Apr 11, 2011 | Hot Topics
Last week PTC announced its intention to acquire MKS, Inc. of Waterloo, Ontario, a supplier of tools to manage the lifecycle of embedded mechatronics software, for CDN$26.20/share or CDN$292.5 million in total (about $304 million at current exchange rates). PTC will...Mar 31, 2011 | Hot Topics
CENIT AG today gave further details about its performance in 2010 and a hint of where it sees 2011 going, now that we’re 1/4 of the way into the year. The main facts from the February announcement (summarized here) are essentially unchanged, although audited revenue...Mar 28, 2011 | Hot Topics
The good news keeps pouring in: Today Nemetschek reported its final figures for 2010 and tweaked its guidance for 2011. Back in February, the company had forecast a 10% organic growth rate for 2011, which the company today said it will achieve by “driv[ing] forward...Mar 24, 2011 | Hot Topics
Delcam plc announced back in early January that its fourth quarter was a “buoyant” end to a good year — yesterday, we found out just how good: For the year ended December 31, 2010 Delcam achieved record sales (£36.6 million, or about $59 million, up 17% over...Mar 24, 2011 | Hot Topics
Autodesk has had a very busy week. On Monday the company launched its 2012 line of products, concentrating on small, bigger and biggest bundles targeted at specific user functions. Today, the company’s Manufacturing group held a webinar to present this segment of...Mar 21, 2011 | Hot Topics
Mensch und Maschine Software (MuM) today provided final, audited financial data for 2010 and updated guidance for 2011 and 2012. Nothing much changed in the data for 2010 (blog post on preliminary results), but the company’s share price is up almost 10% on the news,...Mar 18, 2011 | Hot Topics
Lots going on this week, so here’s a quick roundup – I hope to get to longer posts on some of these next week. Dassault Systèmes acquires Intercim LLC Intercim, maker of manufacturing operations management systems software for the aerospace and defense industry,...Mar 14, 2011 | Hot Topics
ESI Group reported unaudited results today that highlight 30% growth in new business intake in the fourth quarter and what the company described as a “surge” in the emerging BRIC markets. In all, ESI described 2010 as exhibiting “buoyant” growth.The details: • Total...
