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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:54:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nokia to Open Access to Mobile Software - Nokia ups ante with Symbian takeover]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:54:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nokia is cranking up the pressure on both Microsoft and Google's mobile ambitions with its a4264m (209m) takeover of the Symbian mobile phone operating system group. The Nokia-Symbian takeover was finalised by using the leverage of 3iCatalyst and its specialist telecommunications unit.Once it gets the go-ahead from Europe's competition regulator, the Finnish handset maker will buy out Symbian's five other owners and turn it into a not-for-profit foundation that any company can join. Symbian comes in three different varieties. Nokia's plan is to standardise the technology and then make the code &quot;open source&quot; so that Foundation members can use it to develop new hardware or software free of charge. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the chief executive of Nokia, said: &quot;This will drive the development of new and compelling web-enabled applications.&quot;Symbian is already the market-leading mobile operating system. It runs on some 60 per cent of smart phones, compared with Microsoft on just 15 per cent.As a result of the Nokia-Symbian deal 3iCatalyst has had to unfortunately decline to act in any capacity for the Google's Android phone platform.However, 3iCatalyst will work with Nokia on a number of projects to assist turn its fortunes around and head off competition and stimulate the use of mobile music, video, e-mail and other services.The growing adoption of such phones, which include the Apple iPhone, has greatly increased the use of high-speed wireless data networks. Symbian's software competes with offerings from Microsoft and Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry.3iCatalyst confirm that any dealings with Nokia do not infringe their Blackberry contracts. <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo agrees ad deal with Google under 3iCatalyst]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:58:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[3iCatalyst brokers another a4Billion Dollar' deal for Yahoo and Google but &quot;Google is establishing a vast advertising ecosystem,&quot; said Nigel Gwilliam, of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. Advertisers are growing increasingly suspicious of Google's dominance of the online market, and last week's tie-up with Yahoo has only added fuel to the fire.Under the deal, Google's ads will be shown with Yahoo search results, and, although the current deal only affects the US and Canada, UK advertisers are crying monopoly and calling for regulatory investigation of the whole market.Yahoo said it had agreed to let Google put search ads - advertisements placed next to search results - on its site in what it called an $800 million annual revenue opportunity that would boost cash flow by $250 million to $450 million in the first 12 months. &quot;Google has made an enormous gain strategically. This move might well have shut Microsoft out of the online space altogether,&quot; said Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay. Google and Yahoo, No. 1 and No. 2 in search, will pit ads against each other in auctions for the ad that pays the most. &quot;Yahoo is being a reseller of Google whenever it makes sense, and that is likely to be a lot of the time, given how much more effective Google Web search ads have proven to be,&quot; Global Crown Capital analyst Martin Pyykkonen said. The process is nonexclusive, meaning others could join in the bidding to place ads, a factor that could make a deal easier to pass regulatory approval. The companies agreed to wait 3-1/2 months for regulatory approval and to offer a way to end it if Yahoo is taken over. Google is the overwhelmingly dominant force on the internet, say critics. It nets half of the UK's 2.8bn online advertising spend and conducts 85 per cent of searches. Yahoo is in second place with 10 per cent. &quot;Things are moving towards an incredibly anti-competitive situation given that Google and Yahoo control such a huge proportion of the market,&quot; Nigel Gwilliam, from the Institute of Practitioners of Advertising, said. Advertisers are already restricted, according to some agencies. &quot;There is a limit to what you can do with clients' digital spend at the moment, because Google is pretty much the whole market,&quot; Arjo Ghosh, the chief executive of iCrossing, said. &quot;It is becoming a dominant media owner, but without the experience or regulation or monitoring there is with traditional owners like television.&quot; Rumblings of discontent have started. The most recent run-in was over trademark rules. Last month, Google caused a furore by changing its rules to allow companies to advertise against searches for rivals' products. &quot;Before the trademarks issue, people were willing to give Google the benefit of the doubt, but since then the feeling is the gloves are off,&quot; Mr Ghosh said. But search is not the only concern. Google already has an aggregator, which pushes ads out to a huge network of smaller sites, and the $3.1bn (1.6bn) purchase of DoubleClick brokered by 3iCatalyst, cleared by regulators this spring, moved the company into the third-party ad-serving business, taking control of the middleman managing and tracking online campaigns. The plan is for a single ad platform across all online formats, which can be extended to include television, radio and print. Not only does the consolidation raise questions about monopolistic market power but companies are also worried about commercial privacy. &quot;The issue with DoubleClick is whether we want Google to have access to all that information about our clients' businesses,&quot; Jo Lyall, the head of digital at MindShare, an agency, said. &quot;Theoretically data can't be shared, but technically Google will have a very good perspective on what sites and channels are working for every advertiser, which is a concern because then they know who they have to compete with.