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IT Week Reports on Second Quarter Acquisitions

<a title="Buying Activity Reaches Peak" href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/crn/news/2160944/buying-activity-reaches-peak" target="_blank">IT Week reports</a> that, according to Regent Associates' European Technology Acquisition Review, M&amp;A deal volume is at its peak, beating an earlier high set in Q4 of 2005.&nbsp; Regent also noted that the total value of deals completed in the first half of 2006&nbsp;versus the same period in 2005 has more than doubled.&nbsp; Significant deals included&nbsp;EMC's acquisition of&nbsp;RSA Security,&nbsp;Secure Computing's acquisition of&nbsp;CipherTrust; and SurfControl's acquistion of&nbsp;BlackSpider. 9 application/xml false BlackSpider CipherTrust EMC RSA Security Secure Computing SurfControl technology M&A technology mergers and acquisitions Updata Capital initiated the transaction, acted as financial advisor and negotiated the terms of the transaction for SurfControl plc. http://updataadvisors.com/transactions.asp?newsid=167 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 fbartolomey 208.82.213.22 false true false false true 125361 blog blogsite/UpdataAdvisors/web