One of our clients, Vancouver-based QA Labs, got acquired today by US Technology Resources Inc, a big IT services company (part of an even bigger conglomerate) with 3500 employees worldwide.
USTRI will be keeping all the QA Labs staff. I’m speculating here, but when you acquire a software QA company, you’re probably buying brains as opposed to intellectual property. Here’s the press release, in the unlikely event you want to read it.
This is the second client of ours that’s been acquired in 2006. At this rate we’re going to be out of work by Christmas.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
Darren: As part of your Web 2.0 Marketing Services, do you assist Web 2.0 companies specifically with how they might do enough to get themselves acquired?
Brian: Well, that’s a goal of lots of our clients, so it’s always on our radar. For some clients, we aim to get them visibility with acquirers through specific marketing activities.
I obviously don’t know much about your customers and their acquirers, but your last sentence sounds defeatist. If they were acquired with any help from your services, you have a calling card to go knocking on the acquirer’s door. Don’t eat the little fish, use it to bait the larger one.
Don’t worry, I was joking. We’re already talking to the big fish.