Broadcom immediately spins off Carbon Black from VMware after acquisition
From now on, Carbon Black is a separate "business unit" within Broadcom's portfolio. In doing so, Broadcom is cutting its endpoint security offering loose from the rest of VMware, which itself is split into several divisions.
Jason Rolleston, VP & GM of VMware Carbon Black, begins with a fai... Read more
Chinese Nexperia set to acquire Dutch chipmaker Nowi, despite controversy
There are no regulatory objections from the Dutch government to the takeover of Delft-based Dutch chip specialist Nowi Energy by China's Nexperia. This was announced by outgoing Minister of Economic Affairs Micky Adriaansens in a parliamentary letter.
The takeover of the startup Nowi Energy by N... Read more
VMware split into four divisions after acquisition by Broadcom
VMware has been split into four divisions following its acquisition by Broadcom. CEO Raghu Raghuram has also stepped down.
The Register discovered the restructuring. Only one of the divisions retains the VMware name. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the most successful product within the VMware of... Read more
Adobe possibly expanding its AI video tools with acquisition of Rephrase.ai
Adobe is strengthening its portfolio of AI tools with the acquisition of intelligent text-to-video specialist Rephrase.ai. This is brought by the Economic Times based on sources. The tool is mainly to strengthen the Adobe Creative Cloud portfolio.
The acquisition of India's Rephrase.ai has not b... Read more
It’s official: Broadcom has acquired VMware
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware is now complete. The company confirmed the move in a press release on November 22nd. Chinese authorities had earlier revealed the conditions under which they would approve the deal worth $61 billion.
Initially, Broadcom hoped to secure the incorporation of VMware... Read more
VMware integrates with Symantec as Broadcom acquisition nears
At its Explore event in Barcelona, VMware was still unable to confirm its acquisition by Broadcom. However, The company's already integrating its offerings with Broadcom subsidiary Symantec, ideally giving customers a unified SASE option in due time. It's in advance of a likely coalescence of VMwar... Read more
PagerDuty acquires Jeli and ‘will transform incident management’
PagerDuty signed forms to acquire Jeli. This will integrate the company specialising in incident management into the PagerDuty Operations Cloud.
American PagerDuty is acquiring the start-up Jeli.io. Both companies deal in incident management, allowing Jeli's solutions to immediately make themse... Read more
Cegeka’s acquisition of CTG postponed for the third time
Update, 6/11/2023, 10:51 am: Cegeka's takeover of sector peer CTG is delayed again. The deadline for contributing the shares is postponed for the third time. The parties set the new date of December 12.
Postponement is again necessary because the takeover has still not received all approvals fro... Read more
Palo Alto Networks buys Israeli Talon Cyber Security for 581 million euros
Palo Alto Networks has recently acquired Israel's Talon Cyber Security for 581 million euros ($625 million). This puts it in control of a security specialist that offers a secure business browser platfom.
Talon Cyber Security has only been operating for two years so far. The company offers a bus... Read more
HubSpot buys B2B data provider Clearbit for more intelligent insights
HubSpot recently acquired B2B data provider Clearbit. Clearbit's integration of intelligent tooling and business data should provide HubSpot CRM platform customers with more data and better insights.
No financial details were disclosed regarding the Clearbit acquisition. About the purpose of the... Read more