Tim has primary responsibility for product development, operations and overall commercial activity for the financial markets group at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He is the founder of the M&A KnowledgeBase, a tech-focused M&A transactions database that covers telecom and technology deals across more than 650 technology segments. The KnowledgeBase is the cornerstone offering of the financial markets group; the team also recently launched a database of private, independent enterprise technology companies that complements the KnowledgeBase. Tim joined the company in 2003 when 451 Research acquired his startup, M&A data provider Webmergers. Prior to establishing Webmergers in 2000, Tim spent five years as president of New Media Resources, a consulting firm for interactive media startups. Before starting New Media Resources, Tim spent five years in corporate development at Ziff Communications, assisting senior management in acquisitions research, strategic planning and development of online products. Tim has studied interactive services through a fellowship at the Gannett Center for Media at Columbia University in New York.
NGP has formed a fourth investment fund of $350m targeted at investments in startups in the Internet of Things (IoT) arena, specifically, connected enterprises, cars, digital health and consumer solutions.
In a prank similar to Google's notorious April Fools' jokes, a press release was published saying that Google had acquired Wi-Fi provider ICOA for $400m. However, neither side claims the joke was theirs.
In just a decade, we've already entered 30,000 transactions in our M&A database. And the pace of dealmaking is only picking up.
Brenon Daly, Research Director for 451 Research's M&A practice, presents our annual M&A Outlook webinar. To get a sense of what we might see in tech M&A in 2012, we will look back on the previous year to highlight some of the trends and marquee transactions that we expect to continue to shape the market. Our webinar draws on numbers from the 451 M&A KnowledgeBase and insight from our analysts, as well as forecasts that key members of the tech deal community (corporate development executives and senior investment bankers) gave in two recent surveys we conducted.
As of today, the number of year-to-date technology acquisitions has surpassed the level for the entire year of 2010, driven primarily by Internet, mobile and software transactions.
451 Research M&A Research Director Brenon Daly, Analyst Ben Kolada and VP of Financial Markets Tim Miller present a 60-minute webinar covering M&A and IPO activity, trends we've seen so far this year, and what we expect for the remainder of 2011. The webinar includes insight from 451 Research analysts, the latest numbers from our recently re-launched M&A KnowledgeBase and fresh survey results from corporate-development professionals about their expectations for deal flow in light of the current economic and business uncertainty.
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