Cisco closes $4.5 billion deal to acquire chipmaker Acacia
The deal amounts to nearly $2 billion more than an offer Cisco made to the chipmaker in 2019.
This week, Cisco announced an amendment to the definitive merger agreement under which they had previously agreed to acquire Acacia. Under the terms of the amended agreement, Cisco would acquire Ac...
Cisco sues Acacia for backing out of acquisition deal
Acacia terminated their agreement after failing to receive timely regulatory approval in China.
Cisco today asked a Delaware court to stop Acacia from terminating an acquisition agreement the companies had signed in 2019.
That year Cisco agreed to buy publicly traded Acacia for approximately ...
‘Cisco cancels smart city products’
Cisco is said to have stopped developing its Kinetic for City programme. Due to the effects of the coronavirus, it would no longer be feasible at this time.
A Cisco spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that the company "recently decided to stop sales and eventually support for the Cisco Kineti...
Cisco buys Dashbase to enhance its AppDynamics platform
Acquisition of the events and logs analytics startup will strengthen Cisco's application monitoring platform.
Cisco Systems has announced this week that it will acquire events and logs analytics startup Dashbase. The companies did not disclose the details of the deal.
Dashbase makes a softwar...
SolarWinds hack also hit Cisco, Intel, Nvidia, VMware and Belkin
The Wall Street Journal asked several companies asking whether they had been affected by the malware contained in SolarWinds Orion. This appears to be the case with multiple large IT companies.
The newspaper writes that network company Cisco, chip designers Intel and Nvidia, accounting firm Delo...
Cisco unleashes a “wave of WebEx innovation”
The move follows Cisco's announcing an agreement to acquire IMImobile and intent to acquire Slido.
Cisco this week announced a wave of acquisitions and innovative Webex enhancements. The new features aim to help organizations better collaborate and transform their employee and customer experienc...
Cisco acquires IMImobile in a $730-million cash deal
In a cash deal, valued at around $730 million, Cisco has acquired IMImobile, a London-based cloud communications software company. The deal includes debt as well. IMImobile provides services and software for businesses that want to connect interactively with their customers using voice, messaging, ...
Cisco warns Windows 10 users to patch Webex security flaw
The company advised of an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Webex Meetings Desktop App
Cisco has issued an advisory warning that the bug in Webex Meetings Desktop App for Windows has created a "high-severity" security flaw. Indeed, Cisco has given the bug, tracked as CVE-2020-3588, a se...
Cisco updates Intersight with integration for AppDynamics
Cisco is now rolling out updates for Intersight, its hybrid cloud operations platform, and integrating it with AppDynamics. Cisco’s Intersight platform aims to connect private data centers to private clouds.
The suite first became publicly available in 2017. It is used as a cloud-based managem...
Cisco’s video-conferencing app nears 600 million users
Webex, Cisco's video-conferencing app, since September has over 590 million users and is on its way to break the 600 million mark this month. The corona pandemic seems to have played a large part in this growth.
The number of Webex users has been growing steadily since March. Back then, the serv...
Cisco launches the new Catalyst series of WAN edge platforms
Cisco released some new updates for its software-defined WAN (Wide Area Network) SD-WAN portfolio. The updates include the launch of new edge platforms that the company has said represents the first enterprise routing platform of its kind from Cisco in almost ten years.
Cisco said that the platf...
Cisco ordered to pay $1.89bn to Centripetal Networks
Cisco was found guilty of infringing on four Centripetal patents.
Cisco Systems was ordered today to pay $1.89 billion for patent-infringement against cybersecurity tech firm Centripetal Networks. The case brought by Centripetal also accused Cisco of pushing Centripetal out of lucrative governm...