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Motorola Solutions Acquires Airwave For £817m

British firm's acquisition welcomed by trade union as Motorola spends close to a £1bn for Airwave

9 years ago

Dell’s EMC Acquisition In Danger Over Tax Problems – Report

Hefty tax bill could kill off what could be the largest acquisition deal in tech history for Dell and EMC

9 years ago

Cisco Targets Digital TV With 1 Mainstream Acquisition

Connected devices ahoy! Cisco tackles digital TV portability with purchase of cloud video platform

9 years ago

Western Digital Coughs Up £12.2bn For SanDisk

Purchase of flash storage giant Sandisk is latest in large acquisition deals currently reshaping tech industry

9 years ago

IBM Opens Cognitive Business Unit, Buys Storage Firm Cleversafe

What happened to Smarter Planet? New consulting unit to help clients tackle 'cognitive business'

9 years ago

Citrix Makes Final Sale Push

Company makes final attempt to sale itself as a single entity before activist investor forces asset sell-off

9 years ago

EBay Enterprise Sell-Off Deal Close

Another private equity group reportedly close to buying eBay Enterprise unit, as PayPal spinoff nears completion

9 years ago

Salesforce’s Benioff Claims SAP ‘Is Scared’

Spurned wrath? Marc Benioff blasts SAP CEO claiming he rebuffed a genuine partnership offer

9 years ago

Cisco To Buy OpenDNS For £400m In Cash

Cisco snaps up DNS cloud security provider to redouble efforts on its 'Security Everywhere' approach

9 years ago

Spotify Buys Analytics Firm For Big Data Music Streaming

Spotify snaps up analytics specialist Seed Scientific, which previously worked for Apple's Beats Music

9 years ago

Microsoft Not Interested In Salesforce Takeover

He is just not that into you! Microsoft and SAP deny interest in Salesforce.com acquisition

10 years ago

Is Microsoft About To Bid For Salesforce?

Microsoft joins hunt for Salesforce.com, in what would be a remarkable turnaround in their relationship

10 years ago

Is Intel Now Plotting A Hostile Bid For Altera?

A report suggests Intel's stalled pursuit of Altera could soon be renewed with a hostile takeover bid

10 years ago

Salesforce Receives Takeover Approach

Is Oracle the unnamed suitor that has reportedly made a takeover approach to Salesforce?

10 years ago

Singtel Targets Cyber Security With Trustwave Purchase

Asian telecom operator pays over half a billion pounds for Trustwave

10 years ago

Samsung Rumored To Be Eyeing AMD Acquisition

World's second-largest chipmaker could be a target as Samsung looks to expand hardware division

10 years ago

Apple Snaps Up FoundationDB – Report

Technology giant reportedly purchases high performance databases specialists

10 years ago

Box Looks To BYOD With Subspace Acquisition

Cloud storage player buys startup that offers staff browser-based access to enterprise applications

10 years ago

HP Explores Aruba Networks Purchase

HP in talks with Aruba Networks over a possible acquisition to bolster its Wi-Fi infrastructure credentials

10 years ago

Samsung Snaps Up LoopPay For Galaxy S6 Mobile Payments

Purchase of payments specialist should confirm a mobile wallet in upcoming Samsung flagship device

10 years ago

Facebook Acquires QuickFire For Smaller Videos

Social networking giant's acquisition spree continues with purchase of video compression specialist

10 years ago

Gemalto finalises SafeNet acquisition for $890m

International digital security vendor Gemalto has let the ink dry on its acquisition of SafeNet, a specialist in data protection.

10 years ago

BlackBerry Gains Secusmart To Foil Snoopers

BlackBerry closes up acquisition of German specialist that secured Angela Merkel’s BlackBerry against the NSA

10 years ago

Microsoft Lets Slip Acompli Acquisition

Oops. Has Microsoft let the cat out of the bag regarding a possible acquisition of email startup Acompli?

10 years ago

Displeased Yahoo Investors Seek AOL Deal – Report

Yahoo continues its acquisition spree as unhappy investors look to AOL for a possible merger

10 years ago

Ericsson Looks To Data Centre Management With Sentilla Buy

Ericsson bolsters its data centre and cloud asset management portfolio with Sentilla purchase

10 years ago

Qualcomm Offers Up $2.5bn For UK Chipmaker CSR

American giant is the biggest smartphone processor manufacturer in the world

10 years ago

SCC Adds To Data Centre Portfolio With T3 Facility

SCC adds to its data centre estate with acquisition of Hampshire data centre from a Scottish energy firm

10 years ago