Today’s Deals: E*Trade Reaching for Deeper Pockets

  
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Amount:        
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Terms:           
n/a

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        Financial
services

  
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Scorecard:      A-

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  MENLO PARK, Aug. 24–Further advancing its “high touch/high tech”
  strategy for building customer assets, E*TRADE Groupannounced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire
  privately-held PrivateAccounts.com, a Minneapolis-based developer of
  online separately managed accounts. Through the acquisition of PrivateAccounts, E*TRADE is expected to have particular
  appeal to affluent consumers who have a minimum of $100,000 to invest, to
  independent financial advisors, and to corporate clients who wish to
  benefit from the experience, expertise and leverage of professional money
  managers in helping them achieve their financial goals. Financial terms
  were not disclosed.
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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:       
Content/Communities

  
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Scorecard:      B+

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  SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24–ZDNet, which
  operates a network of Web sites for people who want to buy, use and learn
  about technology, announced that it has acquired Linux Hardware
  Database, a Linux hardware support resource, from Cambridge,
  Mass.-based DataPower Technology. Linux Hardware Database, together
  with recently acquired LinuxDevices, will be integrated with ZDNet’s Linux Resource Center, which
  currently includes Linux-focused news, reviews, opinion, software
  downloads, job opportunities, white papers, company information, help and
  how-to information and more.
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Amount:         $95
million

  
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Terms:           
100% stock

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Advertising/Marketing

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  NEW YORK, Aug. 24–24/7 Media, a global
  interactive media and technology solutions company, announced the purchase
  of Website Results, an Internet marketing technologies firm that
  delivers high volumes of targeted, cost-effective consumer and business
  traffic. Website Results
  broadens 24/7 Media’s suite of
  technology based interactive marketing solutions, as it targets Web sites
  and direct marketers that wish to drive incremental traffic with high
  conversion rates and offers clients effective and measurable results
  through its suite of proprietary applications. The all stock transaction is
  valued at $95 million.
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Amount:         $18.8
million

  
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Terms:           
940,000 shares

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        Performance
software

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  FREMONT, Aug. 24–Accrue Software, a
  provider of e-business analytic solutions for optimizing visitor response to
  Web-based campaign, content, commerce and affiliate initiatives, announced
  that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pilot Software,
  an industry pioneer in developing Web-enabled decision support and business
  intelligence applications for the enterprise. The acquisition of Pilot Software will further enhance Accrue’s position in the eBusiness
  analytics market through the addition of advanced reporting and OLAP
  technology, talented business intelligence developers and a world-class
  global distribution channel. All of Pilot Software’s outstanding stock will
  be exchanged for approximately 940,000 shares of Accrue common stock.
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Amount:         $13
million

  
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Terms:           
2.6 million shares

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-commerce
enablers

  
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Scorecard:      C

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  SEATTLE, Aug. 24–Network Commerce, a
  provider of technology infrastructure, services and networks for
  businesses, merchants, Internet sites, and wireless networks conducting
  commerce online, announced it has acquired IveBeenGood.com, Inc. (d/b/a
  UberWorks), a subsidiary of Trilogy. UberWorks’ commerce technology gives
  buyers the ability to purchase from multiple e-commerce sites and from
  multiple merchants simultaneously utilizing a personal digital wallet and
  easy unified checkout via PC or wireless phone and other wireless devices
  and will be integrated into Network Commerce’s Consumer and
  Business Networks. Netw
• ork Commerce will acquire Austin, Texas-based
  UberWorks through the issuance of approximately 2.6 million shares of
  common stock.
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