Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances' Legal24 Mar 2023 | 5
T-Mobile US buys Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35B Video However, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 9
SAP's in-and-out burger Qualtrics sold to Silver Lake and Canadian pension funds Someone's still got some cash jangling about after the Silicon Valley Bank mess Spotlight on Databases14 Mar 2023 | 4
Amid the gloom of widespread layoffs, Fujitsu is hiring and acquiring Buys GK Software and intends to put 1,600 new people on staff – some of them oldies Software02 Mar 2023 | 7
This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider Updated Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical info Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 36
OpenText completes Micro Focus buy, CEO says bye to 8% of workforce Here's your new desk, phone, security card, and an unpleasant missive for some Software01 Feb 2023 | 4
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