acquisitions

BlackBerry Acquires WatchDox To Boost File Security

BlackBerry boosts security with WatchDox and new Israel R&D centre

10 years ago

How Will Alcatel Lucent Takeover Strengthen Nokia’s Networking Ambitions?

NEWS ANALYSIS: Experts give their view on the challenges the new Nokia Alcatel-Lucent will face in networking market

10 years ago

Nokia In Talks To Buy Rival Alcatel-Lucent

Nokia could create major European networking giant with Alcatel-Lucent move

10 years ago

Microsoft To ‘Reinvent’ Mobile Calendars After Sunrise Takeover

Microsoft buys mobile calendar app developer Sunrise to boost mobile productivity apps

10 years ago

BT Finalises £12.5bn EE Deal But Will Still Launch MVNO

BT hopes to complete EE acquisition by the end of 2015-16 financial year but still has mobile plans before then

10 years ago

Three Owner Hutchison Whampoa Agrees £10.25bn O2 Takeover

O2 takeover by Three's parent company could create the UK's largest mobile operator

10 years ago

Why Would Samsung Buy BlackBerry?

BLOG: Samsung takeover of BlackBerry might make more sense than you think

10 years ago

Three Owner Hutchison Whampoa ‘In Talks’ To Buy O2

Hutchison Whampoa is reportedly in early stage talks to purchase O2, mimicking a similar takeover in Ireland

10 years ago

Software Industry Mergers, Acquisitions Rise 14 Percent In 2014

Business software had the largest rise in deal volume on a year-over-year basis with a 20 percent improvement, from 343…

10 years ago

TalkTalk Buys Blinkbox And Tesco Broadband Business

Tesco flogs Blinkbox as TalkTalk moves to strengthen its television service

10 years ago

BT To Decide O2 And EE Takeover Plans Within ‘Ten Days’

BT board reportedly discusses mobile operator takeovers but has not yet made its decision

10 years ago

Microsoft Acquires Mobile Email Start-Up Acompli

Acompli's software is available on Android and iOS and allows users to manage email from sources including Outlook, Gmail and…

10 years ago

Intel Acquires PasswordBox To Counter ‘Password Fatigue’

PasswordBox's identity-management services will become part of Intel Security's Safe Identity operation

10 years ago

Vodafone ‘Considering’ Bid For Virgin Media Owner Liberty Global

Vodafone is reportedly preparing to react to BT's mobile expansion with Liberty Global offer but could also target TalkTalk

10 years ago

BT Confirms O2 Takeover Talks

BT says it has entered negotiations with O2 and another operator regarding a potential takeover

10 years ago

Zebra Technologies Buys Motorola Solutions’ Enterprise Unit

Motorola to focus on public safety and commercial business after latest breakup

10 years ago

Lenovo Reignites Interest In BlackBerry – Report

Lenovo is considering another move for BlackBerry as part of ongoing mobile push, claim reports

10 years ago

IBM Pays £931m To Offload Semiconductor Business

IBM will pay Globalfoundries $1.5bn to take on chip operations

10 years ago

BlackBerry To Offer Dual-Billing After Movirtu Acquisition

BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) users will be able to fairly and accurately split the bill between corporate and personal use

10 years ago

AVG Will Pay Up To $220 Million For ‘Humanised’ MDM Specialist Location Labs

The security vendor wants to take advantage of Location Labs’ partnerships with mobile operators

10 years ago

Samsung Buys IoT Firm SmartThings For Home Automation

Samsung follows Google and Apple into the smart-home market with SmartThings purchase

10 years ago

IBM Acquires Lighthouse Security To Improve Identity Management

The deal follows the purchase of identity management specialist CrossIdeas, which was announced last last week

10 years ago

Teradata Acquires Two Hadoop-Related Start-Ups

Revelytix and Hadapt will become part of Teradata’s R&D arm

10 years ago

Yahoo Bolsters Mobile Analytics With Flurry Purchase

Yahoo continues to look outside its business to add value, with the acquisition of mobile analytics startup Flurry

10 years ago

SanDisk Is Buying Fusion-io For $1.1 Billion

Flash manufacturer hopes innovative enterprise products will protect it against the volatility of the memory chip market

10 years ago

Google Is Buying Into Satellite Manufacturing To Improve Maps

The acquisition of Skybox Imaging for $500 million will allow the company to marry navigation and analytics

10 years ago

Rackspace Investigates Possible Sale

Despite strong profits, Rackspace has asked Morgan Stanley to look at long term options

11 years ago

Google Improves Cloud App Monitoring With The Acquisition Of Stackdriver

A dashboard to monitor apps hosted in the public cloud will be integrated into Google’s Cloud Platform

11 years ago

Apple To Buy Headphone Specialists Beats For £1.9bn?

Apple goes shopping for headphones to boost streaming and wearable efforts

11 years ago

Microsoft Completes £4.6bn Nokia Handset Takeover

Nokia exits the mobile phone market as Microsoft deal is confirmed

11 years ago