Alcatel-Lucent stepped up to the plate today and made an offer to acquire all the shares of Motive for $2.23 per share. Only a fool wouldn’t take that. That share price makes the purchase price about $68M. The company has about $32M in current assets, which means that the company’s value as an entity that produces $18M per quarter in sales (with no margin) is worth $36M. The company’s troubles started when they built a [...]

Austin-based OneSpot is officially coming out of stealth mode today. OneSpot is a tool that allows publishers to automatically discover and publish fresh, relevant content to their online properties. Give OneSpot a list of high quality exemplar blogs, and OneSpot will search through thousands of blogs and score them based upon a patent-pending link scoring algorithm. The highest quality stories get published on your website. One of the first customers they’re announcing is TheRoot.com, the [...]