Who Will Cisco Acquire Next?

[Audioholics]

<A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/CiscoAcquisitions.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 95px; HEIGHT: 76px" alt=[Cisco1] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/Cisco1_th.gif" align=left border=0></A>Speculation is heating up about who Cisco will acquire (or partner with) next. The network and communications giant of Silicon Valley isn’t shy about buying companies to leverage its position into home electronics. In 2003 Cisco bought Linksys bringing it into the home network market. Cisco is now closing a 6.9 billion dollar deal for PVR set-top-box manufacturer Scientific-Atlanta (SA). The companies are set to close on this deal in the next couple of months. Counting Cisco’s recent purchase of Danish company Kiss Technology for a cool $61 million cash, SA was the third home electronics acquisition for Cisco. Now the speculation is: Who's next? Read on for more...

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[Sleestack]

LOL. I used to be one of Cisco's lead M&A attorneys. I worked on dozens of investments and was part of a small team that completed over 26 acquisitons in a 3 year period.

Glad to see they are back to their old buying ways.

 

[Naves74]

Cisco just dumped a boat load of money in to Crossbow Network solutions which could have all kinds of implication on the home theater market. Would be cool if some of crossbow's systems were integrated into home theater but that is a long long way off and probablly will never happen.

 

[mustang_steve]

Hey, if any of you guys Remember Latitude Communications (made a tele-conferencing and web-conferencing product called MeetingPlace), I was the "younger half" of the manufacturing team (yeah, we were that small, but we pushed out insane product)....well Guess who's name is on it now?

It's still a darn good product too...they didn't mess with it, just put their paint/logo on it, and moved the manufacturing to a contract DF facility.

At the least, the transistion period at Cisco was pretty nice...they really do treat their employees well. Free sodas/water/juices, a really nice cafeteria, free public transit passes, free gym, etc.