Cisco buys Telecom Italia voice tech unit - Bloomberg News: Cisco and other investors buy 80 percent of Italtel. Clayton Dubilier Rice will be majority owner. news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-2178985.html?tag=st
Cisco Defends Its Numbers - InternetWeek: Cisco, analysts, and competitors argue whether StrataCom acquisition was a good idea. www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?CWK19970217S0069
Cisco Mines for Granite - EE Times: Cisco pays $220 million to acquire Andreas Bechtolsheim's gigabit Ethernet start-up Granite Systems. www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?EET19960909S0043
Cisco's Secret: Entrepreneurs Sell Out, Stay Put - Inc. Acquisitions story, a look at how a high-tech giant is buying up small companies and bringing their owners on board, too. www.inc.com/incmagazine/archives/03970201.html
Cisco's Secrets - Fortune: interviews with Mike Volpi, Dan Scheinman, Mimi Gigoux and John Chambers about Cisco's acquisitions strategy. www.fortune.com/fortune/1999/11/08/cis.html
Grand Junction Networks - Fast Company: Tells the story of the Grand Junction acquisition by Cisco in 1995. www.fastcompany.com/online/13/junction.html
Whiz Kid - New York Times: Acquisitions story on Michelangelo (Mike) Volpi: young deal maker is the force behind a company's growth. www.cisco.com/warp/public/750/acquisition/articles/volpi.html