Global vendor strategies - 07/03/07

Motorola recommends shareholders not to sign any mandate asked by any Icahn Entities, and does not plan to welcome billionaire investor Carl Icahn in its board.

IBM is on the buying spree. It plans to continue external growth after buying 13 companies in 2006 for about $5bn.

Cisco has bought the software and intellectual property behind Tribe.net, a pioneer in social networks.