Tag: mergers and acquisitions

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Vista Equity partners buys Blue Prism, integrates it with Tibco

Vista Equity partners buys Blue Prism, integrates it with Tibco

Over the last year, the robotic process automation market has been more active than ever. One of the pioneers in the market, Blue Prism, was sold to Vista Equity Partners for $1.5 billion (£1.095 billion) according to a filing in Great Britain. Even though the past year has seen many RPA startu... Read more

date2 years ago
Akamai spends $600 million to acquire Tel Aviv-based Guardicores

Akamai spends $600 million to acquire Tel Aviv-based Guardicores

Akamai Technologies’ acquisition of Guardicore is a move in the right direction and a great way to enhance its cybersecurity portfolio. The deal was announced on Wednesday, with terms saying that Akamai will pay about $600 million to acquire all outstanding equity. Guardicore is a Tel Aviv-bas... Read more

date2 years ago
CEOs of Nvidia and ARM discuss controversial acquisiton

CEOs of Nvidia and ARM discuss controversial acquisiton

ARM and NVIDIA's CEO addressed the controversial deal in which NVIDIA purchased ARM for $40 billion. They say "this merger will be beneficial for many industries", contrary to what NVIDIA's rivals believe. Reasons the deal is good for the industry Simon Segars, CEO of ARM, and Jensen Huang, C... Read more

date3 years ago
Gartner: Tech mergers and acquisitions to peak in 2022

Gartner: Tech mergers and acquisitions to peak in 2022

As pandemic volatility subsides, competition for acquisition targets will continue to increase, they say. This week Gartner released its report entitled Tech CEO: Acquisition Strategies During COVID-19 and Implications for Providers. The study predicts that there will be more global M&A acti... Read more

date3 years ago
Tech Data is merging with its competitor in a $7.2 billion deal

Tech Data is merging with its competitor in a $7.2 billion deal

Tech Data has agreed to merge with Fremont, California-based SYNNEX Corp in a deal valued at $7.2 billion including net debt. Tech Data is a Clearwater-based IT distributor and was the largest publicly traded company in the Tampa Bay area before it was acquired by a private equity firm in 2019. ... Read more

date3 years ago
Datadog to buy Sqreen application security management platform

Datadog to buy Sqreen application security management platform

Datadog, a cloud monitoring platform, announced that it plans to acquire Sqreen, a software-as-a-service security company. It was originally founded in France and participated in the 2016 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield. Sqreen is a cloud-based security platform used to project applications direc... Read more

date3 years ago
MessageBird acquires Pusher for $35 million

MessageBird acquires Pusher for $35 million

After recently receiving a $3 billion valuation, after a Series C round in October, MessageBird has made a move to acquire the London-based real-time web tech company, Pusher. The acquisition price is $35 million, with Pusher co-founder and CEO Max Williams and the small Pusher team of 25 people jo... Read more

date3 years ago
Facebook buys Kustomer to expand into customer service tools

Facebook buys Kustomer to expand into customer service tools

Facebook made one of its most significant moves to provide a better service experience to the businesses run on its platform. The social media behemoth acquired Kustomer, a startup that was created to disrupt the customer services industry with innovations. Most of the innovations use tactics li... Read more

date3 years ago
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