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Oracle Beefs Up Cloud Portfolio With Instantis Acquisition

Oracle continues its acquisition streak with the purchase of cloud project management specialist Instantis

12 years ago

Riverbed Buys Opnet To Bolster APM Abilities

Riverbed Technology has paid a cool $1 billion for application performance management specialist Opnet

12 years ago

RSA Builds On Big Data Security Strategy With Silver Tail Acquisition

Acquisition builds on Art Coviello's promise to deliver Big Data-led strategy

12 years ago

Yahoo Builds On Mayer’s Mobile Promise With Stamped Acquisition

Marissa Mayer signs off her first Yahoo acquisition

12 years ago

EMC Boss Tucci Dismisses Juniper Acquisition Talk

Joe Tucci has reiterated EMC's relationship to Cisco and denied acquisition plans for Juniper Networks

12 years ago

Microsoft Beefs Up App Security With PhoneFactor Purchase

Microsoft is to enhance the security of business apps on mobile devices with the acquisition of PhoneFactor

12 years ago

Cisco Acquires vCider To Strengthen Network Virtualisation

Cisco has acquired virtual network overlay specialist vCider for integration into its ONE strategy

12 years ago

Motorola Mobility Buys Face Recognition Developer Viewdle

Google is expected to integrate the technology into Android smartphones

12 years ago

BMC Keeping Schtum On Rumours Of Sale

BMC has reportedly already brought in the bankers to court suitors

12 years ago

IBM Snaps Up Brit Storage Software Firm Butterfly

Big Blue looks to boost its storage and software arms

12 years ago

Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com Turns Rypple Into Work.com

Work.com will "revolutionise" the way employees are recognised and motivated, says Salesforce.com

12 years ago

Google Strengthens Imaging Offering With Nik Software Acquisition

Snapseed developer aims to be Google's answer to Facebook's Instagram

12 years ago

Google Readies Motorola Unit Sell-Off

Google is reportedly preparing to offload the set-top box unit from its recently acquired Motorola division

12 years ago

Rackspace Expands Cloud Email With Mailgun Acquisition

Rackspace has boosted its portfolio of cloud-based email services and applications with the acquistion of Mailgun

12 years ago

IBM Pays $1.3bn For HR Software Maker Kenexa

IBM's all-cash deal for Kenexa will allow it to enter the booming human resources software market and reinforce its social-business…

12 years ago

Facebook’s Instagram Buy Approved, Now Worth ‘Only’ $750m

US regulators approve buy, but the value of the deal drops significantly thanks to Facebook's shares dive

12 years ago

Colt Buys ThinkGrid To Sell Cloud To SMEs

Smaller firms will buy cloud services through resellers, says Colt

12 years ago

Cisco Closes £3.2bn Acquisition Of British Firm NDS

Cisco has bolstered its video capabilities after completing the $5 billion (£3.2bn) acquisition of NDS Group

12 years ago

Oracle Makes Data Centre Network Move With Xsigo Buy

Oracle has acquired Xsigo as it seeks to beef up its I/O expertise to cloud-optimised data centres

12 years ago

Apple Buys AuthenTec To Boost Mobile Security

Apple has moved to strengthen the security credentials of the iPhone and iPad with the acquisition of AuthenTec

12 years ago

Oracle Buys US Project Management Specialist Skire

Yet another acquisition boosts the potential of the Oracle Cloud

12 years ago

Oracle Beefs Up Social Networking With Involver Deal

Oracle has made another social networking acquisition, this time purchasing marketing specialist Involver

12 years ago

Quest Software Will Be Dell’s Cornerstone

Quest Software makes huge margins. But that's not why Dell bought it for $2.4 billion, says Chris Preimesberger

12 years ago

Dell Confirms $2.4bn Quest Software Acquisition

Dell confirms it has agreed to buy Quest, as it looks to bolster its growing software division

12 years ago

Digital Realty Trust Buys Three Data Centres In London

London's data centre market continues to prove attractive after Digital Realty announced an acquisition that will give it three new…

12 years ago

Report: Dell Back In Quest Software Hunt With $2.32bn Bid

Dell is back in the bidding for Quest Software, a report claims

12 years ago

Microsoft Buys Social Network Yammer For £763m

Microsoft has confirmed plans to purchase enterprise social networking site Yammer for $1.2 billion

12 years ago

Report: Dell In ‘$2.15bn Bid’ For Quest Software

Dell could be set to make one of its biggest acquisitions to date if sources are right

12 years ago

Citrix Plots Mobile Madness With Bytemobile Buy

Citrix hopes to pester mobile operators for contracts after its Bytemobile deal

12 years ago

Google Preps Microsoft Challenge With Quickoffice Purchase

Google has acquired office productivity applications geared towards the mobile computing sector

12 years ago