Acquisitions

Second time lucky for Thoma Bravo, which scoops up Darktrace for $5.3B

Analysts brand deal a 'nail in the coffin' for UK tech investment

Security26 Apr 2024 | 4

Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica

Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier

Software15 Apr 2024 |

Canva acquires Affinity, further wounding a regulator-bruised Adobe

Yet another reason to reconsider that overpriced Creative Cloud subscription

Applications26 Mar 2024 | 29

Ker-Splunk! Cisco closes $28 billion analytics acquisition

Job one: Splunkify Talos threat intelligence, then do the same all over the Cisco portfolio

Software19 Mar 2024 | 8

VMware's end-user compute unit reportedly headed to private equity firm KKR

As users report Broadcom massively hikes license costs, consultant advises negotiation tactics used for Oracle or Microsoft will apply

Virtualization26 Feb 2024 | 24

Japan's second-ranked mobile telco to buy convenience store chain from Mitsubishi

KDDI wants to snack on data about who buys what at which of Lawson's 14,600 stores

Offbeat08 Feb 2024 | 5

Competition is decreasing in enterprise IT – and you’ll be poorer and dumber for it

Comment Suppliers know they can get away with less and the cloud means alternatives are less likely to emerge

On-Prem28 Jan 2024 | 31

Atos confirms talks with Airbus over cybersecurity wing sale

IT service company's latest move to clear its maturing debts

Security03 Jan 2024 | 2

Cisco goes Christmas shopping, buys Cilium project originator Isovalent

Switchzilla likes what eBPF does for multicloud networking and security

Networks22 Dec 2023 | 13

VMware's end-user compute products are for sale. Who might buy 'em?

Would you rather a cloud that not-so-gently migrates you, or a retirement home like HCL?

Virtualization19 Dec 2023 | 17

Broadcom re-orgs VMware into four divisions – none of which mention end-user compute products

Community programs retained but CEO waves farewell

Virtualization23 Nov 2023 | 26

SonicWall swallows Solutions Granted amid cybersecurity demand surge

CEO Bob VanKirk makes near-20-year partnership official, teases big things coming to EMEA

CSO17 Nov 2023 | 1

Broadcom, VMware insist merger to 'close soon' as China plays hard to get

Regulatory red dragon keeping silent with a day left until deadline

Virtualization30 Oct 2023 | 4

Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation

SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25

Cisco spends $28B on data cruncher Splunk in cybersecurity push

$157/share cash deal is the largest acquisition in networking titan's history

Security21 Sep 2023 | 5

Microsoft wants Activision so badly, it's handing streaming rights over to ... Ubisoft?

All to appease the UK's competition watchdog, the last hurdle to the deal

Software22 Aug 2023 | 37

FTC boss Khan shrugs off Microsoft, Meta defeats: 'Losing two is okay'

How quick y'all are to forget Nvidia-Arm

Personal Tech25 Jul 2023 | 4

Feds want to rewrite rules for competition-crushing merger probes

No more embrace-and-extinguish M&As, but budgetary changes may make enforcement harder

Legal20 Jul 2023 | 1

UK greenlights Broadcom's $61B VMware takeover

Only obstacle left is the FTC, which is still licking its wounds from other recent antitrust defeats

Virtualization19 Jul 2023 | 2

FTC pulls emergency brake on Microsoft's marriage to Activision Blizzard

Updated Agency concerned the pair are planning to combine before it's able to make a decision whether to allow it

Software13 Jun 2023 | 27

Fahrenheit to take over Celsius

0°C×9/5+32 = how much money to thaw frozen crypto accounts?

Legal26 May 2023 | 43

Meta forced to sell Giphy, takes 87% loss in Shutterstock deal

Zuck and Co face Brexit bonus

Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 8

China becomes the 37th country to approve Microsoft's Activision buyout

Boss fights with US and UK authorities lie ahead, and Redmond may not have enough power-ups to prevail

Legal23 May 2023 | 10

Larry Ellison cleared of forcing Oracle to overpay for NetSuite

Billionaire and his financial stake in the deal aren't to blame, says a Delaware judge

Software15 May 2023 | 3

Boss fight cleared: Europe approves Microsoft's Activision takeover

Completing a tough level doesn't mean squat if you can't defeat UK and USA

Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 7

EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees

We've got four words for you: Insert coin to continue

Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 8

UK watchdog blocks Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition

That's not very Unicorn Kingdom of you

Personal Tech26 Apr 2023 | 69

Europe moves to derail Broadcom's VMware takeover

Strangling competition won't fly here, says Brussels

Virtualization13 Apr 2023 | 1

Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid

It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances'

Legal24 Mar 2023 | 6

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 | 5

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 | 26

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 | 65

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