WIREDVC: BC and SilverLink feel good on MultiPlan purchase

BC Partners and SilverLake have today announced their agreement to acquire MultiPlan, a US healthcare claims processor and cost management business. MultiPlan ...

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WIREDVC: Intel Inside: SilverLake snap up Data Center

Menlo Park, California based SilverLake Partners have just bought Intel's Santa Clara data center for an undisclosed sum. A new company, Vantage Data Centers ...

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Skype New Chair Appointment: Smart Move GigaOM

Skype has signaled its intentions to aggressively build out its mobile business by appointing former Sony Ericsson President Miles Flint to chair its board. He's an adviser to Silver Lake Partners, which led a group of private investors in taking a stake in Skype as it resolved its legal mess last fall.

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eBay Sells Skype for $1.9 billion - TIME

The deal transfers ownership of the Internet-based telephony from eBay to an investor consortium led by Silver lake Partners and including the Canada Pension Plan.

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eBay Sells 65% Skype Ownership for $2.025 Billion

eBay is cashing in - They finally sell Skype for a deal that value it at $2.75 billion, as confirmed by TechCrunch. The new investors - a group led by Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm - will buy approximately 65% of Skype, while the res

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Skype sold. Silver Lakes is one of the investors. Silver Lak

A small group of venture capital funds have agreed with eBay to acquire a majority stake in Skype. The group is led by Silver Lake Partners, joined by Index and

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Ebay Sells Skype - Straight News from the Direct Source

A small group of venture capital funds have agreed with eBay to acquire a majority stake in Skype. The group is led by Silver Lake Partners, joined by Index and Andreessen Horowitz Ventures. You may recognize some names – for example Danny Rimer and Mike Volpi (both at Index Ventures) who were some of the earliest Board members and supporters...

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Report: eBay selling Skype to investors

The NYT reports that a new venture capital firm headed by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen – called Andreessen Horowitz - could one of the investors in the deal, along with Index Ventures and Silver Lake Partners. Ebay famously outbid both Yahoo and Google in 2005 to buy Skype – an online telephony service which enjoys global popularity.

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FT.com / UK - Lovefilm focuses on buy-out talks

Lovefilm, the DVD mailorder rental company, is in talks with private equity firms including KKR and Silver Lake Partners about buying out existing shareholders and providing support for expansion, people with direct knowledge of its strategy said yesterday.

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14th Annual Wharton PE & VC Conference

*The* premier student run PE&VC conference. Keynotes: David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group), Dick Kramlich (NEA), and Guy Hands, (Terra Firma). Panelists include partners from TPG, KKR, Silver Lake, 3i, ATV, Atlas, Polaris, Intel Capital, Bain Capital, Welsh Carson, and the NVCA.

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