138459 Resource 125361 126221 200444 1155674663316 1214507728711 Controlled Software M&A Up Almost 16 Percent Over 2005

InformationWeek reports on year-to-date mergers and acquisitions activity in the information technology sector.

<p>As reported in <a title="Tech Acquisitions Up" href="http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191800521&subSection=Best+Practices" target="_blank">InformationWeek</a>, according to Capital IQ, a Standard &amp; Poor's division, there were more than 450 mergers and acquisitions during the second quarter in IT services and enterprise software, security, and storage.&nbsp; M&amp;A transactions among IT companies in the first half of 2006 grew by 15.6 percent over 2005.&nbsp; </p><p><a title="Updata Capital Home" href="http://www.updatacapital.com/">Updata Capital</a> is a leading advisor to mid-market information technology companies, completing 11 transactions&nbsp;so far in 2006, representing 37.5 percent&nbsp;growth in activity over the same period in 2005.&nbsp;</p> 9 application/xml false Capital IQ InformationWeek Software M&A Standard & Poor's Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Updata Capital Recent IT M&A transactions completed by Updata Capital http://updataadvisors.com/transactions.asp?year=2006 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