Mergers and Acquisitions
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
With Telstra's scale, Company85 will go global
Telstra will play off the acquisition to reach more of the UK market
Yahoo shareholders approve $4.48bn sale to Verizon
Verizon could slash 2,100 jobs as long-running takeover saga finally comes to an end
Microsoft confirms deal to buy Israeli cyber security company Hexadite
Microsoft deal for Hexadite believed to be around $100m
Sonus and Genband merge for IP- and cloud-based unified communications networks
Merger combines separate areas of expertise in virtualisation, cloud and UC
Cisco distances itself further from hardware base with Viptela acquisition
Cisco's acquisition of Viptela takes the company further out of its traditional territory and into the software space
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