M&A report--June 2006.BUSNESS SERVICES Seller: AMS AMS - Andrew Message System Response (Paramount) Business: Provides direct marketing services Buyer: World Marketing Inc. (Omaha) Deal Value: ND Seller: Burdick Engineering Co. Inc. (Lakewood, CO) Business: Provides land surveying services Buyer: Mollenhauer Group (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Cal Snap & Tab Corp. (Industry) Business: Provides printing services Buyer: Wright Business Forms Inc. (Broadview, IL) Deal Value: ND Seller: Copyright Promotions Group Plc (London) Business: Provides brand licensing services Buyer: DIC DIC diffuse intravascular coagulation; disseminated intravascular coagulation. DIC abbr. disseminated intravascular coagulation Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) Entertainment Holdings Inc. (Burbank) Deal Value: $7 to $15.6 Million Seller: ESP (1) (Enhanced Service Provider) An organization that adds value to basic telephone service by offering such features as call-forwarding, call-detailing and protocol conversion. Group LLC (Arlington, VA) Business: Provides security solution to share sensitive information Buyer: NC4 Inc. (El Segundo) Deal Value: ND Seller: Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Brokers Inc. (Sherman Oaks) Business: Provides insurance Buyer: Hull & Co. Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale), a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BRO) (Daytona Beach) Deal Value: ND Seller: Kaplan & Associates (Calabasas) Business: Provides strategic communication services Buyer: CarryOn car·ry·on adj. Small or compact enough to be carried aboard and stowed on an airplane, train, or bus by a passenger: carryon luggage. n. A carryon bag, suitcase, or other item. Communication Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Lawrence B. Long Insurance Services Inc. (dba CPS Sacramento) (Sacramento) Business: Wholesale life insurance broker Buyer: Pan American Underwriters (Los Angeles), a subsidiary of PAULA Financial (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :PFCO) (Pasadena) Deal Value: ND Seller: Lemac & Associates Inc. (Los Angeles) Business: Wholesale insurance broker Buyer: Risk Placement Services Inc. (Itasca, IL), a subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Itasca, IL) Deal Value: ND Seller: Lovell Minnick Partners (Rolling Hills Estates) sold AssetMark Investment Services Inc. (Pleasant Hill, CA) Business: Provides asset management solutions Buyer: Genworth Financial Asset Management (Encino), a division of Genworth Financial (NYSE:GNW) (Richmond, VA) Deal Value: $230 to $340 Million Seller: M80 Interactive Marketing LLC (Los Angeles) Business: Provides online word-of-mouth marketing services Buyer: GroupM (New York), a company of WPP Group Plc (NASDAQ:WPPGY & LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :WPP.L) (London) Deal Value: ND Seller: National Mercantile Bancorp (NASDAQ:MBLA MBLA Macedonian Business Lawyers Association MBLA Multi-Beam Laser Altimeter MBLA Man Boy Love Association (usually seen as NAMBLA) MBLA Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association MBLA Mortgage Broker License Act ) (Los Angeles) & FCB Bancorp (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :FCBA FCBA Federal Communications Bar Association FCBA Federal Circuit Bar Association (Washington, DC) FCBA Future Carrier Borne Aircraft FCBA Fayette County Bar Association (Kentucky) ) (Camarillo, CA) Business: Provides banking services Buyer: First CA Financial Group Deal Value: $85.4 Million Seller: Nextwave Media Group LLC (Chicago) of a 35% interest Business: Provides internet advertising Buyer: Shamrock Holdings Inc. (Burbank) Deal Value: ND Seller: Orchard Capital (Los Angeles), Fuqua Ventures (Atlanta), GIMV NV (ENXTBR:GIMB) (Belgium), Imlay Investments (Atlanta), Kinetic Ventures (Chevy Chase, MD), & Labrador Ventures (PaiD Alto) sold Proficient Systems Inc. (Atlanta) Business: Provides hosted chat solutions to businesses Buyer: LivePerson Inc. (NASDAQ:LPSN LPSN Local Support Partner News ) (New York) Deal Value: 2 