Merger and Acquisition of Organizations

Merger and Acquisition

This topic is really very interesting. In this competitive business world, every organization is trying to compete with others with their own ways.Some organizations are trying to compete with others by increasing their market stake and some are trying to reduce the competitors.

Oracle
Yes, Oracle wants to be a leader in the market and has picked up more than 20 companies in last few years and continuously increasing its ownership stake in several others. Oracle purchased
customer relationship management (CRM) giant Siebel Systems
PeopleSoft, BEA Systems
The list of all these strategic acquisition by Oracle is available at http://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisition.html
$13.9 billion acquisition of outsourcing giant EDS by Hewlett-Packard, indicates HP is walking on the same path led by Oracle. HP wants to make footprint in services side and had taken a very big step by this acquisition. Recently EDS had acquired Mphasis.

MindTree Consulting Ltd
MindTree Consulting Ltd has stated its intention of becoming a billion dollar company without providing a timeframe. And the easiest way to achieve this is to acquire majors in various other sectors. Mindtree is trying to acquire Aztecsoft Ltd and is in talk with management


Cognizant Technology Solutions 
Cognizant Technology Solutions has taken over T-Systems India and its 1,150 employees। In effect, Cognizant will become T-Systems’ supplier for offshore services from India।

Microsoft and Yahoo
Microsoft again failed to buy Yahoo and as a result, Yahoo's share price crashed like anything। Microsoft wants to be a leader in Internet search and trying to acquire Yahoo.

HSBC and IL
HSBC India has acquired retail brokerage house IL&FS Investsmart Ltd in a bid . HSBC, after picking up 73.21% stake in Investsmart for $241.6 million, will make an open offer to acquire up to 20% of the remaining shares in the company. Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) Investsmart is already listed on the NSE and BSE in India. This acquisition will be used by HSBC as a distribution channel for asset management and forthcoming insurance operations.

Religare Capital Markets

The broking arm of financial services company Religare Enterprises Ltd (REL), has acquired 97.76 per cent stake in UK based broking firm Hichens Harrison & Co Plc, for around £56 million in cash.
We will update you on the latest news about acquisition and mergers in this section.

iGate and Patni

iGate is in talk with Patni computers for buying it. The deal seems to be successful.

GenPact and Headstrong

The IT company Headstrong having corporate office in Noida is in news as GenPact is buying it,

Cairn and Vedanta

Vedanta will be buying 51% stake in Cairn

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Tic Tac Toe Fun Game

Tic Tac Toe is a simple mind game that can be played almost anywhere.

For playing it, you need a matrix of 3 X 3, you can draw it on paper. At a time two players can play it.
Players has to select(mark) one symbol in each cell. The final goal is to have three of same symbol in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally

The first person chooses to use either X's or O's on his turn and pass the turn to Player 2
The players take turns putting their symbol on the grid.
The first player to have 3 of the symbols in a row, whether it is horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, is the winner.

Tic Tac Toe is normally played with strategy.
The main strategy is to start first and mark the center cell with your symbol.
If both the players are good in this game, there are more chances of draw.


The game is available at following link You can download it and freely distribute it.
How to Play :

When you start the game, you will see following screen

Status bar shows the name of the player and his symbol.
Also it shows the player's name highlighted in red whose turn is on. Once player 1, mark his symbol, the status bar shows next player name highlighted as shown in following figure

Now player 2 has to play his turn. After each turn, the intelligent game checks, if the latest action makes teh player a winner or the game is draw.

Following is the screen when Player 1 won the game

There are chances of Draw. If the game resulted in Draw, the screen will look like

Following is the list of activity for menu click

File-> New => To start new game

File -> Exit =>  To close the game

Level -> Easy =>  To select easy difficulty level of the game

Level -> Medium =>  To select medium difficulty level of the game

Level -> Difficult =>  To select Difficult difficulty level of the game.

Help -> Help => To get help on this game

Help -> About => details about me :)

Please report any issues/bugs on my mail Id or in comments (developerpradipegmail.com).

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