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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Goldman Scores Outsized M&A Fee	All of criticism of Goldman Sachs’ big bonuses and record profits does not diminish the fact that the Wall Street firm is good at making money. Heres a small example: Tech firm 3Com said in a regulatory filing late last week that it paid Goldman $41 million for advising it on its recent $2.7 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard. Advisory fees are typically based on a percentage of the overall deal value, which is why the Goldman fee is noteworthy. Compare Goldmans 3Com fee to the $42 milli...	December 07, 2009
The Tech Industry’s Top Deals This Year	Hewlett-Packard’s deal for 3Com is the latest step in a march toward tech-industry consolidation. The string of recent tech deals are breathing life into the once morbid M&A market as behemoth’s like Oracle, Dell, H-P and Cisco pursue new growth through acquisitions. Take a look at some of the other big computers and electronics deals announced in 2009. Click on column headers to sort. Announced Value $m Value (Ex Debt) $m Acquirer Target 4/20/2009 $7,369 $7,369 Oracle Co...	November 12, 2009
Who Said M&A Wasn’t Coming Back?	Last week Deal Journal opined on the sparsity of M&A activity in October. Oh, what a difference a week makes. Six days into this month and November already has the highest montly total dollar volume of announced U.S . deals ($54.1 billion) since April, according to Dealogic. And it wasn’t just the purchase by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway of Burlington Northern Sante Fe for $26 billion, the third biggest transaction of the year. This week also had the biggest private-equi...	November 06, 2009
Deals of the Day: The Dismantling of Citi	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions IMS Health: The firm shares jumped 23% after it agreed to be acquired by private-equity firm TPG and the C...	November 06, 2009
Deals of the Day: What if Oracle Walks Out on Sun?	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions Scripps Networks Interactive: Scripps will take a 65% stake in Cox Communications’s Travel Channel b...	November 05, 2009
Schwab Readies to Launch Commission-Free ETFs	The country’s largest discount brokerage firm, Charles Schwab, is readying to unleash its first four exchange traded funds (ETFs). The ETFs come with a big hook: they’re commission free. Peter Crawford, senior vice president of IMS Client Solutions, says the lack of commission is... ...	November 02, 2009
IMShopping Is A Human Powered Product Search Engine For Twitter	IMshopping has launched a human-powered shopping search site and Twitter shopping service designed to help consumers find niche products on the web. It’s sort of like a shopping 411 service, which human guides on call respond to product questions and provide personalized recommendations for users about what product best suits their needs. IMShopping tries to simulate the experience of going into a store, speaking with a sales person and being guided to the item that works best for you. I...	April 29, 2009
BNP Paribas Asset-Management Chief Glicenstein Has Died	William Hutchings, of Financial News, reports: The chief executive of BNP Paribas Investment Partners, whose decision to freeze three of the bank’s funds coincided with a worsening moment in the credit crisis, has died. BNP Paribas said Glicenstein, 44 years old, died Tuesday night but didn’t specify the cause. He had twice been treated for cancer. An official statement of the bank said: “The management and staff of BNP Paribas Investment Partners are determined to continue to...	April 24, 2009
High returns from tax-free muni bond funds	Filed under: Newsletters, Mutual funds, ETF Investing, RecessionThis post is part of a 12-article feature that can be read here: Today's best income ideas. "You don't have to be in the upper tax bracket to rake in higher returns from these tax-free bonds," says income expert Carla Pasternak. In her High Yield Investing, she looks two favorite vehicles: Morgan Stanley Insured Municipal Securities (NYSE: IMS), with a tax-equivalent yield of 7.9% and Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund (NYSE...	March 01, 2009
IMScouting Pulls Off Ambitious Soccer Data Play	If Content is king then Data is its prince. And generally speaking, the more unique and difficult it is to gather, the greater is its value. A recent example of this is RepairPal which applies a narrow and deep approach to collecting data on automobile parts and repair prices in the US. The data collection is anything but trivial and requires significant manual labor, but the outcome could be a significant and valuable dataset. Israeli IMScouting is taking a similar approach but applying it to ...	October 22, 2008