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Nvidia to invest at least $100 million in UK supercomputer

Nvidia to invest at least $100 million in UK supercomputer

CEO Jensen Huang revealed the plan for a supercomputer in the UK and said there is more to come. Nvidia's chief executive officer said the company will spend at least $100 million on a supercomputer in the United Kingdom, Reuters reported. Speaking at The Six Five Summit, CEO Jensen Huang said N... Read more

date3 years ago
FireEye sells products business and name, continues as Mandiant

FireEye sells products business and name, continues as Mandiant

FireEye ceases to exist. In its current form, that is. The company is selling its FireEye product portfolio and its name to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group. It will continue with only the services from its Mandiant division. The sale is an all-cash transaction of $1.2 billion. The ... Read more

date3 years ago

Cisco acquires security company Kenna Security

Cisco has announced its plans to acquire Kenna Security. Kenna makes a platform for vulnerability management, which Cisco wants to incorporate into its own SecureX offering. Kenna's market is called risk-based vulnerability management. The company uses a combination of machine learning and other... Read more

date3 years ago
ServiceNow acquires observability company Lightstep

ServiceNow acquires observability company Lightstep

ServiceNow has made an acquisition agreement with Lightstep. Lightstep specialises in application monitoring and observability, and ServiceNow wants to use that company's knowledge for its own products. With the acquisition, ServiceNow wants to help DevOps professionals build, deploy, run and mo... Read more

date3 years ago
Wix acquires Rise.ai, focuses on customer engagement

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... Read more

date3 years ago
Verizon sells entire media division, which gets renamed to Yahoo

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... Read more

date3 years ago

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... Read more

date3 years ago
Accenture acquires cybersecurity firm Openminded

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... Read more

date3 years ago
Messagebird acquires Sparkpost for 500 million euros

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... Read more

date3 years ago
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