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Web Hosting Mergers and Acquisitions - February 2008

Laguna Niguel, CA -  Alentus Corporation acquired John Macleod’s AO Technologies’ Columbus Ohio Data Center. It is rumored that Alentus is picking up a company across the pond. AO provides high-end dedicated and streaming media services

Leeds, UK -  Masternaut Three X, acquired FibreCity for GBP 6 million ($12 million USD). Deal added 25,000 sq/ft data center.  The acquisition of FibreCity enables Masternaut Three X to provide more extended hosted back-office solutions.

Dallas, TX - Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS)announced an agreement to acquire sds business services GmbH, a Germany-based provider of data center, infrastructure services, and application-related solutions from Waterland Private Equity Investments. ACS will pay approximately $67 million (euro 46 million), including the assumption of liabilities, to purchase sds. The acquisition is expected to close in March 2008 following regulatory approval.

Charlotte, NC - TITAN Technology Partners, a provider of hosted and managed industry solutions, acquired Singapore based ESP Consulting.  ESP operations is and managed services provider focused on delivering SAP solutions.

Belfast, Ireland - IUTV Media plc today acquired of Tibus, a leading Ireland web development company from Anderson Spratt Group Holdings for GBP 5 million ($10 million USD).

Chevy Chase, MD - Opus8 Inc. affiliate, Clear Day Acquisition Corp., has acquired a controlling interest in Lore Internet Systems. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  Lore services includes, managed datacenter hosting and co-location. The acquisition has approximately doubled Pro Net's size and it is now providing shared and dedicated hosting for over 100,000 domains.

Sao Paulo, Brazil  - Universo Online S.A. (UOL) acquired the "clients" of web hosting company Digiweb  UOL is now the third-largest provider of web-hosting services company in Brazil. See my March 6, 2008 blog for additional information and comment.

Rochester, NY - Layer 8 acquired the Web hosting and information technology support services branch of DigiNex. RACD

Obviously not all inclusive - but from the NCC files.

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Comments
Wow, seems there are a lot of acquisitions happening, what do you think the hosting and internet landscape is going to look like in 3-5 years?
# Posted By Cheap Web Hosting | 3/18/08 3:20 PM
Future landscape of hosting M&A...thank you for the direction to a new blog.
# Posted By Tom Millitzer - NCC | 3/21/08 12:31 PM
No problem, just make sure you reference back to my company ;) j/k!!
# Posted By Cheap Web Hosting | 3/24/08 4:58 PM
 
 

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