Today’s Deals: Wine.com Goes Global

  
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Amount:        
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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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  BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 16–click2learn.com, the open e-Learning Network, has acquired 3 Dog
  Multimedia, a developer of custom e-Learning content in Santa Cruz,
  Calif. The move enables click2learn to expand its burgeoning
  West Coast business, adding a seasoned, professional services team that
  will better enable click2learn.com to meet the market’s need for
  custom-built e-Learning solutions. Terms of the transaction were not
  disclosed.
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Amount:         $87
million

  
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Terms:           
4.63 million shares/$17.4 million cash

  
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Premium:        n/a

  
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Industry:       
Consultants/Designers

  
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Scorecard:      B

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  TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 16–Delano Technology, a provider of interaction-based e-business solutions for the
  enterprise, announced it has acquired Kansas-based Digital
  Archaeology, a provider of advanced analytics for e-business, in a deal
  valued at $87 million. The acquisition enables Delano to bring to market a single
  solution that tightly integrates Digital
  Archaeology’s analytical products with Delano’s industry leading
  e-business platform and electronic Customer Relationship Management (eCRM)
  applications, providing enterprises with a one-stop-shopping opportunity
  for intelligently managing interactions across the enterprise with
  customers, partners, suppliers, and employees. Delano is issuing 4,630,462
  shares of its common stock and $17.4 million in cash.
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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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  SAN JOSE, Oct. 16–Datalink.net, a
  Wireless Application Service Provider and infrastructure architect,
  announced the acquisition of WaresOnTheWeb, an established provider
  of e-commerce solutions to leading retailers, distributors, and
  manufacturers. By leveraging existing technological expertise and ASP
  market presence, WaresOnTheWeb
  is ideally positioned to deliver an unparalleled suite of wired and
  wireless solutions that seamlessly connect enterprises to markets. The
  purchase is a stock-for-stock transaction of Datalink.net stock with a performance
  earn-out. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Industry:       
Advertising/Marketing

  
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Scorecard:      C+

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  WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Oct. 16–ValueClick, a provider of pay-for-performance advertising solutions,
  announced the acquisition of StraightUP!, a marketing analysis firm
  with powerful, patented technology for tracking and reporting both
  immediate- and long-term marketing results across all media channels. The
  acquisition is the latest in a series of recent moves by ValueClick to further expand the tools
  available to direct marketers and advertisers seeking to both maximize and
  quantify the return on their marketing investments, with StraightUP! products providing
  performance-based accountability to advertisers.
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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:        E-tailers

  
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Scorecard:      A-

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  NAPA, Oct. 16–Wine.com, an online wine destination,
  announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire European
  Wine Exchange GmbH (EWX), a pioneering e-commerce company addressing
  both the business-to-consumer and business-to-business market in Germany.
  The acquisition of EWX is the first in a series of steps wine.com is taking to secure a leadership
  position in the European market. The EWX site will be integrated into the
  wine.com U.S. site in 2001 and will serve the German wine market via the
  URL (www.wine.de) with an internationally sourced collection of quality
  wines.
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