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Amdocs Acquisition of Jacobs Rimell will Increase its Leadership in Customer Experience Systems for the Broadband Cable Industry

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Commitment to broadband cable market underscored and Operations Support
Systems (OSS) service fulfillment offering expands with acquisition

Amdocs announced it acquired Jacobs Rimell, Ltd. (Jacobs Rimell) for approximately $45 million in cash, net of cash on hand, subject to post-closing adjustments. With this acquisition, Amdocs continues to execute on its strategy of being the leader in customer experience systems for the broadband cable industry and the OSS market. [Read more…]

Ariston Global Acquires Interactive Enterprise

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Ariston Global, L.L.C., which focuses on the acquisition and growth of communication solution providers, has completed the purchase of the assets of privately-held The Interactive Enterprise Ltd., an innovator in providing service activation and provisioning solutions for broadband operators. [Read more…]

VoluBill to Acquire Intec DCP Assets from Intec Telecom Systems

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VoluBill, a leading supplier of real-time charging, control and monitoring applications for VoIP, data, messaging and content services, has signed an agreement to purchase assets relating to the Dynamic Charging Platform (DCP) product business from Intec Telecom Systems PLC. [Read more…]

VoluBill Raises 10.5 Million Euros to Fund Aggressive Growth Strategy

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VoluBill, a leading independent supplier of “on the network” Mobile Data charging and control solutions, has successfully raised 10.5 million Euros in venture capital funding. XAnge Private Equity led the round, which included all existing investors; Sofinnova Partners, Sofinnova Ventures, Seventure, DVCG and Argo Capital. [Read more…]

NetScout Acquires Network General

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NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT), an industry pacesetter for advanced network and service assurance solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Network General Corporation, in a combined cash, stock, and debt transaction currently valued at approximately $205 million. The acquisition, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, is expected to be completed by early November. Network General employees will become NetScout employees, and the newly combined entity will be headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts. [Read more…]

ARRIS Group Acquires C-COR

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ARRIS Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS) and C-COR Incorporated (Nasdaq: CCBL) told OSS News Review today that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby ARRIS will acquire C-COR for a purchase price of approximately $730 million in a mix of cash and ARRIS stock. With over 250 customers around the world, the companies collectively reported revenues of over $1.2 billion over the past twelve months and the merged company will be the largest pure-play provider of equipment and solutions to the cable industry. [Read more…]

Aepona and Appium to Merge

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Aepona, a global provider of telecoms software products and services headquartered in Belfast, United Kingdom and Appium, a leading technology vendor offering Telecom Application Server and Service Creation Environment products based in Malmö, Sweden, will merge to create the world’s leading independent vendor for the Telecom Service Layer. [Read more…]

Tangoe and TRAQ Wireless Merge

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Tangoe, Inc. a leading provider of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) solutions and TRAQ Wireless, Inc., a leading provider of Mobile Lifecycle Management Solutions, have completed a merger of the two companies. Operating under the name Tangoe, Inc., the new organization provides technology-based software and service solutions that enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their voice, data, and wireless communications resources. [Read more…]

MACH to Acquire Cibernet

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MACH, a leading global clearing and settlement partner for mobile based transactions, has has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire CB Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Cibernet; a leading mobile roaming, clearing and business solutions provider. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the first half of 2007. Luxembourg-based MACH is a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. [Read more…]

IBM Completes Acquisition of Vallent

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has completed its acquisition of Vallent Corporation, a privately held software company based in Bellevue, Washington with more than 400 employees. IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vallent on November 28, 2006. Vallent’s operations will be integrated into the IBM Software Group’s Tivoli Software unit. [Read more…]

Kirusa Acquires HeyAnita Intellectual Property Assets

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Kirusa, a leading developer of value added mobile services, has acquired all of the intellectual property assets of US-based HeyAnita Inc., including all software, patent applications, and trademarks. The purchased software, which includes the Rapid Messaging Sevice (RMS) application, HeyAnita’s variant of Voice SMS, further consolidates Kirusa’s leadership in Voice SMS. [Read more…]

JDSU to Acquire Casabyte

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JDSU has signed an agreement to purchase Casabyte Inc., a provider of service quality monitoring solutions for mobile network operators. JDSU is a provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers. JDSU expects to complete the acquisition of Casabyte in the current fiscal third quarter ending March 31, 2007. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. [Read more…]

Amdocs to Acquire SigValue Technologies

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Amdocs (NYSE: DOX – News), a leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), has signed an agreement to acquire SigValue Technologies, Inc. (SigValue), a provider of an integrated billing, customer care, and service control platform designed for service providers in high-growth emerging markets around the world. Amdocs currently owns 14% of SigValue’s outstanding capital stock. Under the terms of the agreement, Amdocs will acquire all of SigValue’s remaining share capital for approximately $54 million in cash, net of cash on hand. [Read more…]

HickoryTech Sells Enterprise Solutions Subsidiary to Skyview Capital

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HickoryTech Corporation (NASDAQ: HTCO) recently entered into an agreement to sell its Enterprise Solutions subsidiary, based in Roseville, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, to Skyview Capital, LLC, a privately held investment firm based in Los Angeles. Terms were not disclosed. The Enterprise Solutions subsidiary, formally known as Collins Communication Systems Company, provided IP Telephony, call center management and data network solutions, primarily through Nortel hardware solutions. [Read more…]

CyberTel Capital Corporation to Acquire Global Vision Telecom

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CyberTel Capital Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: CBCL – News), has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to acquire the switching and billing business from Global Vision Telecom, Inc. (“GVT”). GVT was started by telecom veterans to provide an improved platform for managing long distance and other types of calling services. [Read more…]

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