‘Mailchimp considers €8.5b+ sale’
Mailchimp is considering a sale, according to Bloomberg. The marketing platform provider could be valued at more than $10 billion (€8.5 billion).
According to people familiar with the matter, Mailchimp is attracting interest from private equity firms and large tech companies. It is not known w... Read more
Verizon sells entire media division, which gets renamed to Yahoo
The American telecom provider has decided to split off its entire media division. The various media under Verizon will be in the hands of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which is putting down 5 billion dollars (over 4 billion euros) for the business.
Verizon's media branch is the r... Read more
Dell selling Boomi for over 3 billion euros
Dell Technologies is selling iPaaS subsidiary Boomi to venture capitalists Francisco Partners and TPG Capital. With the sale, Dell Technologies wants to focus more on its own infrastructure and applications for hybrid and private cloud.
After several weeks of rumours, which we wrote about earlie... Read more
Hackers use cloud services to enhance their flexibility and speed
Are underground cloud services a thing Well, they are quite real, and criminals are taking advantage of their presence to accelerate attacks and give compromised businesses no room to react.
This information comes from Trend Micro’s new report on cybersecurity. The firm found terabytes of inte... Read more
Cloudera explores sale after talks with potential buyers
Data management specialist Cloudera is looking at potentially selling the company after several talks with multiple potential buyers.
According to Bloomberg, the company hired a financial advisor to take a look at the various options. However, sources also stress that nothing has been decided ye... Read more
Zendesk brings sales and support teams together with Duet platform
Zendesk has announced a new platform that combines tools for sales and support teams. The platform, Duet, is designed for SMBs who want to offer customers a personalized experience that includes pre- to post-sales interactions.
Duet combines functions of Zendesk Sell and Zendesk Support, knows ZDNe... Read more
‘Huawei wants to sell its submarine cable activities’.
Huawei plans to sell its submarine telecom cable business. That's what an application from a buyer who owns Reuters says. Hengtong Optic-Electric, a manufacturer of optical telecommunication products, is interested in the department of the Chinese company.
In its application for the Shanghai Stock ... Read more
“Plantronics is considering putting itself on the market.
Plantronics, an American manufacturer of Bluetooth headphones and headsets for gamers, is considering selling itself. Earlier this year, the company acquired Polycom for 2 billion dollars. Of course, Plantronics does not want to respond to the rumours.
The generally very reliable press agency Reuter... Read more
British investor puts Exact in the shop window
Exact, the Dutch specialist in accounting software, has been put up for sale by owner Apax. That's what the Financieele Dagblad writes. The British investment company hopes that the sale will yield about 1.5 billion euros.
According to the business newspaper, the sales process is still at an early s... Read more