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Sir Terry Matthews sells Mitel to private investment firm Searchlight for $2 billion
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

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 25 April 2018
Toshiba to bust memory chip sell-off deadline as Chinese antitrust authorities' third investigation drags on
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

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 23 April 2018
Plantronics to acquire video conference tech maker Polycom for $2 billion
Plantronics to acquire video conference tech maker Polycom for $2 billion

Polycom sold-on to Plantronics following two years under private-equity ownership

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 29 March 2018
Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex snapped up by Circle
Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex snapped up by Circle

Social payments company plans to turn Poloniex into a 'robust multi-sided distributed marketplace'

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 26 February 2018
M&A carries on in unified comms space
M&A carries on in unified comms space

The UC market continues to shrink while remaining the same size

  • Communications
  • 09 January 2018
Thales trumps Atos in Gemalto takeover battle
Thales trumps Atos in Gemalto takeover battle

Atos folds after Thales agrees a deal for Gemalto 11 per cent higher than Atos's bid

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 18 December 2017
Toshiba denies reports that the sale of its PC making business is imminent
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

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 17 November 2017
StoneCalibre acquires AVST to create joint voice and data UC firm
StoneCalibre acquires AVST to create joint voice and data UC firm

StoneCalibre has merged AVST and fax-over-IP company XMedius

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 08 November 2017
Intermedia-AnyMeeting tie-up continues unified comms consolidation
Intermedia-AnyMeeting tie-up continues unified comms consolidation

Companies target SMBs with new cloud app and UC bundle

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 18 September 2017
Cloudreach continues shopping spree with ETA acquisition
Cloudreach continues shopping spree with ETA acquisition

UK company is on the expansion trail following February acquisition by Blackstone

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 10 August 2017
Mitel acquires ShoreTel to create second-largest unified communications company
Mitel acquires ShoreTel to create second-largest unified communications company

The offer represents almost a 30 per cent premium over ShoreTel's stock price

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 28 July 2017
With Telstra's scale, Company85 will go global
With Telstra's scale, Company85 will go global

Telstra will play off the acquisition to reach more of the UK market

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  • 15 June 2017
Yahoo shareholders approve $4.48bn sale to Verizon
Yahoo shareholders approve $4.48bn sale to Verizon

Verizon could slash 2,100 jobs as long-running takeover saga finally comes to an end

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  • 09 June 2017
Microsoft confirms deal to buy Israeli cyber security company Hexadite
Microsoft confirms deal to buy Israeli cyber security company Hexadite

Microsoft deal for Hexadite believed to be around $100m

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  • 08 June 2017
Sonus and Genband merge for IP- and cloud-based unified communications networks
Sonus and Genband merge for IP- and cloud-based unified communications networks

Merger combines separate areas of expertise in virtualisation, cloud and UC

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  • 30 May 2017
Cisco distances itself further from hardware base with Viptela acquisition
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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  • 22 May 2017
Facebook fined €110m for claiming it would not 'user match' in WhatsApp acquisition probe
Facebook fined €110m for claiming it would not 'user match' in WhatsApp acquisition probe

Facebook staff knew it was possible to link user identities and altered WhatsApp's privacy policy last year, says European Commission

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  • 18 May 2017
Lyft and Waymo team up for self-driving car pilots
Lyft and Waymo team up for self-driving car pilots

Non-exclusive deal will bring two of Uber's biggest rivals together

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  • 15 May 2017
Spotify acquires blockchain startup Mediachain Labs to solve music royalties issue
Spotify acquires blockchain startup Mediachain Labs to solve music royalties issue

Blockchain startup's employees expected to build a 'shared data layer' to solve music payment problems

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  • 28 April 2017
Volkswagen and Mobvoi team up to put artificial intelligence into cars
Volkswagen and Mobvoi team up to put artificial intelligence into cars

VW hopes 50-50 joint venture will see other car brands take up the AI technologies too

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  • 07 April 2017
Citrix up for sale, claims report
Citrix up for sale, claims report

Citrix has hired Goldman Sachs to search for potential buyers, according to insiders

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  • 14 March 2017
Apple buys Israeli firm RealFace for facial-recognition tech
Apple buys Israeli firm RealFace for facial-recognition tech

Could be added to iPhone 8

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  • 20 February 2017
Co-operative Bank settles dispute with Capita and cans new IT system as it puts itself up for sale
Co-operative Bank settles dispute with Capita and cans new IT system as it puts itself up for sale

Co-operative Bank scraps IT transformation plans to cut costs

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  • 13 February 2017
Samsung considering selling PC business to Lenovo for £680m
Samsung considering selling PC business to Lenovo for £680m

Reported move comes two years after firm fled the European market

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