Siemens acquires COMSA for additional knowledge on designing electrical systems in cars
Siemens announced today that it will acquire COMSA Computer und Software. The German company develops software for the design of electrical systems and cabling in cars. The LDorado software is the market leader in this field in Germany and will soon be part of Siemens' automotive portfolio.
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IBM sells software portfolio with Notes and Domino to HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies intends to acquire part of IBM's software portfolio. According to the company, the investment amounts to USD 1.8 billion and includes the acquisition of solutions such as Notes and Domino. The transaction should be completed by mid-2019.
The deal also includes solutions such as Conn... Read more
NXP no longer considers new conversations with Qualcomm relevant
Last Sunday, the G20 summit took place in Buenos Aires. At the summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping and American President Donald Trump spoke to each other. It turned out that their conversation was about the off-track takeover of the Dutch NXP by the American chipmaker Qualcomm, among other things.... Read more
Juniper Networks puts more effort into multicloud through acquisition of HTBASE
Juniper Networks acquires the supplier of a software-based platform for large business multi-client applications HTBASE. With this, the network specialist wants to further expand its own software-based Contrail Multicloud management platform.
The acquisition of HTBASE is intended to ensure that the ... Read more
“European Commission doubted the viability of Tele2.
Yesterday, the European Commission took a somewhat remarkable decision. It approved the planned merger of T-Mobile and Tele2. As a result, there will soon be only three network providers in the Netherlands with their own mobile networks. It seems that the European Commission gave its approval becaus... Read more
European Commission approves merger of T-Mobile and Tele2
It was already expected yesterday and now the ball is in the court: the European Commission has approved the merger of the Dutch branch of T-Mobile and Tele2. There are no additional conditions attached to the permission. This is probably due to certain commitments made by T-Mobile.
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T-Mobile gets permission to take over Dutch branch Tele2′.
It seems that T-Mobile is getting permission from the European Commission to take over the Dutch branch of Tele2. The Commission is expected to complete its investigation into the takeover on 30 November and to indicate fairly soon afterwards whether it will be allowed to take place.
This is reporte... Read more
Puppet driver thinks IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat may be “disastrous”
Earlier this year, IBM surprised the tech industry when it announced that it would acquire open source company Red Hat for 34 billion dollars. The acquisition is the largest combination of two software companies in history and is expected to expand IBM's cloud business.
IBM has recently made a major... Read more
Logitech and Plantronics do not follow up on acquisition discussions
Logitech confirms the rumours that it was talking to Plantronics about a possible acquisition, but says that no deal could be reached. According to Reuters, the Swiss company had $2.2 billion left over for the acquisition.
Logitech is particularly strong in the consumer segment with its keyboards, m... Read more
“Apple acquires Silk Labs to enable local AI.
Apple wants to build artificial intelligence directly into its devices. If it succeeds in doing so, it will no longer be necessary to process the workload of AI on a mobile device in the cloud. To take a step forward, Apple now acquires a small company, Silk Labs.
That's what The Information reports... Read more