Merger and acquisition

Apple Coughs Up $600m To Acquire Parts Of Dialog’s Business

Apple pays hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire engineers, patents and offices from one of its British suppliers

6 years ago

Broadcom Hits Out At ‘Fake’ Pentagon Memo Of CA Acquisition

Mischief making. Pentagon 'request' for national security review of Broadcom's CA acquisition is 'fake'

6 years ago

Qualcomm Abandons Bid For NXP After Chinese Refusal

Announces massive share repurchase program and agrees to halt pursuit of Dutch chipmaker

6 years ago

Broadcom Surprises Many With CA Technologies Acquisition

How does that fit? Chipmaker shocks the markets with surprise acquisition bid for veteran software provider CA

6 years ago

Sharp Returns To PCs With Purchase Of Toshiba PC Division

Foxconn bolsters its PC credentials as its Sharp division scoops up the PC business of Toshiba

7 years ago

Vodafone Buys European Cable Assets Of Liberty Global

Owner of Virgin Media sells most of its European assets to British mobile operator Vodafone

7 years ago

Nokia Tests 5G Calls In France, Acquires SpaceTime Insight

Nokia bolsters IoT portfolio with SpaceTime purchase, and teams up with SFR to test 5G in France

7 years ago

Half Of TSB Customers Still Unable To Access Accounts

IT fiasco continues, as details of Spanish owner Sabadell's chaotic data migration process emerges

7 years ago

Amazon Completes Purchase Of Smart Doorbell Maker Ring

Smart home move for Amazon as it completes purchase of smart doorbell maker Ring

7 years ago

Google Mulls Acquisition Of Nokia’s Aeroplane Broadband Unit – Report

Project Loon addition? Google is reportedly looking to acquire the airplane broadband business of Nokia

7 years ago

GTT Grows Data Centre Network With £1.6bn Interoute Deal

European data centre networking provider snapped by American cloud networking specialist

7 years ago

Broadcom Lowers Qualcomm Offer To $117bn

Broadcom shaves 4 percent off its 'opportunistic' offer for Qualcomm, after objecting to raised bid for NXP

7 years ago

Cisco Will Buy Communication Software Firm BroadSoft For $1.71 Billion

Cisco will look to extend its communications software portfolio with the acquisition

7 years ago

Google Buys HTC Smartphone Talent For $1.1bn

UPDATED: HTC will continue to operate a phone brand and push deeper into virtual reality

7 years ago

Facebook Splashes Out On AI Startup To Boost Messenger Assistant

Facebook will look to make use of Ozlo's knowledge graph that reportedly contains over 2 billion entities

7 years ago

Symantec Acquires Israeli Endpoint Security Firm Fireglass

Fireglass' platform ensures malicious content is executed separately from endpoint devices

8 years ago

Imagination Technologies For Sale After Apple Payment Dispute

Bad Apple? British chip maker puts up the 'for sale' sign after Apple cancels its chip royalty payments

8 years ago

Amazon’s Buyout Of Whole Foods To Speed Up Its Move Into Grocery Sales

ANALYSIS: The on-line retailing giants long quest to become a major player in the grocery industry is about to come…

8 years ago

Softbank Buys Boston Dynamics From Google

Moonshot project shot down. Alphabet finally offloads unwanted robotics division Boston Dynamics

8 years ago

HPE CEO Meg Whitman Hints At More Acquisitions

Spend, spend, spend. Acquisitions will form part of HPE's strategy going forward confirms CEO

8 years ago

Spotify Buys French AI Startup To Boost Music Recommendations

Spotify moves to fight off growing competition from the likes of Apple Music, Deezer and Pandora

8 years ago

VMware Puts Focus On User Experience With Apteligent Acquisition

Software will be integrated to improve application performance and enhance the user experience

8 years ago

Michael Dell: Being Private Gives Dell Technologies An Advantage

Dell EMC World 2017: Eight months on from IT's biggest ever merger and it's so far, so good

8 years ago

Jive And Aurea CEOs Present United Front At JiveWorld 2017

JiveWorld 2017: Elisa Steele and Scott Brighton assure customers during opening keynote

8 years ago

Aurea Software Buys Jive In £357 Million Cash Deal

Jive Software announces sale ahead of JiveWorld 2017 conference

8 years ago

Extreme Networks Buys Brocade Data Centre Business

Data centre networking move sees Extreme buy data centre networking unit, as Brocade breakup continues

8 years ago

UK Tech Boasts Higher Salaries And More Investment Than Other Industries

Salaries and investment into UK companies are higher than ever as digital continues to fuel UK economy

8 years ago

Palo Alto Networks Splashes £85 Million On Behavioural Analytics Firm LightCyber

LightCyber's behavioural monitoring technology will be integrated into Palo Alto's platform by the end of 2017

8 years ago

Apple Acquires Israeli Facial Recognition Startup RealFace

Machine learning powered facial recognition authentication tech could find its way into iPhones and iPads a couple of generations down…

8 years ago