Carbonite buys security company Webroot for 618 million dollars
Carbonite - manufacturer of backup and recovery technology - acquired Webroot for 618.5 million dollars (547 million euros). This is the largest acquisition for Carbonite ever and part of the strategy to become a leading data protection company, writes ZDNet.
Webroot was founded in 1997 and is now a... Read more
Palo Alto Networks wants to take over digital security startup Demisto’.
Palo Alto Networks is apparently in negotiations to take over Demisto Inc. This is a digital security startup founded by four former McAfee managers. No formal talks have been announced, so it is possible that in the end nothing is going on.
The site Calcalist reports on the basis of anonymous sourc... Read more
VMware acquires AetherPal to strengthen focus on IoT
VMware expands its product offering with the acquisition of AetherPal Inc., which develops software to help companies support endpoints for their staff, as well as devices connected to the Internet-of-Things. The amount VMware pays for AetherPal is not known.
Today, Shankar Iyer, Vice President of t... Read more
Orange Business Services acquires British cybersecurity firm SecureData
Orange Business Services acquires the independent British cybersecurity service provider SecureData. Subsidiary SensePost also joins the Orange family, formerly known as France Télécom. The amount for which the companies were acquired is not known.
In 2018, SecureData recorded a total annual t... Read more
Mimecast takes over Simply Migrate for easier data migration
Mimecast announced today that it has taken over Simply Migrate. The company that offers e-mail and data security thus takes over the provider of data migration technology. With the acquisition, Mimecast's portfolio will become much more extensive.
Mimecast expands its migration services with the por... Read more
Dropbox finds in HelloSign its biggest takeover ever
Dropbox today announced its largest acquisition to date. The cloud giant is down $230 million for HelloSign. This is a startup that offers document management to millions of users worldwide.
HelloSign was launched in the course of 2011. In the meantime, it raised $16 million from investors. This is... Read more
Bosch acquires Daimler’s stake in electric motor joint venture
The German car supplier Bosch has announced that they have bought Daimler's share in EM-Motive. It was a joint venture designed to build engines for both electric and hybrid vehicles.
The factory in Hildesheim, Germany, will be expanded. This should meet the growing demand for both electric and Hybr... Read more
Micron definitively acquires IM Flash portfolio from Intel
Micron Technology acquires Intel's IM Flash Memory Technology business from the joint venture that both companies had previously established. In concrete terms, this acquisition means that Intel will cease all activities in this area.
Both parties had already decided at the end of last year to stop ... Read more
Shareholders in Red Hat give the green light for IBM acquisition
Shareholders of Red Hat have approved the acquisition by IBM. The $34 billion acquisition was announced in October 2018. The deal provides IBM with a number of valuable technological resources.
IBM is struggling with lower sales due to stagnating demand for its legacy products. The company has inve... Read more
AWS acquires TSO Logics for efficient use of the cloud
Amazon Web Services has made quite a few acquisitions in the first weeks of 2019. Last week it started with the takeover of the Israeli startup CloudEndure. This week, TSO Logic, a startup from Vancouver, will take over to help companies use their cloud as efficiently as possible.
The companies did ... Read more