This is the 9th in a series of blog posts under the main headline “Ready for 2012?” It is addressing the #1 headache of any growing Independent Software Vendor: How to predict, budget and meet [...]

  Orion Health (Auckland, New Zealand) will acquire Microsoft’s HIS and RIS/PACS assets to address needs of Asia Pacific hospital market; Orion Health and Microsoft collaborate to provide [...]

SAP AG (Waldorf, Germany) today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011. For the 7th consecutive quarter SAP reported double-digit growth in Non-IFRS [...]

  Tradeshift (Copenhagen, Denmark) has announced a round of $17 million in funding led by ru-Net and Kite Ventures. The round is also supported by existing investor Notion Capital, which [...]

Wherever I go the lack of “funding (willing to take a risk)” = “Venture Capital” always seems to be a big issue. Why? What’s wrong with starting a business, making [...]

Oracle (Redwood City, CA, USA) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies, Inc. (Bozeman, MT, USA) a provider of cloud-based customer service, for $43.00 [...]

  Lexmark International (Lexington, KY, USA) has announced the acquisition of Pallas Athena (Apeldoorn, The Netherlands) in a cash transaction, valued at approximately $50.2 million. Upon [...]

For the first three quarters of 2011, venture capitalists invested $21.2 billion into 2,725 deals, representing 20 percent more dollars and three percent more deals as the first three quarters of [...]

This is the 8th in a series of blog posts under the main headline “Ready for 2012?” It is addressing the #1 headache of any growing Independent Software Vendor: How to predict, budget and meet [...]

  Intel (Santa Clara, CA, USA) has agreed to acquire Telmap (Tel Aviv, Israel), a maker of mobile navigation software. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but according to The New York [...]