Shoutout to @tjack, our angel investor and now partner at First Round 🎉🎉 As a startup founder, Todd is someone you ABSOLUTELY want on your side. https://t.co/bYjF4NJqVU
On February 5, 1998, Comcast moved to exit the cable business in the UK by agreeing to sell its operations there to NTL Inc. for around $600 million in NTL stock plus the assumption of Comcast’s UK debt. Comcast had 1.6 million subscribers there.
Comcast President Brian Roberts said:””While Comcast U.K. has been a leading performer in the U.K. cable and telephone industries, we have determined that long-term success in this market will require greater size and market presence than Comcast U.K. has in its asset base.”
Comcast wouldn’t have a significant European presence again until its 2018 acquisition of the UK-baseed satellite & cable provider SKY.
Tracking new and emerging tech companies in and around Philly has become more interesting and challenging in recent years as the startup ecosystem has blossomed. It’s deeper and more diverse than I can recall. The scene has mushroomed in the past two or three years, though much of the foundation was laid before then. The Philly healthcare sector has provided a particular boost, in terms of both new medicines and information technology.
The PACT Enterprise Awards has a good track record for spotting the best in midstream as they grow.
New Hope-based Meet Group’s (NASDAQ: MEET) shares rose by as much as 21% in New York trading Thursday, and closed Friday at $6.05, for a market cap of $464 million. Match, which is being spun off by IAC/InterActiveCorp, was up 12% at one point on the news yesterday. Its market cap is near $23 billion.
Meet was founded as MyYearbook in 2005 by then high school student Catherine Cook and her brothers, Dave and current CEO Geoff Cook . First Round Capital was an early investor. Meet Group has been smart in positioning itself as a steaming site for people to interact, making good niche acquisitions, and meeting most goals it sets for itself. Geoff Cook, who sold a startup to Thomson while still in college, is very capable. But its relatively small size in the market might raise questions about its future viability as a stand alone company.
Facebook entered the market last Fall with a new app, Facebook Dating..
The German broadcasster ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE was reported to be interested in acquiring Meet Group by Reuters in December.
Friday night scoop: white-hot cloud computing startup Snowflake is raising $479 million at a $12.4 billion valuation from investors Dragoneer and Salesforce, sources tell @ForbesTech. https://t.co/zrSnazoMqo
Amazon has quietly hired the NBCUniversal executive known as ex-CEO Jeff Zucker's 'right-hand man' to lead PR for its original video and streaming services (AMZN) https://t.co/avIixh4y5O#mustreadblogs#feedly
SAIC to Acquire Unisys Federal in Accretive, Strategic and Value Creating Transaction (Press Release)
Creates a leading digital transformation provider to the U.S. government.
Accretive to key financial metrics including organic revenue growth, earnings, and cash.
Adds intellectual property, technology-enabled solutions, and expands customer reach.
$1.2 billion transaction, including tax assets.
February 06, 2020 06:36 AM Eastern Standard Time
RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), a premier technology integrator, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Unisys Federal, in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.2 billion ($1.025 billion net of the present value of tax assets of approximately $175 million), in a highly strategic and value creating transaction. This represents a transaction multiple of approximately 10.5x CY2020 adjusted EBITDA, adjusted for the net present value of tax assets.
“With the addition of Unisys Federal, SAIC will be a leading provider of digitial transformation services and solutions to the federal government. This exciting opportunity advances our strategy by building on our modernization capabilities, increasing customer access, accelerating growth and enhancing shareholder value”Tweet this
Unisys Federal, an operating unit of Unisys (NYSE: UIS), is a leading provider of infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, managed services, and enterprise IT-as-a-service through scalable and repeatable solutions to U.S. federal civilian agencies and the Department of Defense.
“With the addition of Unisys Federal, SAIC will be a leading provider of digitial transformation services and solutions to the federal government. This exciting opportunity advances our strategy by building on our modernization capabilities, increasing customer access, accelerating growth and enhancing shareholder value,” said SAIC CEO Nazzic Keene. “The financial benefits of acquiring Unisys Federal are compelling, including accretion of adjusted EBITDA margins, non-GAAP earnings per share, and cash generation.”
The transaction will further differentiate SAIC in the government services market by deploying technology-enabled, intellectual property-based solutions through a commercial–like service delivery model. The acquisition will further enhance shareholder value through a highly attractive financial profile, enabled through greater customer access and differentiated solutions in areas of higher growth profiles.
Strategic and Financial Benefits
Enhances capabilities in government priority areas, including IT modernization, cloud migration, managed services, and development, security, and operations (DevSecOpps)
Expands portfolio of intellectual property (IP) and technology-driven offerings, that enable government-tailored, commercial-based solutions
Increases access to current and new customers with a strong pipeline of new business opportunities
Highly accretive across all key financial metrics
Transaction Details
SAIC expects to fund the $1.2 billion cash transaction through a combination of cash on hand and incremental debt. The transaction is expected to close by the end of SAIC’s first quarter of fiscal year 2021, ending May 1, 2020, following customary closing conditions, including HSR regulatory clearance. The transaction has been unanimously approved by SAIC’s Board of Directors. The businesses will continue to operate independently until the transaction closes.
Advisors
Guggenheim Securities, LLC acted as lead financial advisor and Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. acted as co-financial advisor to SAIC. King & Spalding LLP served as legal counsel to SAIC. Avascent provided business due diligence and strategy support services.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
SAIC management will hold a conference call at 7:30 a.m. eastern time on February 6, 2020 to discuss the transaction. The conference call will be webcast simultaneously to the public through a link on the Investor Relations section of SAIC’s website (http://investors.saic.com).
After the call concludes, an audio replay can be accessed on SAIC’s Investor Relations website.
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The first Trenton Computer Festival was held on May 2, 1976 at Trenton State College (now the College of New Jersey) in Ewing NJ, outside of Trenton. It was started by Sol Libes of the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey and Allen Katz of The College of New Jersey. It later moved to Mercer County Community College as it grew larger, and in 1999 moved to the NJ Convention Center in Edison, NJ, It returned to the College of New Jersey in 2005.
In the days before the Internet and the presence of most computer retail outlets, user groups and other channels of information, TCF played a particularly important role as a source of learning and knowledge dissemination for the East Coast in the fledgeling microcomputer industry.
TCF has had a notable and varied list of keynote speakers throughout its history, including Bill Gates, Dr. Adam Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mauchly (of ENIAC fame), Eric Raymond, Dr. Ken Iverson, and Gordon E. Eubanks.
In the past a weekend-long event, recently it has been a one-day event held on a Saturday in March.
Not totally clear, but is this another attempt by SoFi to provide bank-like services like it tried a couple of years back, when it tried to obtain a banking charter in Del? https://t.co/S2586KhM55
Vanguard is launching a private-equity fund, part of the money manager’s push to broaden its appeal as a financial adviser for larger investors. https://t.co/42rPirQ99I via @WSJ
What if the process of buying & selling a home at the same time didn't have to be so expensive & stressful? With our newest portco, @Houwzer, it doesn’t! Learn more about CEO @MikeMaherPHL & his team’s differentiated approach here: https://t.co/2mb82z7nzb#realestatetech
"Increasingly, there’s a view among investors that the life sciences and healthcare revolution borne on the back of computational biology and programmable genetics will usher in a wave innovation which will change more than just the healthcare industry." https://t.co/lq24JFAy95
"Coupling GSK’s adjuvant systems with the pioneering platform technology we are funding has the potential to make more vaccine available more rapidly – by decreasing the dose of vaccine antigen required to protect each individual."$GSKhttps://t.co/hvSzyQi9Eh
