Acquisitions News & Articles

So SDL officially announced the completion its acquisition of Alterian, a provider of web engagement management solutions. But the details were very light. We change that right now.

Symantec Corp. announced the acquisition of LiveOffice for a cool US$ 115 million. LiveOffice, Symantec’s hosted archiving OEM partner for Enterprise Vault.cloud, will add a cloud-based messaging protection solution to Symantec's information security and management solutions arsenal.

I expect you've all heard the story by now: SDL has acquired Alterian.

The only thing that is clear about the HP acquisition of Autonomy deal at the moment is that it was concluded, after the U$ 10.24 billion deal was finally given the green light by 87% of Autonomy’s shareholders.

Social networking is a tough business these days, even if you're at the top of the game, like Facebook. Google might have made repeated attempts -- and failures -- to make a dent in Facebook's social networking business, but the search giant's most recent effort, Google+,  is seen as serious competition by Facebook with its simplicity and potential for being a viable platform for apps and games. In the face of tough competition, Facebook is looking into beefing up its capabilities through acquisitions that will improve its services and capabilities.

HP's third quarter earnings release confirms the offer to acquire information management software vendor Autonomy. As CMSWire readers know, Autonomy is also the proud owner of the assets once known as Interwoven. This makes for yet another exciting purchase in our sector, most recently following Oracle's acquisition of Fatwire Software.

Quark Software, Inc., the 30 year-old desktop and multi-channel web publishing stalwart, and competitor of Adobe Systems, has been acquired by a California-based private equity firm. Details of the deal have been kept close to the vest, and management outlook is optimistic.

With the acquisition of Fatwire all but completed, it may be a while before Oracle (news, site) buys anything else, CEO Larry Ellison said in a conference call, following the release of Q4 figures that showed a growth in net income of 36% to US$ 3.2 billion.

Google is serious about getting more social and analytical this year. Today it was announced that the Internet giant has purchased PostRank, a monitoring service that packs a hanfdul of features for measuring engagement and influence, and maintaining brand integrity over the social media space. These capabilities wrap-up inside Google Analytics will be a powerful combination. We can't wait.

The world of enterprise collaboration and the social enterprise is in for a turn, as Microsoft grabs VOIP and collaboration vendor Skype in a deal valued at US$ 8.5 bil. Last week, all the talk was of Google or Facebook buying Skype for something like US$ 4-5 billion, but Redmond has trumped them both with a monster offer.

Today the news dropped that San Francisco-based SaaS Web content management vendor, Clickability, which had previous raised more than US$ 15 million in backing, was purchased by Limelight Networks for US$ 10 million. Ouch. 

Google brought the fire this year with weighty moves aimed at expanding its kingdom into the social media and enterprise realm. Consequently, the Internet giant also took a lot of heat for exposing too much data and kicking out products that nobody really liked. You win some, you lose some, right? Here's a look back at the highlights. 

It’s said that where there's smoke there's fire. So let’s try and read the smoke signals from Wall Street over the past two days that suggest Oracle (news, site) is in the market to buy EMC (news, site).

Following the recent acquisition of Six Apart many speculated -- often pessimistically -- about the future of the once ground-breaking Movable Type (MT) software. We sat down with the current MT product manager for a chat about the details. Here's what we learned.

Say hello to SAY Media, Inc. The new company is a combination of media advertising player VideoEgg and Moveable Type's maker, Six Apart. The acquisition and new company formation have just been announced. Company reps assert that the combined media network now reaches more than 345 million unique visitors. Not much was said about the Movable Type web publishing software which launched Six Apart nine years ago this month. Speculation abounds.