From time to time we collect our thoughts on the state of the marketplace as we go about the business of buying and selling "IT/IP" companies.

Sometimes we also reprint articles by others that we have found particularly relevant to the subject. Below are the latest "dispatches from the front" of the mergers and acquisitions business.

• 8/20/2008 : Can You Time M&A?
• 1/22/2008 : Were Buyers Overpaying?
• 11/27/2007 : America for Sale
• 10/31/2007 : Update on Business Intelligence M&A
• 5/25/2007 : What the Harman Deal Means
• 4/2/2007 : EMI's "Bet Your Company" Decision
• 12/18/2006 : PE Groups Buy Entire Industry
• 10/27/2006 : The M&A Thrill Ride
• 8/27/2006 : Remember VOD? Well, It's Back Big Time
• 7/21/2006 : The Evil-Doing Internet
• 7/2/2006 : In Defense of Bad Management
• 5/19/2006 : Data: Its Care, Feeding and Destruction
• 4/2/2006 : Right Outsourcing
• 2/24/2006 : Overseas M&A: Watch the Gotchas
• 2/9/2006 : When to Fold ‘Em
• 1/9/2006 : California Energy Dreamin'
• 10/28/2005 : What Sellers Owe Buyers (Besides Their Companies)
• 9/26/2005 : What Buyers Owe Sellers (Besides Cash)
• 9/5/2005 : Raising the Odds of M&A Success
• 8/5/2005 : Hedge Funds: the PE Party Crasher
• 7/5/2005 : What Comes Around
• 6/12/2005 : The Big Five: Tech Trends That Matter
• 5/3/2005 : 4.2 Million and Counting
• 4/5/2005 : Welcome to the Age of Tech Maturation
• 3/7/2005 : A Tour of VAR-land
• 2/8/2005 : Scientific Journals: More Internet Roadkill?
• 1/10/2005 : Avoiding Bad M&A Mojo II
• 11/24/2004 : Avoiding Bad M&A Mojo
• 10/26/2004 : Buyouts of Buyouts by Buyouts
• 9/23/2004 : Old Media’s Wasting Disease
• 8/18/2004 : Manufacturing Information II
• 7/15/2004 : Manufacturing Information
• 6/16/2004 : Ellison and the Dogs of the DoJ
• 5/19/2004 : The Spring of IPO Tech Brides
• 3/19/2004 : Energy IT: Life Under the Heavy Hand
• 2/19/2004 : M&A Today Event Presentations
• 1/11/2004 : The M&A Round-Up's 2003 Round-Up
• 11/17/2003 : Tech Presses Printers
• 10/12/2003 : Where Does Offshoring End?
• 9/22/2003 : Business Intelligence & SAP Vendor Values Today
• 8/11/2003 : Calculating & Enhancing Market Value
• 7/9/2003 : Doing Deals in Homeland Defense IT
• 6/13/2003 : The State of Energy IT
• 5/1/2003 : A Digital Music Anthology
• 4/7/2003 : The Media at War
• 3/19/2003 : Going-Private Equity
• 2/13/2003 : Regulators Dance on Head of Pin
• 1/29/2003 : Hollywood Versus the World
• 12/15/2002 : Things Are Getting Better All the Time
• 11/15/2002 : The Velvet VC Trap
• 10/15/2002 : Why M&A Advisors Work the Way They Do
• 9/15/2002 : BPO, the Way to Go
• 8/15/2002 : Titanic Advice
• 6/15/2002 : What M&A Takes Today
• 5/15/2002 : Does Big Media Work?
• 4/15/2002 : HP + Compaq = ?
• 1/15/2002 : Let's Make a Deal
• 9/15/2001 : Deal Markets in the Aftermath
• 5/15/2001 : Not All Deals are Created Equal
• 2/15/2001 : What’s Intellectual Property Worth?
• 1/15/2001 : Whither Goest Now, Greenspan?
• 7/15/2000 : Smiling Through the Apocalypse
• 4/15/2000 : Pushing Speed