Cisco closes acquisition of Splunk
Cisco has confirmed today that it has acquired Splunk. Following approval from all competition authorities, the deal worth $28 billion is complete.
On March 13, the last deadline for the EU antitrust watchdog expired, removing the last possible roadblock to Splunk's acquisition. Today, Cisco its... Read more
Apple improves business potential Vision Pro with acquisition DarwinAI
Apple appears to have acquired AI start-up DarwinAI. The company offers technology to optimize the manufacturing process, delivered through AR glasses.
With the acquisition of DarwinAI, Apple owns a company that can make the Vision Pro more suitable for business use. The Vision Pro is Apple's t... Read more
Cloudflare Magic Cloud Networking ties public cloud connections together
With Magic Cloud Networking from Cloudflare, companies can connect workloads running on different public cloud platforms more easily. This service is based on technology from recently acquired startup Nefeli Networks and has recently been introduced in the Cloudflare One platform.
The service pr... Read more
Dissident SoftwareOne shareholders finally give up on acquisition by Bain
Bain's 3.2 billion euro acquisition of SoftwareOne is definitely off the table. After SoftwareOne decided in mid-January to turn down the offer, rebellious shareholders have now also rejected the non-binding deal.
A trio of shareholders attempted to sideline SoftwareOne's board in February. By d... Read more
Atos has new plans after failed deal with EPEI, which still wants a deal
Update, 29/2, 11:55 am: Atos strengthens its Board of Directors with three new members. The company is restarting after the deal with EPEI was cancelled. This deal would take over the Tech Foundations unit, as well as much of Atos' debt. This deal fell apart, but businessman Křetínský appears to... Read more
‘Carbon Black no longer for sale, Broadcom preparing major layoffs’
As Broadcom is busy selling VMware End-User Compute (EUC) for $3.8 billion, Carbon Black is being retained. However, a major round of layoffs is said to follow in March, after which the former security company may be merged with Symantec.
Broadcom initially planned to sell Carbon Black (CB). On ... Read more
1Password consolidates with Kolide endpoint security platform
1Password recently acquired Kolide. With the acquisition, 1 Password aims to expand its portfolio of solutions to provide companies with secure access to applications and data.
With the acquisition, for which no further details were disclosed, 1Password gains a specialist that provides security ... Read more
Zendesk acquires platform to analyze customer service
Zendesk says it has fully completed the acquisition of quality management specialist Klaus. The acquisition is intended to expand Zendesk's workforce engagement management (WEM) services portfolio.
With the acquisition of Klaus' AI-based quality management platform, Zendesk aims to provide even ... Read more
Runecast acquisition boosts Dynatrace’s security and analytics capabilities
Dynatrace has recently acquired Runecast Solutions. In this way, Dynatrace aims to expand the existing security and analytics capabilities of its own platform.
The recently announced acquisition of Runecast should add even more functionality to the existing Dynatrace platform, the line of thinki... Read more
Box acquires start-up Crooze to expand automation
Box recently acquired the no-code start-up Crooze. With this, Box aims to "transform enterprise content management."
With the acquisition, Box has acquired a start-up that focuses on business contracts, automatic document review and document metadata. For this purpose, Crooze has developed sever... Read more