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Featured Articles » Corvil's Latency Management System Deployed at SIX Swiss Exchange » LogiSense President: Billing and OSS Serve as Competitive Advantages for Firms » BT Announces Managed Secure Messaging for Financial Services Community » Utiba Americas to Offer Mobile Financial Services Platform to Central Bank of Ecuador   Sponsored By: Smart Grid Summit in Metro DC Register for Smart Grid Summit today and save nearly $600! This offer expires on April 1 and we're not foolin!   Top Stories » G20 meet to highlight China's world finance role » Czech central bank withdraws lowest value banknote » Spain's central bank dims forecast for 2011 » Lloyd's of London 2010 profit down 43 pct   From The Expert Corner More than 1,900 merger and acquisition (M&A) deals with a total valuation of over $200 billion were announced in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in 2010, according to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) report. M&A activities made a strong comeback in 2010 after the global economy shrank in 2008-09. The majority of M&A deals in 2010 focused on application-related areas, including enterprise applications (586 deals) and Internet applications (421 deals). There was a surge in M&A activity in the infrastructure segment with more than 219 deals led by interest in security and storage companies, IDC (News - Alert) said in its report called “The 2010 Tech M&A Analysis Report.” The telecom segment was active in 2010 with seven of top 10 mega deals involving service provider networks. The major telecom deals include CenturyLink's acquisition of Qwest for $22.4 billion, América Móvil's $21 billion deal for Telemex, Intel's $7.7 billion deal for McAfee and SAP's acquisition of Sybase (News - Alert) ($5.8 billion). Google, which made 27 deals in 2010, followed by AOL and Facebook with nice deals each, were the most active companies in the M&A landscape. IT vendors including Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle (News - Alert), and VMware were also in the M&A market. “The renewed confidence accompanying the recovery in IT spending helped to make 2010 a turnaround year for technology M&A activity,” said Dan Yachin, research director, Emerging Technologies at IDC, in a statement. “Looking ahead, IDC expects 2011 to be another active year as companies make strategic investments in a variety of critical areas, such as converged infrastructure, mobile content, service creation and enablement, data analytics (and the supporting infrastructure), and pervasive computing,” Yachin added. Recently, consultancy and research firm PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that M&A activity across the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors recovered strongly in the wake of the global economic downturn. The number of acquisitions in the energy efficiency sector trebled last year and is worth more than $3 billion. Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page. Edited by Tammy Wolf   From The Blogs What AT&T Purchase of T-Mobile Means March 20, 2011 5:26 PM By: Rich Tehrani Today, AT&T announced it was purchasing T-Mobile from Deutsche Telecom generating a combined entity with 130 million wireless subscribers producing $72.2B per year in revenue. While AT&T had an exclusive contract with Apple to sell iPads and iPhones it could rely on organic growth but now that Cupertino decided polygamy was more lucrative and Google’s Android is unleashing a torrent of cool devices on all networks, the challenge for carriers is to figure out how to compete effectively in a world where differentiating based on device is more difficult...Read More >>>    Featured Videos Confirming Rumors, Symantec Buys VeriSign Security for $1.28 Billion    Featured Resources » The Rise of Diameter Signaling » Policy Control and Mobile Video: Options for Managing Growth » Mobile Video Consumer Survey: Identifying Win-Win Pricing Plans   TMCnet's Blogs » KickStarter Gets $10M Funding » Is AT&T Using Investment Angle to Silence Blumenthal? » Use PayPal in the Mall?   Featured Channels » Financial Technology » Expense Management   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of IP Communications professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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