Salesforce acquires Slack for 27,7 billion dollars
Salesforce has made the acquisition of Slack official. The two companies have signed an agreement for a sum of 27.7 billion dollars, approximately 23 billion euros.
In a press release, Salesforce states that the company will pay out 26.79 billion to Slack's stakeholders, plus 0.0776 Salesforce s...
‘Slack acquisition by Salesforce may be near’
Salesforce appears to be planning an acquisition of Slack. The company may be paying a sum of 17 billion US dollars for the communications platform. This would make it the largest acquisition by Salesforce ever.
The rumour of the takeover stems from a report by the Wall Street Journal. The newsp...
FireEye acquires Respond Software
Security company FireEye has announced that it has made a deal for the acquisition of Respond Software. FireEye wants to incorporate Respond's software into its own products.
Respond Software is a company that specializes in helping companies investigate and understand security incidents. This s...
Barracuda acquires Fyde and launches new product
Security company Barracuda has broadened its offer with the acquisition of Fyde. Barracuda will continue to sell Fyde products under the Barracuda name.
Fyde is a Zero Trust Network Access provider. Companies can use it to secure their cloud environment by specifying which user is allowed to acc...
Adobe acquires Workfront for $1.5 billion to boost Experience Cloud
Today, Adobe announced that it has signed a deal that it will acquire the marketing software company Workfront, for 1.5 billion.
Adobe sells cloud-based software for designers and creatives. The company aims to integrate Workfront's software with its Experience Cloud offering. Adobe's Experience...
IFS gains expertise in utilities vertical
Swedish software company IFS has acquired Clevest Solutions. Clevest specialises in workforce management in the utilities branch. IFS wants to use this knowledge to improve its service management offerings.
Clevest and IFS
Clevest specialises in personnel management in the field of utilities....
Veeam commits to Kubernetes Backup with Kasten acquisition
Containers are the future of application development, according to many IT professionals. For the execution and management of these containers, Kubernetes is the go-to software platform. Increased use of containers and Kubernetes is to be expected. Because of this, data management player Veeam deci...
AMD acquires chip designer Xilinx
AMD has made a deal with Xilinx to acquire the company. AMD will pay Xilinx with 35 billion dollars (just under 30 billion euros) worth of stocks.
The acquisition is in advanced stage: both companies' directors have unanimously given their blessings. Now, the companies are waiting for approval f...
Juniper Networks buys 128 Technology for $450 million
Juniper Networks announced that it signed a deal to acquire 128 Technology for 450 million dollars. The company has a software platform for enterprise networks.
The deal will wrap up in Juniper’s fourth quarter, ending in late January. 128 Technology was founded in 2014 and provides a software...
SAP to acquire Emarsys to enhance its customer experience operation
Emarsys’ platform, which helps companies give their customers personalized interactions across e-mail, SMS, the web, mobile and social media, will be acquired by SAP. The software giant said they want to buy Emarsys, a cloud-marketing platform and customer engagement technology company.
Emarsy...
VMware is acquiring the automation provider company, SaltStack
VMware is acquiring Saltstack, a renowned company in the infrastructure automation market. VMware is buying this company to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. The deal was announced during the VMware virtual VMworld event on Tuesday.
The company debuted several new products bu...
Pure Storage acquires PortWorx to accelerate cloud-native growth
Pure Storage is looking to expand its operations into the growing cloud-native and Kubernetes-based storage market. As a result, they have announced that they are acquiring Portworx, a data services platform. The company announced that it is paying $370 million in cash for the deal.
Portworx off...