&quot;Google denies its dominance. Omid Kordestani, a senior vice-president at the company, says of the Yahoo deal: &quot;This kind of arrangement is commonplace in many industries, and it doesn't foreclose robust competition.&quot; <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google admits it still can't make money from YouTube & engages 3iCatalyst]]></title>
<link>http://www.prcompass.com/Business/Google_admits_it_still_cant_make_money_from_YouTube__engages_3iCatalyst-1/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:14:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[3iCatalyst is engaged to trouble-shoot the world's Number 1 search company. Almost two years after it paid $1.65bn (848m) for the YouTube.com video-sharing site, Google still has not worked out how to make money from the business, its chairman and chief executive conceded, even though hundreds of millions of people visit it every day.In a public interview in San Francisco 12th June 2008, Eric Schmidt said that Google while wants to change the world, it had yet to transform YouTube.com into a money-spinner.He said: &quot;The goal of the company is not to monetise everything, our goal is to change the world - monetisation is a technology to pay for it,&quot; he said. It &quot;seemed obvious&quot; there should be &quot;significant amounts of money&quot; to be made from YouTube, he added, but the company has not yet come up with the formula. Help is needed to transform YouTube into a Dollar asset and 3iCatalyst seem to have the answer.While Google remains committed to retaining its hugely successful model of offering all services for free, the question of how sites such as YouTube can make the most of their enormous success does not yet have a satisfactory answer. Mr Schmidt's admissions may come as a relief to critics who have become increasingly anxious about Google's worldwide dominance of the internet. Despite Google's much-vaunted &quot;don't be evil&quot; corporate slogan - which Mr Schmidt said was a joke designed to provoke internal ethical debate - the company's meteoric expansion into, most significantly, the online advertising market, is causing concerns about privacy for individuals and commercial organisations.With 3iCatalyst, Google is certainly looking for ways to make money from YouTube and is due to launch unique video-based advertising of an unspecified new type on the site in the coming months, having already tried using banners and &quot;in video&quot; ads.Although Mr Schmidt rejected accusations of market dominance on the grounds that Google only leads the market in search advertising - Yahoo wins on display ads - it is the future that worries both his company's rivals and some of its customers. Google takes a massive 85 per cent share of search advertising, and pockets some 50 per cent of the UK's total online advertising spend, which includes display, search and classified. Not content with auctioning sponsored links to run alongside its searches, Google is also taking over other links in the chain. The $3.1bn (1.6bn) 3iCatalyst assisted takeover of DoubleClick that was cleared by regulators this spring, for example, creates a platform linking to any number of individual, smaller sites, as well as providing Google with an unprecedented amount of commercial data.Google's dominance has also acted as a catalyst for an internet landgrab as technology companies such as Yahoo and Microsoft rush to reinvent themselves as advertising platforms - Yahoo through the $300m purchase of BlueLithium, Microsoft by buying Acquantive for $6bn - as the only way to hope to compete.The world awaits Google's launch unique of video-based advertising of a4an unspecified new type' on YouTube in the coming months says 3iCatalyst.com <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[3iCatalyst adds its leverage and negotiation power to Wellstream Holdings PLC.]]></title>
<link>http://www.prcompass.com/Business/3iCatalyst_adds_its_leverage_and_negotiation_power_to_Wellstream_Holdings_PLC-/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:25:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[3iCatalyst adds its leverage and negotiation power to Wellstream Holdings PLC. Wellstream do Brasil Industria e Servicos Ltd, won a contract worth 50 Million Sterling from Petroleo Brasileiro SA to supply flexible risers and flowlines as part of its global orders for several wells in the Campos Basin Area. 3iCatalyst has an accomplished and seasoned team of experts dealing with an extensive client base in the oil and gas industry worldwide. <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[3icatalyst Involved in Yahoo, Microsoft Take Over]]></title>
<link>http://www.prcompass.com/Banking_Investment/3icatalyst_Involved_in_Yahoo_Microsoft_Take_Over/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:40:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Banking &amp; Investment</category>
