Cisco buys another social-networking firm
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InfoWorld - Cisco Systems is continuing to buy its way into social networking, acquiring some assets of the company that operates Tribe.net while letting the site remain independent.
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Cisco Systems, the biggest vendor in IP (Internet Protocol) networking, is diversifying into social networking.
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Cisco systems announced on Thursday that it has finalized a definitive agreement to acquire privately held BCN Systems. Cisco had been an investor in the Santa Clara, Calif.
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InfoWorld - Cisco Systems, the biggest vendor in IP (Internet Protocol) networking, is diversifying into social networking.
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Cisco Systems today confirmed that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held BCN Systems, a Californian networking software design firm.
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Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., Monday acquired privately held P-Cube Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. P-Cube develops service control platforms, which help service providers
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Networking equipment maker Cisco SystemsÂ added to its growing portfolio of security products on Monday, agreeing to buy Protego NetworksÂ of Sunnyvale, California for $65 million in cash.
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Cisco Systems has sealed an alliance with Fujitsu in a bid to boosts its Japanese market presence. Under the terms of the deal, Fujitsu will act as a reseller for Cisco&#39;s high-end routing systems.
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p2pnet.net News:- Cisco Systems says it&#39;s going to buy new security monitoring and threat management appliance firm Protego Networks for $65 million in cash.
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Cisco Systems announced on Monday plans to buy an IP software start-up for $200 million. The company is acquiring P-Cube for its IP control software that&#39;s designed to make it easier for wireless and wired
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco has completed its acquisition of WebEx Communications, entering the online collaboration services business through a $3.2 billion deal, the company announced Tuesday. Cisco will maintain WebEx's current business model of selling subscriptions for a Web-based service to enterprises that don't want to buy or build a collaboration system of their own, especially small and medium-size organizations. The Santa Clara, California, company is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco, which plans to retain all its employees, said Cisco spokesman John Noh. The acquisition,Â announced March 15, further extends a networking equipment giant that is increasingly positioning itself as a software and services company. It followed buyouts of two social-networking companies, Five Across and Utah Street Networks, and all the technologies will complement each other, Chief Development Officer Charles Giancarlo said in March. The WebEx service lets companies share presentations, applications, and other data online, either asynchronously or in real-time sessions. The buyout will help Cisco compete against Microsoft and other vendors in collaboration and communication, and WebEx technology could also enhance Cisco's Unified Communications portfolio, according to Giancarlo. WebEx also offers a suite of productivity applications under the WebOffice brand, but Cisco doesn't plan to compete against desktop application suites, such as Microsoft'sOffice or Google's Google Apps, he said. The deal closed as expected in Cisco's fiscal fourth quarter. It was the first deal the company has made through a tender offer, in which the would-be acquirer publicly invites shareholders to sell their shares at a certain price at a given time, Cisco's Noh said. More than 90 percent of WebEx shares were tendered. A tender offer generally can be finished more quickly than other types of deals, such as cash purchases and share swaps, and makes it easier to offer attractive terms to employees in order to keep them on board, he said.
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IT management is firmly anchored at number six, with outsourcing, cost control, and process improvement the order of the day. Cisco Systems signed an agreement on Wednesday to acquire network management start-up Jahi Networks for $16 million.
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After proposed acquisition, storage management solution company NeoPath Networks to be rolled into Cisco's data center group.
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Cisco has completed its acquisition of WebEx Communications, entering the online collaboration services business through a $3.2 billion deal, the company announced Tuesday.
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Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems is to buy Perfigo for $74m (Â£40.5m), boosting the company&#39;s efforts to secure network &quot;endpoints&quot; and protect them from worms, viruses and hacking.
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Fourth buy of the year Cisco is continuing its buying spree, paying $135m in cash and options for Reactivity.â¦
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Cisco has reached an agreement to buy P-Cube, a developer of IP control software, in a deal valued at about $200 million. P-Cube&#39;s software is used by broadband service providers to monitor, control and bill for IP services.