to 4.05 million shares of LivePerson stock Seller: Oxford Property Consultants (United Kingdom) sold its Fund Management Business (United Kingdom) Business: Provides investment management services Buyer: CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. Investors (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: PrimeZone Media Network Inc. (Los Angeles) Business: Provides newswire & multimedia services Buyer: NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ NDAQ National Database of Accredited Qualifications (New York) Deal Value: ND Seller: SportsNet (Los Angeles) Business: Provides athlete management services Buyer: Wasserman Media Group (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: The Willingham Group (Westlake Village) Business: Provides marketing & branding services Buyer: Aloft Group Inc. (Newburyport, MA) Deal Value: ND Seller: T-Square Reprographics (Miami) Business: Provides copying & document management services Buyer: American Reprographics Co. (NYSE:ARP) (Glendale) Deal Value: ND Seller: Wo Kee Hong Holdings Ltd. (Hong Kong) sold Technorient Ltd (Hong Kong) Business: Imports sports cars Buyer: Xact Aid Inc. (OTCBB:XAID) (Westlake Village) Deal Value: ND CONSUMER Seller: Advanced Beauty Solutions LLC (Los Angeles) Business: Markets beauty products on infomercials Buyer: Cirtran Corp. (OTCBB:CIRT CIRT Computer Incident Response Team CIRT Critical Incident Response Team CIRT Camara Nacional de La Industria de Radio y Television (Mexican Association of Broadcasters) CIRT Central Institute of Road Transport ) (Salt Lake City) Deal Value: $2.3 Million Seller: AmericanTours International (Beverly Hills) & Alberta Motor Association The Alberta Motor Association (AMA) is a non-profit membership organization serving Alberta & NWT affiliated with Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) and AAA (formerly American Automobile Association). (Alberta) Business: Provides private label travel products Joint Venture: AmericanTours International LLC Deal Value: ND Seller: Automotive Invitational Services (Pacifica, CA) Business: Provides car buying services to AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. Members Buyer: Zag.com Inc. (Santa Monica) Deal Value: ND Seller: Brentwood Associates (Los Angeles) sold Oriental Trading Company (Omaha) Business: Markets novelties, toys, party supplies & home decor items Buyer: The Carlyle Group (Washington, DC) Deal Value: $1 billion Seller: Jane & Co. Inc. (Baltimore) Business: Maker of cosmetics Buyer: Stone Canyon Venture Partners (Beverly Hills) & The Walnut Group (Cincinnati) Deal Value: ND Seller: Jeantex Group Inc. (OTCPK:JNTX.B) (Huntington Beach) sold a 31% interest in Yves Castaldi Corporation (Los Angeles) Business: Designs & markets branded high-end apparel Buyer: Yves Castaldi Corp. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: 6 Million shares + $226,650 Seller: Long Rap Inc. (Washington, DC) Business: Operates "Up Against the Wall" stores Buyer: Blue Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BLUE) (Commerce) Deal Value: $32 Million Seller: Lynx Grills Inc. (Commerce) Business: Mfgrs stainless steel outdoor kitchen Products Buyer: Century Park Capital Partners (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: New Era Studios Inc. (Salt Lake City) Business: Produces prints for wall dBcor. Buyer: Pinecrest Services Inc. now Silvergraph International (OTCBB:SVGI SVGI Silicon Valley Group, Inc. (stock symbol) SVGI Sequential Vapour Gas Injection ) (Santa Fe Springs Santa Fe Springs, city (1990 pop. 15,520), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., inc. 1957. The city lies in an oil and natural gas region and has diversified manufacturing. ) Deal Value: $1.6 Million Seller: Prime Event Group (Tucson) Business: Provides structural party equipment Buyer: Classic Party Rentals Inc. (El Segundo) Deal Value: ND Seller: Rhino-Off Road Industries Inc. (Henderson, NV) Business: Mfgrs. Rhino Off-Road RTV[R] Buyer: CyberAds Inc. (OTCBB:CYAD) (Torrance) Deal Value: ND Seller: Sun Capital