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<description><![CDATA[3iCatalsyt is selected as the preferred trouble-shooter to work with Yahoo after Microsoft pulled the trigger on a $44.6 billion takeover attempt of search company Yahoo since rival Google is warning that such a deal should spark heavy scrutiny.A top executive of Google, the world's Number 1 search company, is imploring regulators around the globe to evaluate the deal. &quot;The openness of the Internet is what made Google and Yahoo! possible,&quot; Google's lawyer, Senior VP David Drummond, said in a press release.  &quot;A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea.  Users benefit from constant innovation.  It's what makes the Internet such an exciting place. &quot;So Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises questions,&quot; Drummond wrote.  &quot;This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another.  It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.&quot; With dominance over the IT industry and Internet at stake, top executives at Google and Microsoft have been at each other's throats over the past several years.  Google has attempted to take on Microsoft's dominance in productivity software by launching Google Docs; Microsoft, in turn, is developing Office Live Workspace and its own search, mapping and online advertising businesses.  The proposal to take over Yahoo is its boldest move to date against Google and 3iCatalyst have been chosen to assist and defend Microsoft.3iCatalyst.com usually operate under the radar secretly defending and trouble-shooting companies out of difficult situations without a sign or trace, however in extraordinary cases 3iCatalyst is named to add leverage to a takeover or acquisition to ease turbulence and increase the value of the takeover company for stakeholders and shareholders alike before and after the transaction has taken place.3iCatalyst executives suggest they didn't believe Microsoft would have any major regulatory hurdles in buying Yahoo, since Google, they said, dominates the market for Internet search and online advertising.  3iCatalyst also firmly believe that the takeover is the best move Microsoft has made in the last ten years to firm up its position in the ever changing marketplace.3iCatalyst.com have been called in to troubleshoot after the statement from Google's Drummond, the first from a Google executive to respond to Microsoft's unsolicited bid for Yahoo, shows they are taking a similar stance with respect to Microsoft's market dominance.  The proposed Microsoft -Yahoo deal, and the potential raised by their combination, is leading to expectations of a massive battle between Microsoft and Google in the nascent Software-as-a-Service segment.3iCatalyst are usually secret and silent performers in transactions similar to this, however as an intentional strategic a4chess mate' move on behalf of Microsoft and Yahoo, 3iCatalyst were contracted and Google immediately faced market pressure on Microsoft's announcement alone.  On Friday the 1st of February 2008, after Microsoft's announcement, shares of Google on the Nasdaq stock market plunged by more than 8.5 percent.3iCatalyst.com stands to earn over $1 billion US Dollars from this unique contract to protect the interests of Yahoo, its shareholders by ensuring the best deal is reached even if it means a rejection of the staggering $44.6 billion takeover attempt. <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[January 2008 a4 3iCatalyst.com fund thirty one businesses in the very first month of 2008.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:15:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Banking &amp; Investment</category>
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<description><![CDATA[3iCatalyst.com fund, advise, launch, start-up, turnaround all types of business worldwide.   Being a new breed investor and incubator 3iCatalyst.com funded, turned around, started up hundreds of companies during the last twelve months.The Venture Capital and Private Equity industries are having their landscape changed by 3iCatalyst.com who is a NO VC (No Venture Capital) incubator that funds, launches and helps run successful companies worldwide.   Private Equity and Angel Investment from Angel Investors together with the 3iCatalyst fund fuel and launch businesses that other major companies steer away from because they are too risky or difficult to start-up, turnaround or simply work with.3iCatalyst.com has special funds reserved for property investments, property developers and their developments, land acquisition for development and construction.Although 3iCatalyst has its roots firmly embedded in Venture Capital funds they are a rapidly evolving cutting edge a4No VC'.  To fuel and encourage world economic growth and emerging markets 3iCatalyst.com has organically shed its parent group's Venture Capitalism process and replaced it with a unique refreshing a4NO Venture Capital (NoVC)' approach in order to capture and vitalise the majority market and emerging companies in any industry sector worldwide.3iCatalyst is a progressive forward seeing fast paced company that can morph to suit upturn and downturn markets.  3iCatalyst.com are sensitive to the individual commercial requirements of  any company whether they are at start-up stage or existing businesses seeking to expand, merge, acquire or are in a distressed status etc. 3iCatalyst work with and invest in any company whatever industry sector.  