Ashburn, Virginia, IT services company SevenSpace, the companies announced Monday. With the purchase, Sun takes a further step away from its traditional focus on supporting only its Solaris operating system platform and beefs up its support for competing operating systems like Windows, HP-UX and AIX.
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Westfield Group, the world&#39;s biggest owner of shopping malls by market value, teamed up with Multiplex Group, an Australian property developer, and David and Simon Reuben to bid for Chelsfield Plc, a UK property developer.
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Linux software company Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) has entered a partnership with Unisys (NYSE: UIS), maker of high-end servers. The alliance will allow Unisys to offer a more tightly integrated server package comprising hardware, software and the services to support it.
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Westfield Group has upped the ante in its expansion plans into the United Kingdom retail market with a $1.48 billion cash bid to buy out Duelguide plc, the company which owns retail property group Chelsfield plc.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Japanâs second largest bank, today put forward a Â¥3,200 billion ($29 billion) takeover bid for United Financial Group (UFJ), the countryâs fourth biggest lender, in an effort to regain initiative in its bidding
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Federated Department Stores Inc.  is in preliminary talks to buy rival May Department Stores Co. , the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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BALTIMORE -- After Landmark Communications announced that it is considering selling its businesses, Baltimore Sun Co. officials are exploring a bid for Landmark papers in nearby Anne Arundel and Carroll counties, the Baltimore Sun reported Saturday.
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The Atex Group, a British maker of publishing software, agreed to buy the Unisys CorporationÂs media unit, another publisher of software, for undisclosed terms. Atex, based in Reading, England, raised more than $50 million for the purchase and for the costs of integrating the businesses. The media unit makes software that helps publishers manage production tasks and news agency reports. The acquisition may increase AtexÂs newspaper clients by almost half. Unisys, based in Blue Bell, Pa., is selling the unit to focus on computers and consulting services.
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Identity and access managed Sun Microsystems has become the latest infrastructure provider to express its love for smaller software partners in the form of an acquisition.â¦
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Retail group Metoz Holdings on Monday announced that Metcash Australia had made an offer to buy out all the issued shares of Metoz at 2.65 rand a share.
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ServiceMaster Co. , the U.S. lawncare company that put itself up for sale last year, is drawing interest from at least two buyout groups that may bid more than $4 billion, four people with knowledge of the discussions said, according to a report on Bloomberg News.
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By Larry Rulison, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec. 8--HALFMOON -- A potential financing deal between DayStar  Technologies Inc. and a New York City investment firm appears to have fallen  through in the past week.
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Global shopping mall owner Westfield Group, Australian developer Multiplex Group and Britain&#39;s Reuben brothers have launched a planned 585 million pounds bid for Duelguide, owner of the UK property firm Chelsfield.
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CristÃ³bal Conde, SunGardâs president and chief executive officer, said, âThis is great news for our stockholders, customers and employees.
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SunGard, which provides software and services to top financial companies, will spin off its disaster data recovery business into a separate publicly traded company through a tax-free distribution of shares, according to executives.
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InfoWorld - IT distributor Agilysys Inc. continued its strategy of growing by acquisition, announcing plans to buy Innovativ Systems Design Inc., a major U.S. reseller of Sun Microsystems Inc.&#39;s servers and storage products.