Mergers and Acquisitions
Symantec suspends deal talks with Broadcom over price disagreements
Symantec suspends takeover talks after Broadcom cuts bid price by $1
Competition watchdog to examine Amazon-Deliveroo deal
Deliveroo's May funding round led by Amazon to be investigated by Competition and Markets Authority
EU approves IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat
European Commission concludes that IBM's proposed takeover of Red Hat posed no competition concerns
Mike Lynch: Autonomy was "one of the most successful companies England has ever produced"
Autonomy founder rejects allegations that he inflated his firm's value before it was sold to HPE
Apple acquires self-driving vehicle start-up Drive.ai
Drive.ai had been looking for buyers since February
CloudBees buzzes a little louder with acquisition of feature flag firm Rollout
Rollout is an important part of CloudBees' software delivery management plans, says CEO Labourey
Salesforce buys BI and analytics firm Tableau for $15.7 billion
Tableau will continue to operate under its own brand with the same leadership team
IBM sells seven software assets to HCL for $1.8 bn
Largest ever acquisition by an Indian tech firm
Tibco acquires master data management firm Orchestra Networks
Orchestra Networks will add flexible MDM to the Tibco portfolio.
Qualcomm does not intend to revive NXP takeover deal, despite easing of US-China tensions
President Trump says that China would now be willing to approve Qualcomm's proposed $44 billion takeover of NXP, which fell through in July
Big data firms Hortonworks and Cloudera announce merger
Hadoop's phoney war ends with a trunkshake
Plantronics completes Polycom acquisition for $2 billion
The tie-up brings Plantronics into UC hardware space
Splunk to buy DevOps incident management firm VictorOps for $120m
Move fits with Splunk's strategy of broadening its enterprise use cases
Sir Terry Matthews sells Mitel to private investment firm Searchlight for $2 billion
Mitel joins Rackspace in portfolio of Searchlight Capital following $2 billion deal
Toshiba to bust memory chip sell-off deadline as Chinese antitrust authorities' third investigation drags on
Toshiba deal with Bain Capital continues to be held-up by regulatory hurdles
Plantronics to acquire video conference tech maker Polycom for $2 billion
Polycom sold-on to Plantronics following two years under private-equity ownership
Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex snapped up by Circle
Social payments company plans to turn Poloniex into a 'robust multi-sided distributed marketplace'
M&A carries on in unified comms space
The UC market continues to shrink while remaining the same size
Thales trumps Atos in Gemalto takeover battle
Atos folds after Thales agrees a deal for Gemalto 11 per cent higher than Atos's bid
Toshiba denies reports that the sale of its PC making business is imminent
Toshiba downplays PC unit sale rumours despite offloading TV manufacturing to Hisense for just $114m
StoneCalibre acquires AVST to create joint voice and data UC firm
StoneCalibre has merged AVST and fax-over-IP company XMedius
Intermedia-AnyMeeting tie-up continues unified comms consolidation
Companies target SMBs with new cloud app and UC bundle
Cloudreach continues shopping spree with ETA acquisition
UK company is on the expansion trail following February acquisition by Blackstone
Mitel acquires ShoreTel to create second-largest unified communications company
The offer represents almost a 30 per cent premium over ShoreTel's stock price
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