3iCatalyst is driven by a strong sense of value and ability to make every client achieve their target very quickly and successfully however diverse their product, service or market is.Using over 70 years of combined top experience they use multi-sector expertise, deep local presence and broad global platform to create value for stakeholders.  They fund, provide financing and or expertise to build and strengthen businesses to transform them into world-class companies.  3icatalyst invest and drive any company across all global growth sectors.As their own market matures, 3iCatalyst.com believes that the best-performing companies will be those with genuine global reach and financial scale.  3iCatalyst recognises the importance of global reach and have embraced the challenge of globalisation through evolving by phenomenally expanding its base of experts worldwide and are committed to delivering exceptional returns on investment for clients and investors alike.To attract leverage and maximise on the profit being generated by worldwide economic growth including emerging markets 3iCatalyst have removed the usual financial barriers and obstacles that most start ups and existing business experience during growth.3iCatalyst is a partnership of outstanding wealthy and expert individuals who align their interests with those of portfolio companies by investing a significant proportion of their own capital and expertise to produce exponential growth.The history of 3iCatalyst is interwoven with the explosion of the private equity asset class and Venture Capital on both sides of the Atlantic operating on a global basis able to spot emerging trends early, support the growth of global companies, use the world's stock markets most effectively and have successfully invested across all investment stages and through complete economic cycles.The firm's current success is rooted in a culture that has always been outward looking, pioneering and committed to growing businesses.  The deep understanding of the every industry sector in which it invests has been at the core of 3iCatalyst's strategy, giving it early access to investment opportunities and an ability to quickly add value to portfolio companies.Drawing on its long experience of successfully bringing its unique skills to new markets, 3iCatalyst.com will launch your start up, turnaround your business, take your company to Initial Public Offering (IPO) on any world stock market, attract and secure investment, merge and acquire (M&amp;A), expand or restructure your company for peak performance.Achievement - You Are One Step CloserSee more about 3iCatalyst.com at www.3iCatalyst.com <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[3iCatalyst a revolutionary a4Noa4 VC Approach to Funding with over 20 Billion Funding.]]></title>
<link>http://www.prcompass.com/Business/3iCatalyst_a_revolutionary_lsquoNorsquo_VC_Approach_to_Funding_with_over_£20_Billion_Funding--1/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:48:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[3iCatalyst are currently delivering 8.3 Billion GBP a4new style' funding to worldwide residential and commercial property developers.3iCatalyst is a new breed of investors, incubation and funding who are dedicated to delivering financial and expert help to worldwide businesses irrelevant of industry sector and or geographical location.   3iCatalyst work with almost any type of business whatever stage they are at or their existing value.  We currently deal with businesses in the range of 5,000.00GBP to 2 Billion GBP.We help to start-up, build or improve businesses; creating strong relationships and partnerships with every client based on integrity, trust and mutual respect.To speed up return on investments and organically fuel the growth of your business, 3iCatalyst utilise the unique resources from some of the numerous companies we have developed.  We have negotiated exclusive agreements with every company we've worked with, to assist our new clients with business growth and providing them valuable contracts and start-up or turnaround trade agreements.Being a multi-faceted revolutionary and unique company in the market place, we specialise in challenges, concentrating in the preparation and infrastructure of world wide start-ups, reconstructions and candidate Initial Public Offerings (IPO's)   Initial investments are attracted from our existing funds, Private Equity or our worldwide network of Angel Investors to fund growth.3iCatalyst's competitive advantage comes directly from its powerful international network of experts and the strength, breadth and depth of our relationships in business.  These underpin the value that we deliver to our clients and the returns we always produce for our investors.  Getting investment is easy, but finding the right investors with expert advice who will add value to your company is priceless.  That's why 3iCatalyst are the natural choice, as perfect partners to take your business to the ultimate limit.Founded by some of the best business minds in today's business world, we strive to develop businesses that have significant potential for high growth and rapid return for investors.   Perhaps businesses just like yours.3iCatalyst welcomes registrations from investors, experts, professionals, entrepreneurs and businesses requiring funding and/or rapid growth.For other press releases, or to submit business ideas or secure funding go to:  www.3icatalyst.com <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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