Today’s Deals: Germany’s T-Online Buys Ya.com

  
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Amount:         $73
million

  
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Terms:           
100% cash

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-tailers

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  LONDON, Sept 1–Britain’s biggest home shopping group Great
  Universal Stores Plc said it had agreed to buy Internet retailer
  Jungle.com for US $56 million in cash, including the repayment of
  around US $17 million in debt. Privately-held Jungle.com, which had intended to float
  before valuations of Internet retail stocks plunged, sells computers, music
  and games online. With the acquisition, GUS will be able to offer its customers
  a wide range of computer and office products via the most convenient
  channel, be it ordering via store, catalogue or Internet.
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Amount:       &nb

sp; $448
million

  
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Terms:           
15.25 million shares/$88 million cash

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        ISPs/Access
providers

  
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Scorecard:      A-

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  MADRID, Spain, Sept. 4–Deutsche Telekom AG,
  through its subsidiary, T-Online International AG, acquires
  Ya.com Internet Factory from Jazztel p.l.c.. Ya.com is a rapidly growing
  ISP/Portal in the Iberian peninsula and is currently the number two in the
  Spanish portal market. The financial, managerial and technical synergies
  that can be realized through the acquisition will enhance the development
  of Ya.com and will further reinforce T-Online’s strategy to be the leading
  European ISP. T-Online will issue 15.25 million new shares and US $88
  million in cash, valuing Ya.com at approximately US $488 million.
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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:        Performance
software

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  SUNNYVALE, Sept. 1–iEngineer.com, an application service
  provider (ASP) and developer of Rich Data Transfer and secure intellectual
  property management technology, and Vuent, a provider of enterprise,
  web-centric software for 3D visual collaboration, jointly announced that iEngineer has acquired Vuent. The acquisition will permit the
  company to Vuent’s strong technologies, domain experience, and financial
  assets, to bring the web’s first Rich Data Collaboration Platform to
  market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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