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Amount:         $70
million

  
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Terms:           
$100% cash

  
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Premium:        25%

  
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Industry:        E-commerce
enablers

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  HOUSTON, May 23–Business software company BMC Software
  said it would buy Israeli-based OptiSystems
  Solutionsfor $70 million cash. BMC, whose software allows companies involved
  in electronic commerce to monitor their systems and spot potential
  problems, said the OptiSystems
  purchase will allow it to offer a product that manages SAP AG’s SAP R/3
  software, which runs transaction, database, and inventory software.
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Amount:      &nbs

p; 
Undisclosed

  
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Terms:           
n/a

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Content/Communities

  
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Scorecard:      C

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  NORTH PALM BEACH, May 23–Ilife.com
  announced that it has sold all business and assets of The College Press
  Network (CPNet.com) to
  Colleges.com. Ilife.com will
  continue to focus its direction on personal finance content by selling The
  College Press Network, a provider of college-focused Internet-based content
  and advertising solutions for online college newspapers. The buyer, Colleges.com, is the creator of the
  “Virtual Campus” community and a provider of Internet-based commerce and
  services to the college and university community and is the publisher of
  “U.”, the National College Magazine. Specific terms of the sale were not
  disclosed.
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Amount:         $55.9
million

  
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Terms:           
1.25 ADSX shares per ATEC share

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-commerce
enablers

  
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Scorecard:      n/a

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  PALM BEACH, May 23–Applied Digital Solutionsand ATEC Groupannounced the
  termination of the letter of intent that called for Applied Digital Solutions to acquire ATEC Group for $55.9 million. Market
  conditions were cited for the termination of the merger, originally
  announced May 5, 2000.
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Amount:        
Undisclosed

  
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Terms:           
n/a

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-tailers

  
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Scorecard:      C-

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  LONDON, May 23–ci4net.com, the Econet 4
  Europe, announced it has acquired a 50% interest in BuyThisFast, the
  world’s first online Convenience Shopping Network. The addition of BuyThisFast to ci4net.com’s Econet will directly benefit
  ci4net.com’s partner companies by giving them access to a proprietary ad
  serving technology and leverage of the power of “affiliate” marketing to
  form a new
• revenue stream.
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