Today's Deals: Wine.com Goes Global

 click2learn.com (CLKS) acquires 3 Dog Multimedia

   *  Amount:         Undisclosed

   *  Terms:            n/a

   *  Premium:        n/a

   *  Industry:        Performance software

   *  Scorecard:      B-

BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 16--click2learn.com , the open e-Learning Network, has acquired 3 Dog Multimedia, a developer of custom e-Learning content in Santa Cruz, Calif. The move enables click2learn to expand its burgeoning West Coast business, adding a seasoned, professional services team that will better enable click2learn.com to meet the market's need for custom-built e-Learning solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

 

 Delano Technology (DTEC) acquires Digital Archaeology

   *  Amount:         $87 million

   *  Terms:            4.63 million shares/$17.4 million cash

   *  Premium:        n/a

   *  Industry:        Consultants/Designers

   *  Scorecard:      B

TORONTO, Canada, Oct. 16--Delano Technology , a provider of interaction-based e-business solutions for the enterprise, announced it has acquired Kansas-based Digital Archaeology, a provider of advanced analytics for e-business, in a deal valued at $87 million. The acquisition enables Delano to bring to market a single solution that tightly integrates Digital Archaeology's analytical products with Delano's industry leading e-business platform and electronic Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) applications, providing enterprises with a one-stop-shopping opportunity for intelligently managing interactions across the enterprise with customers, partners, suppliers, and employees. Delano is issuing 4,630,462 shares of its common stock and $17.4 million in cash.

 

 Datalink.net (XLNK) acquires WaresOnTheWeb

   *  Amount:         Undisclosed

   *  Terms:            100% stock

   *  Premium:        n/a

   *  Industry:        Speed/Bandwidth

   *  Scorecard:      B

SAN JOSE, Oct. 16--Datalink.net, a Wireless Application Service Provider and infrastructure architect, announced the acquisition of WaresOnTheWeb, an established provider of e-commerce solutions to leading retailers, distributors, and manufacturers. By leveraging existing technological expertise and ASP market presence, WaresOnTheWeb is ideally positioned to deliver an unparalleled suite of wired and wireless solutions that seamlessly connect enterprises to markets. The purchase is a stock-for-stock transaction of Datalink.net stock with a performance earn-out. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.

 

 ValueClick (VCLK) acquires StraightUP!

   *  Amount:         Undisclosed

   *  Terms:            n/a

   *  Premium:        n/a

   *  Industry:        Advertising/Marketing

   *  Scorecard:      C+

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Oct. 16--ValueClick , a provider of pay-for-performance advertising solutions, announced the acquisition of StraightUP!, a marketing analysis firm with powerful, patented technology for tracking and reporting both immediate- and long-term marketing results across all media channels. The acquisition is the latest in a series of recent moves by ValueClick to further expand the tools available to direct marketers and advertisers seeking to both maximize and quantify the return on their marketing investments, with StraightUP! products providing performance-based accountability to advertisers.

 

 Wine.com acquires European Wine Exchange

   *  Amount:         Undisclosed

   *  Terms:            n/a

   *  Premium:        n/a

   *  Industry:        E-tailers

   *  Scorecard:      A-

NAPA, Oct. 16--Wine.com, an online wine destination, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire European Wine Exchange GmbH (EWX), a pioneering e-commerce company addressing both the business-to-consumer and business-to-business market in Germany. The acquisition of EWX is the first in a series of steps wine.com is taking to secure a leadership position in the European market. The EWX site will be integrated into the wine.com U.S. site in 2001 and will serve the German wine market via the URL (www.wine.de) with an internationally sourced collection of quality wines.