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eBay Gets Big Payoff from PayPal

Posted Jan 21st 2010 9:00AM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, eBay (EBAY)

While eBay (EBAY) has had a mixed record with M&A, there is no doubt that the company did pull off one of the best deals in Internet history: the purchase of PayPal (I included it in my recent piece entitled "The Best M&A Deals of the Decade").

Just how good? In eBay's latest quarterly report released Wednesday after the bell, PayPal was the growth driver as the company reported a 16% jump in revenues to $2.4 billion. Net income came to $1.4 billion, which was a nice increase from the $367 million in the same period a year ago. Taking out one-time items, the earnings were 44 cents per share. The consensus was 40 cents per share.

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Cisco's tidal wave of deals continues

Posted Apr 10th 2009 11:00AM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Deals, Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Oracle Corp (ORCL)

With billions in the bank and a broad technology platform, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has been fairly clear that a big priority is M&A. And this week, we got another deal: the $105 million purchase of Tidal Software.

Tidal develops sophisticated data center software solutions -- helping to manage diverse applications, such as from Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), SAP (NYSE: SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).

Of course, Tidal's business is a nice complement for Cisco, which is getting aggressive in the server market.