Mergers and Acquisitions
HP rejects acquisition offer from Xerox, but leaves door open to raised bid
HP Inc's board of directors believe that Xerox's offer significantly undervalues the PC and printer maker
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn pushes for Xerox-HP merger
Icahn, who actively opposed Michael Dell's 'privatisation' of Dell, owns 4.24 per cent stake in HP and more than ten per cent of Xerox
HP Inc mulls acquisition proposal from Xerox
HP Inc is considering a 'business combination' proposal from Xerox
Alphabet in talks to acquire Fitbit
There is no certainty that the deal will actually take place
Microsoft acquires Mover to simplify Microsoft 365 cloud migration
Mover provides cloud file migration services that the software giant wants to integrate with Microsoft 365
Competition watchdog opens first phase of formal probe into Amazon's Deliveroo deal
CMA will examine whether Amazon's investment in Deliveroo could result in a substantial lessening of competition
John Sawers: Home-grown technology must be protected from foreign influence
With globalism failing, the ex-head of MI6 warned business leaders against giving up control to overseas investors
VMware acquires Pivotal and Carbon Black to boost its cloud offerings
Two deals are valued together at $4.8 billion and come just days after VMware acquired Intrinsic for an undisclosed sum
Splunk acquires monitoring and analytics firm SignalFx for $1.05 billion
Splunk claims SignalFX acquisition will enable it to offer application performance management from cloud-based apps to on-premise applications
VMware buys security start-up Intrinsic to boost cloud expansion
Intrinsic acquisition will enable software developers to securely tap serverless computing
Microsoft acquires jClarity to boost performance of Java workloads on Azure
Microsoft is already participating in the open source AdoptOpenJDK project to help build OpenJDK binaries
Intel in advanced talks to sell its smartphone modem chip division to Apple
The deal is valued at $1 billion, according to the sources
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
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