Though ExactTarget is likely to be the headliner this week, there are two other deals that also could draw interest: payment processor Vantiv Inc. and electronic exchange BATS Global Markets.
Coming off yet another nondescript season at age 34, Collins, a former Stanford player, would normally figure to draw minimal interest.
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Bloomberg raises that possibility this morning in a highly speculative piece, suggesting that Jive could draw takeover interest from SAP or Oracle, among others.
He may one day draw similar interest from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, for rarely has a failed state escaped political bankruptcy so fast (see article).
Darryl Sterling, an analyst at the Yankee Group, a telecom consulting firm in Boston, expects the December auction to draw some interest from big carriers seeking to fill in gaps in national coverage or lesser ones trying to expand in small markets.
Zynga could make money off this endeavor by licensing TV rights for Draw Something to CBS and also see renewed interest in Draw Something, which could lead to a bump in activity as the show goes on air.
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Revis, recovering from a major knee injury, is expected to draw plenty of interest on the trade market.
The Treasury Department is selling 1-month, 1-year and 2-year bills and notes in auctions that should draw plenty of interest with traders steering clear of equities.
Further, platinum is a smaller market that tends to draw less investment interest than in gold, said Sterling Smith, analyst and commodity trading adviser with Country Hedging.
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Moreover, firms are starting to draw down the carried interest well in advance of a fund's termination -- typically ten years -- realizing those gains when a company in the portfolio goes public or gets bought out.
Sharply higher crude oil prices and a weaker U.S. dollar index helped to draw investor and trader buying interest to the precious metals Thursday.
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Though it may well be able to float debt locally at nosebleed rates of interest, any attempts to draw in larger institutional investors from around the world assumes that Greece will still issue debt denominated in euros.
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No statement or action by President Bush could do more to demonstrate his determination to safeguard the national interest or to draw the right lessons from the conflict with Saddam Hussein than an announcement to the Joint Session of Congress tonight that he will at once begin the active defense of the United States.
Kramnik lost, 4-2 to the multi-processor version of Chessbase's commercial software in Bonn, Germany. (To Kramnik's credit, in 2002, he'd held Deep Fritz to a draw.) However, this match may end interest in further advancing the field of chess-playing computers, according to Monty Newborn, a professor of computer science at McGill University.
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One drawback of a fixed-rate reverse mortgage is that you have to draw down the entire loan amount up front and pay interest on the entire amount across the life of the loan.
Historically low interest rates and a volatile stock market have helped draw buyers.
Rather it was to draw attention to the extraordinary and improbable power of self-interest: this stunted, inward-looking trait is transformed, through spontaneous social co-operation, into a force for the common good.
In this high-tech era when money moves at the speed of light, it makes less and less sense for banks to sit on a customer's deposit for days, collecting interest on the "float" while the depositor waits to draw on his deposit.
Sotheby's says it expects huge interest in the piece, which it says has the potential to draw visitors from around the world to any collection which stumps up the cash to buy it.
If some seekers of truth find themselves dismayed by the factual squabbling between the author and his online competition, American patriots may draw some comfort from the way in which he has tailored his text to the American interest.
We aim to completely change their lack of visibility, to harness existing interest and activity, and especially work to involve more isolated scientists and teams, and to draw in new young scientists as well as those from developing countries.
The climax to their qualifying campaign was the emotionally charged 2-2 draw with Croatia in Zagreb - a result that saw them qualify as group leaders and ended their fierce rivals' interest in the competition.
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