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Tibco Goes Private After £2.6bn Buyout

Tibco Software becomes the latest enterprise software provider to be acquired by a private equity firm

10 years ago

SAP Beefs Up Travel With Concur Purchase

SAP dips deep into its pockets to acquire expense software maker Concur for $8.3 billion (£5bn)

10 years ago

Rackspace Names New Boss After Takeover Refusal

Rackspace rebuffs takeover offers and ends 'strategic review'. It also appoints a new CEO

10 years ago

Cognizant Buys TriZetto To Bolster Healthcare

Cognizant acquires TriZetto in an effort to expand and grow its healthcare operation

10 years ago

Microsoft In Talks To Buy Minecraft Firm

Redmond could be about to spend a large amount of money to acquire the firm behind the Minecraft game

10 years ago

Amazon Acquires Twitch For Nearly $1bn

The deal for Twitch, which allows people to watch streaming gameplay, is one of Amazon's biggest to date

10 years ago

Facebook Tightens Security With PrivateCore Purchase

The social network is beefing up the securtity of its servers with the purchase of a US software start-up

10 years ago

BlackBerry Buys Secusmart – The Firm That NSA-Proofed Merkel’s Phone

Secusmart secured Angela Merkel's BlackBerry against NSA snooping. Now BlackBerry wants to offer that more widely

10 years ago

Twitter Adds MadBits Image Search, Reports Growth

Twitter acquires an image search startup, and reports encouraging financial results

10 years ago

Juniper Sells Junos Pulse Security Unit For £147m

Juniper is to offload its Junos Pulse mobile security business as part of a wide-ranging restructure

10 years ago

IBM Fails To Offload Semiconductor Biz – Report

IBM and Globalfoundries walk away from a deal for IBM's semiconductor unit, after a disagreement over price

10 years ago

Oracle To Snap Up Micros Systems For £2.9bn – Report

Oracle poised to announce its largest acquisition since it purchased Sun Microsystems back in 2009

10 years ago

Apple Gets Its Groove On With Beats Purchase

Apple is to pay $3bn (£1.8bn) for the maker of the popular Beats headphones and other audio equipment

11 years ago

Atos To Acquire Fellow French Outfit Bull

Keeping it in the French family, IT services giant Atos is to acquire compatriot Bull

11 years ago

Cisco Seeks To Up Anti-Malware Game With ThreatGRID Bid

Cisco wants to get better at blocking zero-day threats

11 years ago

IBM Bolsters Marketing Automation With Silverpop Purchase

IBM adds personalised customer engagement solutions to its portfolio thanks to the acquisition of Silverpop

11 years ago

Lenovo IBM Server Deal Faces US Security Probe

The purchase of IBM's x86 server business by Chinese Lenovo is being probed on national security grounds

11 years ago

Facebook Acquires VR Headset Maker Oculus

Facebook surprises with the £1.1bn purchase of virtual-reality headset maker Oculus VR

11 years ago

IBM Workers Strike Over Transfer To Lenovo

Protests at Chinese factory concern the terms of new contracts following IBM’s agreement to sell its server business to Lenovo

11 years ago

IBM Closes Purchase Of DBaaS Provider Cloudant

Big Blue completes its acquisition of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider Cloudant

11 years ago

Motorola Sale To Lenovo Applauded By Analysts

Google's sale of its Motorola unit to Lenovo has been widely welcomed by the analyst community

11 years ago

IBM Seeks Buyers For SDN Business – Report

IBM is reportedly seeking to divest itself of its SDN unit and has approached several networking vendors

11 years ago

Lenovo Expands With New ThinkServers

Chinese company expands its server portfolio with new ThinkServers whilst acquiring IBM's x86 server business

11 years ago

Lenovo Confirms Purchase Of IBM x86 Server Business For £1.4 billion

Lenovo will also take on 7,500 IBM workers under terms of the deal

11 years ago

Alcatel-Lucent Talks With Unify Over Enterprise Unit Sale – Report

Alcatel-Lucent reportedly considers selling off its enterprise business and is said to be talking with Unify

11 years ago

Citrix Brings Windows VDs To Macbook, Buys Framehawk

Citrix buys Framehawk and launches Windows virtual desktop product for MacBook users

11 years ago

Palo Alto Networks Buys Security Firm Morta

Palo Alto Networks is to acquire security startup Morta, established by former NSA and Air Force members

11 years ago

Apigee Buys InsightsOne For Big Data Analytics

Apigee has bolstered its big data credentials after adding InsightsOne to its API management capabilities

11 years ago

Pinterest Buys Image Recognition Firm VisualGraph

Acquisition looks to boost the image recognition capabilities of Pinterest's search facilities

11 years ago

Oracle Boosts SDN Portfolio With Corente Deal

Oracle is to purchase Corente, which specialises in software-defined networks for WAN environments

11 years ago