Accenture acquires IOT security company Deja vu Security
Accenture has announced that it has taken over Deja vu Security. Deja vu Security is a research and consulting company that focuses on helping customers design, create and test Internet of Things (IoT) products in such a way that cybersecurity is already built in. Financial details of the acquisitio... Read more
EU gives IBM unconditional approval for acquisition of Red Hat
The American tech giant IBM would receive unconditional permission from the European Union (EU) to acquire Red Hat. That's what the insiders say about Reuters. Big Blue announced last October its intention to buy Red Hat for 34 billion dollars.
The European Commission is due to announce a decision ... Read more
GitHub expands tools for software teams with acquisition of Pull Panda
GitHub has taken over startup Pull Panda for an unknown amount. Pull Panda is a small company that creates collaboration tools for software teams. According to his LinkedIn page, the startup has only one employee: founder Abi Noda.
Pull Panda, founded eighteen months ago, is the creator of three pop... Read more
Palo Alto Networks completes acquisition of PureSec
Palo Alto Networks has completed the acquisition of serverless security company PureSec. With the acquisition, the company aims to better secure the customer journey to multicloud environments and expand its Prisma cloud security strategy, Yahoo writes. Palo Alto Networks (hereinafter referred to as... Read more
VMware wants to take over Avi Networks
VMware wants to make data centers more cloud-like. In order to achieve this, the company takes over Avi Networks for an unknown amount of money. Avi Networks offers application delivery services to large enterprises such as Deutschebank, Cisco and Adobe, in a so-called multi-cloud fabric.
With this... Read more
Dassault Systemes buys Medidata for 5.8 billion dollars
The French tech company Dassault Systems acquires Medidata Solutions in an all-cash deal worth 5.8 billion dollars (5.1 billion euros). Medidata creates software that is used to monitor the progress of clinical trials.
"It's a logical evolution of the scope of what we do," says Bernard Charles, pre... Read more
Intel acquires data center network startup Barefoot Networks
Intel acquires start-up Barefoot Networks for an unknown amount of money. Thanks to this start-up, developers can write code for network hardware that runs directly on the processor.
The data center network start-up has raised more than $150 million during funding rounds from giants such as Google, ... Read more
Virtualization company Zoomdata taken over by Logi Analytics
Logi Analytics, a developer's toolkit for putting data analytics capabilities into their software applications, has acquired data visualization company Zoomdata. The amount of money involved in the takeover is unknown.
The acquisition should help Logi Analytics improve their embedded analytics capa... Read more
Thales acquires AI company Psibernetix for development Certifiable AI
Thales has announced that it has taken over Psibernetix. Psibernetix is working on artificial intelligence (AI). The acquisition should make it possible to develop so-called Certifiable AI.
Psibernetix became known for its aerial combat application ALPHA, which consistently defeated the world's bes... Read more
Salesforce acquires Tableau for 15.7 billion dollars
Salesforce has announced Tableau's acquisition of $15.7 billion ($13.9 billion). Tableau is a manufacturer of business intelligence software that allows users to combine data from multiple sources into rich and easy to share visualizations.
Tableau, which was founded in 2003, itself states that it ... Read more