Wix acquires Rise.ai, focuses on customer engagement
Wix, a platform that simplifies website creation, has announced the acquisition of Rise.ai. The acquisition should provide new options for webshop owners.
Rise.ai specialises in ways to persuade customers of online shops to return. This includes personal gift cards, rewards and programmes to bui...
Verizon sells entire media division, which gets renamed to Yahoo
The American telecom provider has decided to split off its entire media division. The various media under Verizon will be in the hands of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which is putting down 5 billion dollars (over 4 billion euros) for the business.
Verizon's media branch is the r...
Dutch telecom provider KPN turns down two billion-dollar bids
KPN has rejected takeover bids from two different parties. Both a consortium of EQT and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and rival company KKR had made billion-dollar bids for the Dutch telecom provider.
The bids were possibly as high as 18 billion euros, according to the Financial Times. KPN t...
Accenture acquires cybersecurity firm Openminded
Accenture has closed a deal with French cyber security company Openminded for an acquisition. With the acquisition, Accenture wants to increase its presence in the field of cybersecurity in Europe.
Openminded was founded in 2008 and is managed from a security operations centre. The company offer...
Messagebird acquires Sparkpost for 500 million euros
The Dutch company MessageBird has announced the acquisition of Sparkpost. With this takeover, the company wants to increase its reach in the United States and add email services to its portfolio.
Sparkpost is an American company that focuses on sending e-mails. The service helps companies to pla...
Panasonic acquires AI software provider Blue Yonder
Panasonic has announced the acquisition of Blue Yonder. Blue Yonder makes AI algorithms for planning, automation and e-commerce. Panasonic wants to add Blue Yonder's services to its own portfolio.
The takeover involves a transaction of 7.1 billion dollars. This corresponds to some 5.9 billion eu...
Cybersecurity company Rapid7 acquires Velociraptor
Rapid7 has announced that it has acquired Velociraptor. The organisation develops the open-source platform of the same name for cybersecurity monitoring. It is not known how was paid for the acquisition.
Velociraptor, not to be confused with the hard drives, is a platform that was founded by for...
Discord ends sale talks with Microsoft
The COVID-19 pandemic has tilted the tables toward the social network.
Messaging platform Discord has ended deal talks with Microsoft and plans to focus on expanding the business as a standalone company. This is according to a Reuters report based on sources familiar with the matter.
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Atos buys three smaller companies in PLM, AI and cybersecurity
Atos has announced the purchase of three smaller companies. These are the Canadian company Processia, the British Ipsotek and the German cybersecurity company cryptovision. The products of the three companies will become part of Atos' offering.
Processia is a Canadian company that focuses on Pro...
UK to investigate Arm takeover by Nvidia on security grounds
The British competition authority will start an investigation into the possible takeover of Arm by Nvidia. The investigation will look, among other things, into whether the acquisition might cause problems in the area of national security.
The investigation will be carried out by the Competition...
IBM acquires RPA company myInvenio
IBM has announced the acquisition of myInvenio. This company specialises in the automation of business processes and the various steps involved. IBM wants to incorporate the expertise of myInvenio in its own portfolio.
myInvenio specialises in business automation supported by artificial intellig...
Microsoft confirms Nuance acquisition for 16.5 billion euros
Microsoft has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Nuance. Nuance specialises in speech recognition and processing, a technology that Microsoft would like to use for the healthcare industry.
In a blog post, Microsoft says that the company will pay 56 dollars (47 euros) per share...