FreeRealTime Gets Back to its Roots

  
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Amount:        
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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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  PARIS, June 7–Trader.com, owner of the
  French classified ads paper and Web site La Centrale, announced that it has
  acquired epublik S.A., a leading French auction site. Trader.com will integrate epublik’s site into the La Centrale
  platform to reinforce its online auction presence in France. Terms of the
  transaction were not disclosed.
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Terms:           
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        Internet
services

  
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Scorecard:      C+

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  SAO PAULO, Brazil, June 7–IFX do Brasil, a wholly-owned
  Brazilian subsidiary of the IFX Corporation– a
  leading Latin American Internet access provider – has acquired Mr. Help
  Informatica, a Web hosting company, and Ludix Internet, an ISP
  focused on corporate services. Both acquisitions position IFX as one of Brazil’s leading ISPs for
  corporate clients. Mr. Help was founded
  in 1994 and today is one of Brazil’s three largest Web hosting companies,
  while Ludix Internet is one of the strongest corporate ISPs in Brazil’s
  Santa Catarina State.
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Amount:         $10
million

  
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Terms:           
100% stock

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        Internet
services

  
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Scorecard:      B+

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  OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 7–Internet Pictures, a provider of technology that allows people to take three
  dimensional online real estate tours, said it would buy TBI Imaging
  and part of Opticom, privately held companies that provide flat
  pictures for the real estate market, for $10 million in stock. Under terms
  of the agreement, iPIX will acquire all
  of TBI imaging and that portion of Opticom that serves the flat imaging
  needs of the real estate market.
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Amount:        
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Terms:           
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-commerce
enablers

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  SAN JOSE, June 7–BEA Systems, The
  E-Commerce Transactions Company, announced that it has acquired Softport
  Systems, a privately held systems integration firm based in New York,
  NY. Softport specializes in
  the development of mission-critical business systems that utilize
  multi-tier architecture and object-based de
• sign. With this agreement, BEA will integrate Softport’s 20-plus
  employees into the BEA E-Commerce Services Division. Financial terms of the
  agreement were not disclosed.
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Amount:         $16
million

  
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Terms:           
4 million shares

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        Financial
services

  
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Scorecard:      A-

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  IRVINE, June 7–FreeRealTime.com, a
  leading Web provider of real-time stock market data, financial services and
  analytical tools, and privately held RedChip.com, a leading
  independent research company devoted to “Discovering Tomorrow’s Blue Chips
  Today” jointly announced today a definitive merger agreement to create the
  Internet’s premier vertical finance portal providing “real-time actionable
  insight” to independent and institutional investors. Under the proposed
  merger, FreeRealTime.com will
  issue 4 million shares to the RedChip.com shareholders who, on a pro
  forma basis, will own approximately one-third of the combined company.
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Undisclosed

  
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Terms:           
n/a

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Speed/Bandwidth

  
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Scorecard:      C+

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  SAN FRANCISCO, June 7–New York-based On2.com, a leader in broadband technology and content delivery over the
  Internet, announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire
  Eight Cylinder Studios of San Francisco. Eight Cylinders has developed the
  Web’s premier broadband-specific technology platform, delivering
  high-quality 3D sound, 3D animation, and 3D interactive content to the
  broadband market, and will make On2.com’s
  range of solutions more attractive to content-rich companies who want to
  migrate their content assets to broadband. Terms of the acquisition were
  not disclosed.
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