Partners Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) sold Bachrach Clothing Inc. (Decatur, IL) Business: Menswear retailer Buyer: Great American Group (Los Angeles), Hudson Capital Partners (Ridgeland, MS), & Bachrach Acquisition (Chicago) Deal Value: $10 Million Seller: Team Baby Entertainment LP (Houston) Business: Produces DVDs based on college sports for toddlers Buyer: The Tornante Co. LLC (Beverly Hills) Deal Value: ND ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT Seller: Former Ford Motor Company Emissions Laboratory (London) Business: Provides emssions R&D & testing Buyer: Green Plus Ltd (London), a sister company of BioFriendly Corporation USA (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. (Los Angeles), Strome investment Management (Santa Monica), Claymore Advisors (Lisle, IL), Fiduciary Asset Management (St. Louis, MO), First Reserve Corporation (Greenwich, CT), First Trust Advisors (Lisle, IL), & Tortoise Capital Advisors (Overland Park, KS) sold Pacific Energy Partners LP (NYSE:PPX) (Long Beach) Business: Provides transportation, storage, & distribution of crude oil Buyer: Plains All American Pipeline Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE: PAA) is a publicly traded Master Limited Partnership in the oil pipeline transmission and storage business in the United States. It owns about 37 million barrels (5,900,000 m³) of terminalling and storage capacity and 15,000 miles (25,000 LP (NYSE:PAA) (Houston) Deal Value: $2.4 Billion Seller: Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY) (Los Angeles) sold Natural Gas Reserves In East Texas And Oklahoma Business: Natural gas reserves Buyer: Cordillera Energy Partners Ii, LLC (Greenwood Village, CO) Deal Value: ND Seller: Pecos Inc. (Rancho Dominguez) sold GP Resources Inc. (Rancho Dominguez) Business: Distributes petroleum products Buyer: SPI Petroleum LLC (Oklahoma City) Deal Value: ND Seller: US Renewables Group (Santa Monica) sold a significant stake in Bottle Rock Power Corp. (Santa Rosa, CA) Business: Operates a geothermal power station Buyer: Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy & Power Funds (New York), a partnership of The Carlyle Group (Washington, DC) & Riverstone Holdings (New York) Deal Value: ND FOOD & BEVERAGE Seller: Lifeforce Labs (Altamonte Springs, FL) sold its ZOIC Nutrition Drink and license for hybrid energy drink Business: Protien rich meal replacement beverage Buyer: Sunset Brands Inc. (OTCBB:SSBN SSBN Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear (submarine) SSBN Strategic Submarine Ballistic Nuclear ) (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Sara Lee Corp (NYSE:SLE SLE systemic lupus erythematosus. SLE abbr. systemic lupus erythematosus Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) ) (Chicago) sold its European Meats Business (Hoofddorp, Netherlands) Business: Provides branded meat products to Europe Buyer: Oaktree Capital Management Oaktree Capital Management LLC is a US investment management corporation which operates a number of investment entities commonly known as hedge funds of approximately $40 Billion. (Los Angeles) & Smithfield Foods Inc. (NYSE:SFD) (Smithfield, VA) Deal Value: $614 Million Seller: TaB Warehouse & Distribution Co. (Fontana, CA) Business: Provides confectionary food distribution services Buyer: Weber Distribution Warehouses Inc. (Santa Fe Springs) Deal Value: ND Seller: United Food Group LLC (Los Angeles) Business: Processes fresh & frozen beef products Buyer: American Capital Strategies Ltd. (NASDAQ:ACAS ACAS Cardiology A clinical trial–Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study which evaluated the 5-yr risk of fatal and non-fatal stroke-primary outcome in Pts with asymptomatic but severe carotid atherosclerosis. See Carotid stenosis. ) (Bethesda, MD) Deal Value: ND HEALTH CARE Seller: Amoun (CASE:AMUN) (Cairo, Egypt) Business: Mfgrs pharmaceuticals Buyer: Capital International (Los Angeles), Concord International (New York) & Citigroup Private Equity (New York) Deal Value: $451 Million Seller: GeriNet Physician Services Inc. (Santa Ana, CA) Business: Provides nursing home services Buyer: CareMore Health Plan (Cerritos) Deal Value: ND Seller: Health Line Clinical Laboratories Inc. (Burbank) Business: Provides clinical reference laboratory services Buyer: BioLabs Inc. (Santa Ana), a portfolio company of Parthenon Capital (San Francisco) Deal Value: ND Seller: NeuroScience Therapy Corp. (OTCPK:NPYC) (San Dimas) Business: Provides pain relief technology Buyer: Unnamed Deal Value: $50 Million Seller: SeniorCare Network Inc. (Campbell, CA) Business: Provides at-home care for seniors Buyer: LivHOME Corp. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: WattsHealth Foundation Inc. (Inglewood) sold its UHP Healthcare HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, Business: Provides healthcare to Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries. Buyer: Care1st Health Plan (Alhambra) Deal Value: $30 Million INDUSTRIAL Seller: Global Automotive Parts (Los Angeles) Business: Provides automotive aftermarket parts Buyer: LKQ Corp. (NASDAQ:LKQX) (Chicago) Deal Value: ND Seller: Ameron International Corp. (NYSE:AMN) (Pasadena) sold its Performance Coatings and Finishes business (Pasadena) & a 40% interest in Oasis-Ameron, Ltd (Saudi Arabia) Business: Provides marine and transportation protective coatings. Buyer: PPG Industries Inc. (NYSE:PPG) (Pittsburgh) Deal Value: $115 Million Seller: Aurora Capital Group (Los Angeles), Brentwood Associates (Los Angeles), & The Cambria Group (Menlo Park, CA) sold FleetPride Corp. (The Woodlands, TX) Business: Distributes aftermarket heavy-duty truck & trailer parts Buyer: Banc of America Capital Investors (New York), Investcorp Bank BSC (Binary Synchronous Communications) See bisync. (New York), & Company's Management (The Woodlands, TX) Deal Value: ND Seller: Metals Supply Co. Ltd. (Houston) Business: Structural carbon steel products distributor Buyer: Platinum Equity LLC (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Nautic Partners (Providence, RI) sold IPS Corp. (Compton) Business: Mfgs plastic pipe adhesives & plumbing hardware Buyer: Fremont Partners (San Francisco) Deal Value: ND Seller: Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) (Los Angeles) & Litton Systems Inc. (Woodland Hills) sold Winchester Electronics Corp. (Wallingford, CT) Business: Provides interconnects & cable assemblies Buyer: Audax Group (Boston) Deal Value: ND Seller: Pankl Racing Systems AG (DB:PKL) (Austria) sold a 25% equity stake in its aerospace division (Cerritos & Austria) Business: Provides products for aerospace & defense Buyer: Admiralty Partners Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Regent Manufacturing Inc. sold certain assets, brands & product designs of its GSE GSE general somatic efferent system. Division Business: Provides ground support equipment for aircraft Buyer: Duality Products Inc. (OTCPK:QPDC QPDC Quad Programmable Down Converter QPDC Queensland Performance Datsun Club ) (Columbus, OH) Deal Value: ND Seller: Sweeney Engineering Corp. (Gardena) & Electra-Motion Industries (Camarillo, CA) Business: Manufactures aerospace components Buyer: TransDigm Group Inc. (NYSE:TDG) (Cleveland) Deal Value: $27 Million Seller: The Barbour Corp. (Brockton, MA) sold Calflex Manufacturing (Vernon) Business: Mfgs water connectors and accessories Buyer: Watts Water Technologies (NYSE:WTS) (North Andover, MA) Deal Value: ND MEDIA Seller: Dentsu (Tokyo) through Geneon Entertainment Inc (Tokyo) and Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo) through d-rights Inc. (Tokyo) formed a joint venture Business: Japanese animation Joint Venture: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. (Long Beach) Deal Value: 2.0 Billion Yen Seller: Silverscreen Acquisitions Inc. (London) Business: DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. retailer Buyer: Leonidas Films Inc. (OTCPK:LFMI LFMI Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging ) (Woodland Hills) Deal Value: ND Seller: Allumination FilmWorks (Woodland Hills) Business: Distributes DVDs Buyer: ContentFilm plc (AIM:CFL) (London) Deal Value: $4.5 Million Seller: Ares Management (Los Angeles), J.H. Whitney & Co. (Stamford, CT), J.P. Morgan Partners (New York), & Wachovia Capital Partners (Charlotte, NC) sold HOB Entertainment Inc. (Los Angeles) Business: Operates House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically venues Buyer: Live Nation (NYSE:LYV) (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $350 Million Seller: Clarity Partners (Beverly Hills), Boston Ventures Management Inc. (Boston), & Legal & General Ventures Ltd. (London) sold Vue Entertainment Ltd. (London) Business: UK cinema operator Buyer: Bank of Scotland Bank of Scotland plc is a commercial and clearing bank, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a history dating to the 17th century, it is the oldest surviving bank in what is now the United Kingdom, and is the only commercial institution created by the Parliament of Scotland to (Scotland) & Vue's Management team (London) Deal Value: GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 350 Million Seller: Jump the Shark
"Jump the Shark" is the fifteenth episode of the ninth season of The X-Files. Inc. (New York) Business: Maintains interactive website Buyer: Gemstar TV Guide International Inc. (NASDAQ:GMST GMST Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time GMST General Military Subjects Test GMST Genov Modified Stroop Test ) (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Media City Studios (Burbank) Business: Studio production facility Buyer: ValCom Inc. (OTCBB:VACM VACM View-based Access Control Model (SNMP) VACM Vector Averaging Current Meter VACM Virus Alerts for the Common Man VACM Vacuum Assisted Compression Molding ; Frankfurt XETRA Xetra Deutsche Borse electronic trading platform that commenced operation in 1997. :VAM) (Las Vegas) Deal Value: ND Seller: Univision Communications Inc. (NYSE:UVN) (Los Angeles) Business: Spanish-language media company Buyer: Saban Capital Group (Los Angeles), Madison Dearborn Partners (Chicago), Providence Equity Partners Providence Equity Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island that focuses on investments in media and telecommunications. It is one of the largest private investment firms specializing in equity investments in media and communications companies. (Providence, RI), Texas Pacific Group (Fort Worth), & Thomas H. Lee Partners  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . Thomas H. (Boston) Deal Value: $13.7 Billion Seller: Vale Music Spain, S.I. (Barcelona) Business: Independent music label Buyer: Universal Music Group Inc. (Santa Monica), a unit of Vivendi Deal Value: ND Seller: WAEL-AM (Puerto Rico) Business: Radio station Buyer: Univision Communications Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $2 Million Seller: Workbook Inc. (Los Angeles) Business: Provides high-end rights-managed images Buyer: JupiterImages Corp. (New York), a division of Jupitermedia Corp. (NASDAQ: JUPM) (Darien, CT) Deal Value: ND REAL ESTATE Seller: Springhurst Housing Partners LLC (Louisville) Business: Real estate investment firm Buyer: Paladin Realty Income Properties Inc. (Los Angeles) Deal Value: $4.8 Million TECHNOLOGY Seller: B&B Technologies Inc. (Albuquerque) Business: Provides systems integration services Buyer: NTS Technical Systems Inc. (Calabasas), a subsidiary of National Technical Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. ) (Calabasas) Deal Value: ND Seller: Blue Label Interactive Inc. (Los Angeles) Business: Develops mobile entertainment software Buyer: Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. (Los Angeles), a subsidiary of Konami Corp. (NYSE:KNM) Deal Value: ND Seller: Broadcaster Inc. (OTCBB:BCSR BCSR Bahrain Center for Studies and Research BCSR Basic Commercial Security Requirements ) (Los Angeles) sold its Software Business Business: Provides productivity software Buyer: IMSI/Design, LLC (Novato, CA) a portfolio company of Greyhawk Capital Management (Ketchum, ID) Deal Value: $8 Million Seller: idealab (Pasadena); Clearstone Venture Partners