... ) is acquiring privately held Scansafe. Scansafe offers web and message security as a service. Cisco joins privately held Barracuda Networks (recently acquired Purewire), Symantec (NASDAQ: ... networking by eliminating the need to backhaul web connections through the enterprise security gateway. Cisco’s planned integration of Scansafe with its Ironport product line has the potential to provide ...

... Switzerland, Logitech is probably eating a plate of delicious Emmenthal, and feeling pretty damn pleased with its most recent, relatively cheap, acquisition of LifeSize. This comes towards the end of a fairly torrid week for Cisco. On Monday it announced a raft of new products, but late Tuesday night news came out ...

... 7.90 U.S. dollars per share acquisition of 3Com, the price closing price higher ... Bain Capital tried to 2.2 billion acquisition of 3Com, but that it had failed to obtain U.S. government ... Hewlett-Packard 3Com’s fold, with Cisco’s competition will start heating up. Therefore, 3Com ... seat. The following HP’s acquisition of 3Com, then began to enter Cisco’s Chen, the will work ...

... channels. "We see HP's acquisition as primarily a response to Cisco's converged network ... equipment," Trebnick says, spelling out some specifics, with Cisco being the main target with the most to lose by the new HP. She says it seems logical ... equipment in-house. Near-term, though, the deal could be good for Cisco as well as Juniper and Brocade because integrating 3Com into HP ...

... $3.4 billion acquisition of video networking supplier Tandberg. A number of industry reports predicted that Cisco probably would not have have gotten approval for the deal until early 2010. As reported in FierceTelecom' ... bid was not high enough. And after threatening to scrap the deal altogether, Cisco decided it was worth it to raise the bid to $3.4 billion to ...

... planned acquisition of video conferencing giant Tandberg will either get the green light or get shut down this week. Cisco had placed a condition on the $3.4 billion deal, requiring that it gain control of 90 percent of shares before it will complete the acquisition. But that condition had not yet been met early in the week. - Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) will announce Dec. 3 ...

... Ethernet creator Robert Metcalfe co-founded the company. The acquisition will fill out HP's data center ... HP-Cisco battle spreads to China with 3Com deal Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of ... & 3Com, My Two Cents Rumors of a networking acquisition have been flying around HP for years -- I've heard ...

... a line in the sand. HP had long been one of Cisco’s biggest resellers until Cisco moved into HP’s data center server space earlier this year when it introduced the Unified Computing System. Since Cisco made the clear decision to compete against HP in the server ... . HP and its channel partners are pushing ProCurve gear over Cisco, and the game is on. To read the full article, click here:

... $400m (£240m) to tempt 90 per cent of Tandberg shareholders to give up their shares, a legal requirement for acquisition. The quest to acquire Tandberg underlines the importance to Cisco of videoconferencing and telepresence technology. Having a mid-market offering would allow it to offer videoconferencing and telepresence technology to ...

... company’s shareholders. The company felt as well that “no acquisition should be pursued or completed if it runs counter to the broader ... share price on the day before news of a possible acquisition broke. But it did so anyway. This morning, Cisco (CSCO) raised its bid ... 8230;final price for this transaction,” Cisco said in a statement. “If the offeror does not achieve the desired ...

... ISO certifications, sustainability initiatives, and risk analysis. While this isn’t an acquisition, this latest news continues ... investments and shopping spree. With deep pockets, Cisco has acquired a number of enterprise-focused companies ... ScanSafe, Starent Networks, and Tandberg. While Cisco doesn’t seem to be sniffing around for an acquisition of Aravo yet, it wouldn’t surprise ...

... . The announcement, which came via a filing with the Oslo stock exchange, follows Cisco’s move last month to up its offer to $3.4 ... the middle market, making the company a good fit for Cisco and its high-end Telepresence gear. The deal must ... get approval from the U.S. Department of Justice, though, which is reviewing the potential acquisition over concerns about potential competitive effects.

... 2007, or Outlook 2010 as rich client Cisco-provided web browser client also available Outlook ... mailbox: 5GB and 25GB Based on PostPath acquisition Good anti-spam and anti-virus ... included (result of IronPort acquisition) Support for ActiveSync, Blackberry Plans are underway to provide a rich ... give Microsoft any grief. We are thus excited by the launch of Cisco WebEx Mail. It has real potential to give ...

... management and operation. Using technology gained through the acquisition of Jabber, Cisco today announced it has integrated the XMPP ... information to make faster business decisions. Cisco offers customers new medianet-ready devices ... locate and rapidly connect with the best available experts and information they need. Cisco Breaks Down Barriers to Business-to-Business Collaboration ...

... benefits of video conferencing. Yesterday, Cisco System Inc. (CSCO) raised its acquisition price to $3.41 billion for ... videoconferencing product maker in the world with around 35% market share. Cisco itself is a developer of high-end videoconferencing solutions, which ... acquire 3Com Corp. (COMS) for $2.7 billion. This acquisition will strengthen Hewlett-Packard’s videoconferencing solutions beside ...