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• SonicWall directors accept $717M acquisition offer

  SonicWall directors have accepted a $717 million offer to sell the company to a group headed by Thoma Bravo, LLC, a private equity investment firm with the aim of growing the company faster and developing products quicker than it could as a public company.

• Google AdMob deal closes

  Google has closed its acquisition of AdMob, following news less than a week ago that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission would not block the deal.

• Oracle buys telecom billing tech from Aussie firm

  Oracle announced Wednesday it is acquiring technology for prepaid telecommunications billing from eServGlobal, boosting its hand in the telecom market.

• McAfee adds mobile security with Trust Digital purchase

  McAfee sees the mobility writing on the wall, and it recognizes that the technologies its customers rely increasingly on smartphones and other mobile technologies to conduct business. McAfee announced that is acquiring Trust Digital as part of a strategic focus to deliver the tools IT administrators need to effectively manage and secure mobile devices.

• Sybase promises integrated mobile platform

  Sybase will dramatically revamp and integrate its conglomeration of mobile software products, assuming software giant SAP, which is buying Sybase, doesn't have other ideas.

• Ka-Ching: IBM to spend $US1.4B of $20B acquisition budget on Sterling

  IBM reached deep into its $US20 billion acquisition war chest today by agreeing to spend $1.4 billion to acquire Sterling Commerce, an AT&T subsidiary and maker of business-to-business software.

• SAP Mostly Mum On Sybase Plans

  SAP Executives have said little about their plans for Sybase products once the enterprise software vendor's $5.8 billion deal to buy the Dublin, Calif., database maker closes, leaving Sybase users and partners wondering about the fate of technology that many of them depend on.

• Oracle buys Secerno to get database firewall

  Oracle has bought UK database security startup Secerno for an undisclosed sum, bringing to an end the independence of one of the last decade's most unusual UK-based startups.

• Symantec's $1.28B VeriSign gambit draws mixed reviews

  Symantec's stunning decision to put $1.28 billion in cash on the table to buy most of the security services within VeriSign is a gambit that is drawing mixed reactions in the analyst community, but Symantec insists the VeriSign certificate and authentication services are key elements in what's shaping up to be one of the biggest self-transformations ever in the security industry.

• Cisco makes another optical acquisition

  Cisco announced plans to acquire privately held CoreOptics, a designer of digital signal processing technology for optical networking applications, for $99 million in cash.

• Symantec to buy VeriSign's authentication business

  Symantec will pay US$1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign's security business.

• Cisco buys Moto -- no, not that Moto

  Cisco Tuesday said it intends to acquire privately held Moto Development Group, a product design consulting firm that helped develop Cisco's Flip video camera. Moto, not to be confused with Motorola (which sometimes is referred to by the nickname Moto), develops products and product strategies for the consumer industry.

• SAP faces tough challenges in executing on Sybase plan

  SAP's planned acquisition of Sybase reads like a World War I battle plan: replete with confident, assured references to "synergy" and objectives and market opportunities. But now, as then, the plan may bear little resemblance to what's happening on the ground.

• SAP to acquire Sybase in a bid to go mobile

  Developer of business software and solutions SAP has signed an agreement to acquire mobile software company Sybase for roughly $US5.8 billion.

• SAP to buy Sybase for $US5.8 billion

  SAP is buying mobile and database vendor Sybase for roughly US$5.8 billion, the company announced Wednesday.