Clearstone Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on IT investing with offices in Santa Monica, CA, Menlo Park, CA, and Mumbai, India. Founded in 1997, as Idealab Capital Partners, Clearstone is responsible for the early-stage funding of many successful (Santa Monica); Advance Publications (Staten Island, NY); Goldman Sachs Group, Merchant Banking Division (New York); Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Dyers (Menlo Park, CA); MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings (New York); RRE Ventures (New York); & Trinity Ventures (Menlo Park, CA) sold WeddingChannel.com (Los Angeles) Business: Operates a wedding website Buyer: The Knot Inc. (NASDAQ:KNOT) (New York) Deal Value: $78 Million Seller: International Computer Graphics Inc. (City of Industry) Business: Distributes display technology solutions Buyer: Electrograph e·lec·tro·graph n. 1. An electrically produced graph or tracing. 2. Equipment used to produce such a graph or tracing in facsimile transmission. Noun 1. Systems Inc. (Hauppauge, NY), a portfolio company of Caxton-Iseman Capital Inc. (New York) Deal Value: ND Seller: Lexington Ventures (Beverly Hills), Housatonic Partners (Boston), & Boatracs (San Diego) sold Enerdyne Technologies Inc. (El Cajun, CA) Business: Provides video & data link systems to the defense and intelligence industries Buyer: ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT) (Carlsbad, CA) Deal Value: $25.7 Million Seller: My Address Book LLC (Minneapolis) Business: Maintains website of online address book Buyer: Reunion.com (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Privately held portfolio of 35,000 Domain Names Business: Internet domain names Buyer: Oversee.net (Los Angeles) Deal Value: ND Seller: Rustic Canyon Partners (Santa Monica), Baring Private Equity Asia (Hong Kong), Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott (Chicago), BPEP International (London), Eastman Chemical Co. (NYSE:EMN) (Kingsport, TN), Ernst & Young (New York), Itochu Corp. (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :8001) (Japan), Itochu Finance Corp.(Japan), PolyTechnos Venture-Partners GmbH (Germany), SOFTBANK Corp. (TSE:9984) (Japan), STI STI systolic time intervals. Ventures NV (Netherlands), & Union BanCal Equities (San Francisco) sold PLX Systems Inc. (Los Angeles) Business: Develops software to manage intellectual property assets Buyer: Access Integrated Technologies Access Integrated Technologies is a large company concerned in, amongst other things, motion pictures. It bought all of Boeing's digital cinema equipment assets, intellectual property licenses, and existing theatre contracts. Inc. (NASDAQ:AIXD) (Morristown, NJ) Deal Value: ND Seller: Shamrock Holdings Inc. (Burbank), Advent International Corp. (Boston), Cargill Ventures (Wayzata, MN), The Challenge Fund--Etgar L.P. (Israel),Formula Ventures Ltd. (Israel), Intel Capital (Santa Clara), UBS Capital (London), & Vanenburg Group (Netherlands) sold Demantra (Waltham, MA) Business: Provides inventory planning software & solutions Buyer: Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) (Redwood Shores, CA) Deal Value: ND Seller: Shanghai Jinshilin Technologies Development Co. Ltd (China) sold its IPTV set-top box business Business: Provides delivery of DTV Internet programming to TVs Buyer: China Jinshilin Techno Ltd. (China), a subsidiary of TechnoConcepts (OTGBB:TCPS) (Van Nuys) Deal Value: ND Seller: Tiger Global Fund (New York) sold an equity interest in Spark Networks plc (Los Angeles) Business: Provides online personals Buyer: Great Hills Partners (Boston) Deal Value: ND Seller: Unidym (Los Angeles) Business: Develops carbon nanotube-based electronics Buyer: NanoPolaris (Pasadena), a subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corp. (NASDAQ:ARWR) (Pasadena) Deal Value: 10% of NanoPolaris common stock TELECOM Seller: StarVox Communications Inc. (San Jose) Business: Provides telecom services Buyer: US Wireless Data Inc. (OTCBB:USWI) (Los Angeles) Deal Value: 72% of USWI's stock |
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