synopsis: Nortel Networks Corporation announced that it has concluded a successful auction of all of Nortel’s remaining patents and patent applications. After a multi-day auction, a consortium consisting of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony emerged as the winner with a bid of $4.5 billion.

synopsis: AT Conference, Inc., a leading provider of audio and web conferencing services, today announced it has completed the acquisition of ‘A Professional Conference Call’ of Duluth, GA.

synopsis: Arkadin, a leading provider of collaboration solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ConferencePlus, Inc., a conferencing services provider and a subsidiary of Westell Technologies, Inc. ConferencePlus provides Arkadin with a complementary set of services and an expanded presence in North America and Europe.

synopsis: BT has agreed to acquire Wire One Holdings Inc. (“Wire One”), one of the leading providers of videoconferencing solutions in the United States. It is intended that Wire One will form the core of BT Conferencing’s video services unit.

synopsis: AT&T Inc. announced the completion of the acquisition of Interwise, a leading global provider of Internet Protocol (IP)-based voice, Web and video conferencing services. In parallel, AT&T announced the launch of AT&T Connect, the first in a planned series of converged AT&T-branded voice, video and web conferencing products and services.

synopsis: MACH, the leading global clearing and settlement partner for mobile based transactions, has announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire CB Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Cibernet; a leading mobile roaming, clearing and business solutions provider.

synopsis: Syniverse Technologies, a global communications technology company, today announced it has completed the acquisition of EDS Interoperator Services North America (EDS IOS). EDS IOS was owned by Electronic Data Systems, Inc. (EDS). The purchase price was $53.7 million payable in cash, including working capital adjustments.

synopsis: Atlantic Bridge Ventures, a European multi-stage technology private equity fund, has led a consortium of private equity buyers in the acquisition of LogicaCMG's Telecoms Products business, for a cash consideration of GBP265m (EUR392m).

synopsis: Nortel Networks Corporation announced that it has concluded a successful auction of all of Nortel’s remaining patents and patent applications. After a multi-day auction, a consortium consisting of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony emerged as the winner with a bid of $4.5 billion.

synopsis: GENBAND, a leading developer of next-generation networking solutions and services, announced the completion of its acquisition of substantially all assets of the Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions Business (CVAS).

synopsis: Hitachi, Ltd. announced it has acquired next generation packet core network components, including software products that support the transfer of data over existing wireless networks and the next generation of wireless communications technology, from Nortel Networks Limited, Nortel Networks Inc. and Nortel Networks Technology Corporation.

synopsis: Bluesocket, Inc., the leader in trusted wireless access and enterprise mobility, announced that the business of its Pingtel Corp. subsidiary, a recognized leader in open source enterprise unified communications solutions, has been acquired by Nortel. Pingtel employees will be integrated into Nortel’s Billerica, Massachusetts facilities.

synopsis: PEC Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ NM:PECS) announced today that the company has acquired AC Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a long-term provider of information technology solutions to the federal government.

synopsis: Telecom equipment maker Ericsson said it had struck a deal to buy Microsoft Corp's Mediaroom IPTV business, which makes software used by phone companies to deliver television over the Internet. The deal would make Ericsson, already the world's biggest mobile networks maker, the leading provider of IPTV with a 25 percent market share.

synopsis: Microsoft Corporation has acquired social-monitioring analytics vendor Netbreeze GmbH and is readying the next two updates to its Dynamics CRM platform. Netbreeze's social-monitoring analytics, language processing, and text-mining technologies allow decision makers to tackle strategic questions by semantically analyzing and evaluating web content.

synopsis: Microsoft has bought Pando, a file-sharing technology that works peer-to-peer (P2P), similar to bit-torrent. It’s also a content delivery network that can host assets for websites, similar to Amazon Web Services.

synopsis: Facebook Inc. will buy Microsoft Corp.'s Atlas ad-serving business, adding to the technologies that power its advertising capabilities. With a Facebook ad server, advertisers and agencies will be able to connect directly to the social network to place ads.

synopsis: Microsoft Corp bought start-up id8 Group R2 Studios Inc as it looks to expand further in technology focused on the home and entertainment. id8 Group R2 Studios has launched a Google Android application to allow users to control home heating and lighting systems from smartphones.

synopsis: Microsoft has acquired MarketingPilot, a developer of integrated marketing applications. The MarketingPilot software will become part of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. MarketingPilot develops integrated software for marketing departments and ad agencies that help them manage and execute all their marketing campaigns and activities.

synopsis: Microsoft Corp. and PhoneFactor Inc. announced that Microsoft has acquired PhoneFactor, a recognized leader in multifactor authentication solutions. Founded in 2001, PhoneFactor is trusted by hundreds of leading organizations to help secure millions of logins and transactions each year.

synopsis: Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software application, lifecycle and content management solutions, announced the acquisition of the Fiddler Web Debugger, a popular tool created to inspect web traffic and ‘fiddle’ with incoming or outgoing data.

synopsis: NBC News President Steve Capus announced that NBC News is now the full owner and operator of Msnbc Digital Network, which includes msnbc.com, TODAY.com, NightlyNews.com, BreakingNews.com, Newsvine.com, EveryBlock.com, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties.

synopsis: Edgewater Fullscope has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Microsoft Corporation. The company provides Microsoft Dynamics AX and CRM implementation and training services, specializes in the process and discrete manufacturing space, and creates private label IP that augments the Microsoft Dynamics AX product for process manufacturers.

synopsis: Microsoft announced that they have completed the acquisition Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer is a leading provider of enterprise social networks with over 5 million verified corporate users.

synopsis: Microsoft Studios has acquired Press Play ApS which is a small Copenhagen, Denmark-based games studio. Its more well known games include Max & the Magic Marker and Tentacles.

synopsis: LeGuide.com Group, a pan-European publisher of online shopping guides, comparison websites and the like, has acquired online shopping portal Ciao from Microsoft. At Ciao, consumers can obtain all the online shopping information they need from one source.

synopsis: Microsoft has announced the acquisition of video discovery technology company VideoSurf Inc. Founded in 2006, VideoSurf offers a back-end computer vision technology that "sees" frames inside videos to make discovering content fast, easy and accurate.

synopsis: Orion Health's wholly owned subsidiary Orion Health Asia Pacific has signed an agreement to purchase Microsoft’s Hospital Information System (HIS) software assets, previously known as Amalga HIS. Amalga centralizes digital information of all types into a single, continually updated repository that is available for analysis and data sharing.

synopsis: Pendrell Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Pendrell Technologies LLC, has completed its acquisition of a controlling interest in ContentGuard Holdings, Inc., a leading inventor, developer and licensor of digital rights management (DRM) and related content distribution patents and technologies.

synopsis: Nortel Networks Corporation announced that it has concluded a successful auction of all of Nortel’s remaining patents and patent applications. After a multi-day auction, a consortium consisting of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony emerged as the winner with a bid of $4.5 billion.

synopsis: Microsoft Corp. has closed its acquisition of Skype Global S.a r.l. Skype is the leading Internet communications company. With an Internet-connected device, families, friends and colleagues can get together for free with messaging, voice and video using Skype.

synopsis: Microsoft has acquired Vivaty, a virtual world competing with Second Life. The company’s Web-based virtual platform provides users to personalize their own virtual scene and avatar, and socialize with their friends.

synopsis: Microsoft Corp. and Phase One A/S, a leader in digital photography, are announcing that Phase One acquired the Microsoft Expression Media product. Expression Media is a leading digital asset management application used to catalog and organize photos, video and music for effortless retrieval, presentation and sharing.