Today’s Deals: Wine.com and WineShopper.com Pop the Cork

  
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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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  FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 15–Sabre Holdings
  announced that it has acquired Gradient Solutions Limited, a Dublin,
  Ireland-based technology company that provides e-commerce solutions to the
  global travel marketplace. Gradient
  Solutions enhances Sabre’s online
  distribution solutions, by bringing an international and highly
  customizable online booking engine. Details of the transaction were not
  disclosed.
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Industry:        Internet
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Scorecard:      C+

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  PALM BEACH, Aug. 15–Applied Digital Solutions, a single-source provider of e-business solutions, announced
  that it has acquired New York-based WebNet Services, an Internet
  service provider, network integrator and website developer. The WebNet acquisition expands the
  palate of Integrated Technology solutions that Applied Digital offers and strengthens the
  Company’s Application Service Provider (ASP) initiative, helping companies
  and institutions of all sizes address and manage e-business projects in the
  fields of general business, agribusiness, retail, education and finance.
  Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Amount:         $158
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Terms:           
100% stock

  
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Premium:        25%

  
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Industry:        Internet
services

  
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Scorecard:      C+

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  NEW YORK, Aug 15–Eagle Wireless Internationalsaid it will merge with ClearWorks.net,
  to create a broadband telecommunications company with domestic and
  international market share. Eagle
  Wireless said it could expand its customer-base to several hundred
  thousand homes in coming years, under the merger with ClearWorks.net, a Houston, Texas-based
  provider of high-speed Internet and other digital services. ClearWorks.net
  shareholders will receive four Eagle Wireless common shares for each five
  Clearworks.net common shares, in a deal worth $158 million.
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Terms:           
100% stock

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-tailers

  
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Scorecard:      C

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  NEWPORT BEACH, Aug. 15–NewBridge Capital
  announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire the assets of
  SkateSurfSnow.com from PacificTradingPost.com. NewBridge will issue
  an undisclosed amount of common stock and warrants for the assets of SkateSurfSnow.com, which operates
  an e-commerce Web site and retail store in Huntington Beach, Calif.,
  serving the fast growing skateboard, surfing and snowboarding markets.
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:        E-tailers

  
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Scorecard:      B+

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  PALO ALTO, Aug. 15–Wine.com and WineShopper.com, two
  of the leading Internet wine stores, said they will merge and build a new
  Web site combining the best features from both companies, and plans to
  operate under the Wine.com name and URL.
  Wine.com was founded back in 1994 and was one of the first online
  retailers, while WineShopper.com
  was just launched in April, with a $30 million investment from
  Amazon.com.
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