M&A Deal Summary

Amdocs Acquires Changing Worlds

On November 5, 2008, Amdocs acquired software company Changing Worlds for 60M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Amdocs’ 4th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Amdocs’ 10th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Amdocs’ 1st transaction in Ireland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2008-11-05
Target Changing Worlds
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Amdocs
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 60M USD

Target

Changing Worlds

Dublin, Ireland
ChangingWorlds is a privately-held provider of personalization and intelligent portal solutions for mobile service providers. ChangingWorlds has continued to blaze the trail for personalized mobile content discovery, delivering innovative personalization solutions for mobile portal navigation, mobile search, mobile advertising, and content recommendations both on and off- deck.

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Buyer

Amdocs

Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Category Company
Founded 1982
Sector Software
Employees29,058
Revenue 5.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Amdocs office in St. Louis, Missouri.
Amdocs office in St. Louis, Missouri.

Amdocs provides software and services for communications, media, and entertainment industry service providers worldwide. It develops, implements, and manages software and services associated with business and operational support systems to enable service providers to introduce new products and process orders, as well as to support new business models. Amdocs was incorporated in 1982 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 25
Sector: Software M&A 4 of 9
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 10 of 22
Country: Ireland M&A 1 of 2
Year: 2008 M&A 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 10 of 15
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