Acquisitions

Fujitsu has a yen for 'large-scale' acquisitions and billions of yen to fund them

Digital transformation is still a thing and Japanese giant wants to buy anyone that can do it

Software12 Jan 2023 | 7

Video game players sue to frag Microsoft-Activision merger

Redmond accused of monopolising a market! How shocking

Personal Tech21 Dec 2022 | 9

US Justice Department requests more info from Adobe on $20b Figma buy

Antitrust scrutiny into one of the biggest deals for a private software developer

Software18 Nov 2022 | 4

Evernote's fall from grace is complete, with sale to Italian app maker

Frustrate enough users and your product will stumble. Hint, hint, Elon

Applications17 Nov 2022 | 74

Broadcom CEO says hiking VMware prices is not his strategy

Commits to containerized Tanzu portfolio too – perhaps heading off chatter it could be sold

Virtualization27 Oct 2022 | 6

Inmarsat gets $1b from US Navy for 10 years of satellite data

Outsourcing national defence didn't work so well in Ukraine

Off-Prem13 Oct 2022 | 3

Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age

Energy granddad wants in on the next generation of atomic tech

Science12 Oct 2022 | 24

India's Mars Orbiter Mission loses contact, burns all fuel, deemed 'non-recoverable'

Mangalyaan orbiter launched for just $74m, lasted a magnificent 16 times longer than expected

Science04 Oct 2022 | 41

NetScaler reclaims identity after Citrix, Tibco merge as ‘Cloud Software Group’

Other business units also made full members of group, perhaps hinting and spin-outs

Software04 Oct 2022 |

Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023

Even those with older devices will have to sign in if they want to activate new features

Personal Tech23 Sep 2022 | 27

Another UK tech company bought out: Schneider Electric grabs rest of Aveva

Analysis French industrial conglomerate pays $10.75b, but already owned lion's share of industrial software specialist

Software22 Sep 2022 | 15

Private equity suits at Thoma Bravo pull out of Darktrace acquisition

'Enterprise immune system' sees share price slump

Security08 Sep 2022 | 7

Musk tries to stall Twitter takeover trial following whistleblower claims

And throws a copy of Mudge's allegations to the SEC, too, just in case it hasn't read them yet

Personal Tech31 Aug 2022 | 58

EA shares volatile on the back of unconfirmed rumor of Amazon bid

Somebody set us up the bomb

Personal Tech26 Aug 2022 | 9

Amazon to buy Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b

Updated Bezos empire continues to clean up, but did it pick the proper postulates?

Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 65

Toshiba shrinks its shortlist of suitors but warns a deal won't happen soon

Bain and Japan Industrial Partners among those in the running

Legal21 Jul 2022 |

Twitter claims Elon Musk bailed from sale with 'invalid and wrongful' reasons

Tesla chief seemingly responds with ... a Chuck Norris meme that shows all the brilliance of the CEO mindset

Legal12 Jul 2022 | 55

API rate limits at the core of Elon Musk’s decision to ditch Twitter

Claims he got less access to data than paying customers and was forced to endure the indignity of a PDF

Software11 Jul 2022 | 66

IBM buys Databand to keep bad data from tainting your AI

Upstart promises to tackle that old adage: Garbage in, garbage out

AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |

Broadcom takeover deal for VMware faces no rival bids

Updated Lack of alternative offers means sale may go ahead with expected completion in fiscal 2023

Virtualization06 Jul 2022 | 11

Zendesk sold to private investors two weeks after saying it would stay public

Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds

Software27 Jun 2022 | 10

Broadcom sketches out VMware ambitions that stretch from mainframe to cloud

Engineers, sales teams told to stick around, customers promised more 'choice' – to buy from Symantec or CA

Virtualization23 Jun 2022 | 11

VMware customers fear Broadcom acquisition will stall innovation, increase cost

Gartner advises renegotiating subscriptions now to avoid ‘dramatic’ and ‘extraordinary’ price rises

Virtualization09 Jun 2022 | 21

Toshiba considering 11 possible futures

Management reveals 10 suitors, plus a digital transformation plan to become a software-defined business

Software03 Jun 2022 | 1

VMware customers have watched Broadcom's acquisitions and don't like what they see

It's not hard to find unpleasant precedents for what might happen to Virtzilla

Virtualization31 May 2022 | 39

Broadcom's stated strategy ignores most VMware customers

Focuses on 600 users, lets smaller outfits slide, trims R&D spend, slashes sales expenses

Virtualization30 May 2022 | 35

Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware

Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming

Virtualization27 May 2022 | 45

Broadcom to buy VMware 'on Thursday for $60 billion'

Think we speak for everyone when we say: Seriously, what the f...?

Virtualization24 May 2022 | 23

Broadcom in talks to buy VMware: multiple reports

Michael Dell could be the key to any deal

Virtualization23 May 2022 | 8

Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled

A stunning surprise to no one in this Solar System

Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 44

Private equity snaps up datacenter operator Switch for nearly $11b

DigitalBridge Group and global infrastructure investor IFM Investors to acquire all outstanding shares

On-Prem12 May 2022 |

Intel acquires graphics tech biz founded by ex-AMD, Qualcomm engineers

Demoscene-steeped Siru is on not its Second but, what, Third or Fourth Reality, now?

Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 5

When companies invest, they invest in software – report

Well, it's not like there's any hardware to buy at the moment

Software26 Apr 2022 | 2

Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff

Pretty cool that all other problems a billionaire could reasonably tackle are solved, leaving this one

Personal Tech25 Apr 2022 | 159

AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions

I mean, there's still so many, many IT depts to suck up into our cloud

PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2022 | 10

Investment firm KKR buys Barracuda Networks

Plans to take a bigger bite of the SME security market by swimming towards SASE

Security13 Apr 2022 | 3

Intel acquires private 5G network provider Ananki

Startup sells software and hardware as a subscription to make private 5G easy

Networks12 Apr 2022 | 1

Intel buys cloud-optimization startup Granulate

Updated Tech will be touted as a SaaS add-on in Xeon sales pitches, live on as standalone product

Software31 Mar 2022 | 1

Mnuchin's private equity firm buys security startup Zimperium for $525m

Mnuchin to be board chair of Softbank-backed security startup Zimperium

Security29 Mar 2022 |

$5bn+ Big Tech mergers in cross-hairs of draft US laws

Democrat-backed bills would also grant watchdogs powers to undo takeovers

Legal17 Mar 2022 | 6

SentinelOne pays $617m for identity biz Attivo Networks

Security consolidation du jour

Security15 Mar 2022 |

Arm China boss happy with Nvidia acquisition collapse

Plus: Rogue CEO's outfit could derail public listing

Systems23 Feb 2022 | 7

US DoJ gets more time to consider Oracle-Cerner merger

Big Red must wait to gets its teeth into health records giant

Software14 Feb 2022 |

Citrix says benefits are safe for staff – except maybe visa holders

Internal letter reveals detailed strategy for combining with TIBCO can wait until deal is done

Software10 Feb 2022 | 7