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	<title>Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds</title>
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		<title>Cisco Decides to Extend Offer For Tandberg</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/cisco-decides-to-extend-offer-for-tandberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now sooner than I had posted that we were awaiting Cisco&#8217;s decision on its expiring bid for Tandberg than news arrived that Cisco has chosen to extend the existing offer until November 18.
Cisco has not modified the proposal, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it won&#8217;t do so before this story runs its course. 
Posted in Cisco, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1965&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awaiting Cisco&#8217;s Tandberg Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now I thought we would know how Cisco intends to proceed with its stalled offer to acquire Tandberg. 
So far, though, Cisco has made no statement on the matter, even though today is the deadline for Cisco to allow the offer to expire or to extend or modify it. 
Posted in Cisco, M&#38;A, Tandberg, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1963&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tandberg Shareholder Dissent Grows as Cisco Ponders Options</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/tandberg-shareholder-dissent-grows-as-cisco-ponders-options/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As another group of Tandberg shareholders steps forward to demand a sweetened bid from Cisco, the networking giant will have a difficult decision to make before Monday, when the deadline expires on its current offer to acquire the Norway-based videoconferencing-systems vendor for $3 billion. 
To close the deal, Cisco needs 90 percent of Tandberg&#8217;s outstanding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1957&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing the Skype Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the battle for Skype were a television series, it would have been equal parts soap opera and suspense thriller. It nearly segued into courtroom drama, but it wouldn&#8217;t have been a good one, likely way too one-sided for engrossing fare.
In the end, it was the specter of a courtroom rout that got the principals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1955&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Critiquing RIM Takeover Rumors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Research In Motion&#8217;s share price gradually slides, rumors have begun to percolate about the company becoming an acquisition target. 
In a piece over at the Deal.com, Microsoft and HP are mentioned as potential RIM acquirers, but I&#8217;m not seeing it. 
An acquisition of RIM would be difficult for Microsoft to integrate, technologically and organizationally. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1953&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IDG Report Says Blue Coat to Lay Off 20 Percent of Staff</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/idg-report-says-blue-coat-to-lay-off-20-percent-of-staff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though Blue Coat Systems announced earlier today in a press release that it would effect a &#8220;net reduction in headcount of approximately 10 percent,&#8221; equating to about 145 to 150 personnel, Robert McMillan of IDG News Service is reporting that Blue Coat will lay off about 20 percent of its staff. 
Pursuant to McMillan&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1951&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skype Settlement Said to be Imminent</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/skype-settlement-said-to-be-imminent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although a settlement seems to be in place &#8212; with Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis receiving a 10-percent equity stake in Skype, plus two board seats, and with Index Ventures and Mike Volpi getting banished from the deal &#8212; a formal announcement including all the pertinent details has yet to be delivered by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1949&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Network World Reprises Volpi&#8217;s Medley of Email Hits</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/network-world-reprises-volpis-medley-of-email-hits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who cannot get enough of the intrigue, scheming, and shenanigans surrounding the boardroom-to-courtroom-to-boardoom battle for the ownership of Skype, Brad Reese at Network World reproduces a medley of Michael Volpi&#8217;s greatest email hits.
Thrill to Volpi&#8217;s message about &#8220;getting the father of SIP to jump ship&#8221; from Cisco. Enjoy his follow-up message to Egon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1947&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Coat Shifts Development to India in Significant Restructuring</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/blue-coat-shifts-development-to-india-in-significant-restructuring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A market leader in WAN optimization, where its primary adversaries are Riverbed and Cisco, Blue Coat Systems dropped a three-pronged announcement today. 
One thread in the announcement was Blue Coat&#8217;s confirmation that net revenue for its second fiscal quarter, which ended October 31, tracked toward the high end of its previous guidance of $116 to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1941&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regardless of Tandberg Resolution, Cisco&#8217;s M&amp;A Reputation Dented</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/regardless-of-tandberg-resolution-ciscos-ma-reputation-dented/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Cisco thought it could acquire Tandberg with the $3-billion all-cash proposal it has on the table, the networking giant&#8217;s braintrust might want to think again. 
To close the deal, Cisco needed 90 percent of Tandberg&#8217;s shares to be tendered at the offer price of 153.50 Norwegian crowns per share. Almost from the outset, just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1929&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Threatens &#8220;War&#8221; Against EC Regulators</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/oracles-threatens-war-against-ec-regulators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote earlier today that push was coming to shove in the standoff between the European Commission (EC) and Oracle regarding the former&#8217;s in-depth review of the latter&#8217;s pending $7.4-billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Perhaps I understated matters.
If a report by Paul Meller of IDG News Service is accurate, Oracle is preparing to take the battle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1921&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Conflicted Parents, NSN Reportedly Considering Nortel MEN Bid</title>
		<link>http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/despite-conflicted-parents-nsn-reportedly-considering-nortel-men-bid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint ventures, by their very nature, are complicated beasts. Even when the parent companies get along and are relatively aligned in their strategic directions, differences arise. 
Sometimes joint ventures experience mild personality disorders resulting from the conflicting or diverging needs of the parents. Occasionally, though, when the discrepancies between parent companies are pronounced, the joint [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1905&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Latest Layoffs Take It Beyond Initial Targets for 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle-based TechFlash last night got wind of impending layoffs at Microsoft, and those were confirmed today by reports at paidContent.org and elsewhere. 
In the latest purge, Microsoft is cutting about 800 jobs. In January, in response to decreasing sales and profits, the company announced it would shed 5,000 positions. Although the latest cuts are said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1903&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Push Coming to Shove in Oracle-EC Standoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Oracle and the European Commission continue to square off over the former&#8217;s pending $7.4-billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the  eventual outcome remains in doubt even as the respective positions of the principals become unambiguous. 
With the Financial Times reporting yesterday that Oracle is braced for a formal objection from Brussels to its planned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1901&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco Might Face Squeeze, but It&#8217;s Beaten Back Competition Before</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Oltsik, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), has authored a provocative piece at Network World on what he calls &#8220;the Cisco squeeze,&#8221; a market phenomenon in which the networking giant finds itself under siege on three separate fronts. 
I encourage you to read Oltsik&#8217;s commentary and come to your own conclusions. That said, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nerdtwilight.wordpress.com&blog=275482&post=1897&subd=nerdtwilight&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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