The Pooper Scooper

  
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Amount:         $350
million

  
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Terms:           
5 million shares

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-tailers

  
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Scorecard:      A

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  SAN JOSE, June 13–eBay, the world’s
  leading personal trading community, announced that it has agreed to acquire
  Half.com a fixed-price, person-to-person trading marketplace where
  buyers and sellers can trade used books, CDs, movies and video games that
  are at least half off the list price. The company was founded in July 1999
  and launched its site in January 2000. eBay will pay for Half.com in stock, using a formula that is
  expected to work out to between 4.6 million and 5.5 million of its shares.
  Based on eBay’s closing stock price Tuesday of $68 a share, the total value
  of the deal should be between $312 and $374 million.
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Amount:         $440
million

  
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Terms:           
3 million shares

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Speed/Bandwidth

  
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Scorecard:      B+

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  LOS ANGELES, June 13–Communications semiconductor company
  Broadcomsaid it would acquire Innovent
  Systems, a 1-1/2-year-old maker of wireless chips, for about $440
  million in stock. Irvine, Calif.-based Broadcom said Innovent’s recently announced
  Blutonium family of Bluetooth semiconductors and systems would give it a
  strong presence in the short-range wireless market for home uses that
  analysts estimate will be a multi-billlion industry within a few years. The
  deal will see Broadcom issue 3 million shares for Innovent.
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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:        Internet
services

  
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Scorecard:      C+

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  NEW YORK, June 13–Loudeye Technologies,
  a leading provider of digital media solutions that unleash the power of
  audio and video on the Internet, announced that it has entered into an
  agreement in principle to acquire privately-held VidiPax, the
  leading independent provider of video and audio restoration and migration
  services in the world. As part of the acquisition, Loudeye plans to expand VidiPax’s well-established restoration
  facility in New York into a full-service Digital Media Center. The
  acquisition is anticipated to close by the end of June 2000, subject to
  satisfaction of a number of conditions.
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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:        Internet
services

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  PURCHASE, N.Y., June 13–I
• nterliant, a
  leading global application service provider (ASP), announced that it has
  acquired Chantilly, Virginia-based Knowledge Systems. Knowledge Systems, a provider of
  virtual trade shows and Web outsourcing services, has served association
  customers since 1984. Concurrently, Interliant is launching a new
  portfolio of services designed to meet the specific needs of the
  association marketplace.
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Amount:         $12
million

  
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Terms:           
6 million shares

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-tailers

  
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Scorecard:      C+

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  NEW YORK, June 13–Online pet supplies store Pets.comsaid it has agreed to acquire assets of privately held
  Internet pet store PetStore.com. Pets.com will acquire Petstore.com’s database of customers and
  newsletter subscribers, as well as the Petstore.com trademark, its trade
  name and domain name, and its live fish business, Flying Fish Express. The
  transaction also involves a $3 million cash investment into Pets.com and
  the company said it will issue about 5.8 million shares of its common stock
  and about 850,000 shares of a redeemable nonvoting, nonconvertible series A
  preferred stock.
  
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  In addition, Pets.com said it will take over a strategic, equity
  relationship with Discovery.com, an
  affiliate company of the Animal Planet cable television network. Pets.com
  said Discovery.com will become a “significant” shareholder in the company,
  and Discovery.com’s President and Chief Operating Officer Michela English
  will join the Pets.com board of directors.
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Amount:         $60
million

  
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Terms:           
100% stock

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Speed/Bandwidth

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  THOUSAND OAKS, June 13–Xircom, the
  leading provider of mobile information access solutions, announced that it
  is acquiring Omnipoint Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of
  VoiceStream Wireless. The Omnipoint acquisition is a key
  element of Xircom’s strategy to be a
  total provider of wireless data solutions for Wide Area, Personal Area, and
  Local Area Networks.
  
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  Under the terms of the agreement, VoiceStream will become a minority
  investor in Xircom by holding 1,201,079 shares of Xircom common stock to be
  exchanged for all outstanding shares of Omnipoint. The stock exchanged
  would have a value of approximately $52.2 million with certain liabilities
  and unvested employee stock options additionally valued at approximately
  $8.3 million.
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