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BlackBerry's Good Technology Buy
Ask your fifth grader what a BlackBerry is and he’ll probably point you to fruit that grows on a bush.
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Metalogix Buys MetaVis In Advance of SharePoint 2016 Release
Cloud management and migration specialist Metalogix announced this morning that it is buying MetaVis for its cloud collaboration service management platform. The price was not disclosed.
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How Salesforce Builds Its Ecosystem, 1 Company at a Time
John Somorjai was the corporate counsel at Oracle 18 years ago when an opening popped up in the corporate development group. He's never looked back. Starting as a manager, he found he had a knack for spotting good companies and cutting deals.
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Digging Inside Oracle's Acquisition Strategy
Oracle’s latest acquisitions show it believes Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is for real, that CRM is a major growth space and that it must strengthen its cloud-based applications, analysts told CMSWire. In December, Oracle, one year after it announced its $871 million buy of marketing automation company Eloqua, announced plans to acquire
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Google, IBM and the Battle for Automated Customer Experience
Google has pinned its acquisition strategy on data, analytics, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). IBM is very focused in data analysis and levering its own AI technology, Watson, into other areas. All signs point to a looming battle between these two technology giants.
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Is There a Theme to Google's Latest Acquisition Binge?
Boston Dynamics, Nest and DeepMind. In the past month, Google has gone on yet another acquisition binge, spending at least $4 billion on a trio of startups that seem only loosely connected — robotics, home automation and artificial intelligence, respectively.
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Oracle Buys BigMachines, Increasing Cloud-Based Sales Functionality
Oracle just announced it has bought Chicago-based Configure, Price and Quote (CPQ) provider BigMachines in a move that will greatly enhance its cloud-based sales functionality. While the details of the deal were not disclosed, some sources suggest Oracle could have paid more than $400 million.
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Metalogix Acquires Idera's SharePoint Tools
Metalogix has been steadily buying up hefty swaths of the Microsoft SharePoint ecosystem -- and it's now bought up Idera's SharePoint business. It includes tools that focus on backup, maintenance, security and governance.
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Tim Cook Hints at the Future of All Things Apple During D11 Chat
Quite why CEOs are invited to ATD's events I'm not sure, they can't comment on anything the company has yet to disclose, generally toe the company line and regurgitate the usual spiel on existing issues.
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Oracle Buys Eloqua, Cloud Based Marketing Automation Company, for $871 Million
One of the biggest names in IT, Oracle, has announced it plans to purchase Eloqua, a cloud based Marketing Automation provider that had been positioning itself as a revenue performance management company. Yes, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he wouldn't be making any big moves back at OpenWorld this fall (heard
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EPiServer Completes Purchase of Mediachase
Sometimes, a partnership is just meant to be. Building on many successful integrations since 2009, EPiServer acquires Mediachase and makes Mediachase's eCommerce engine a permanent component of the EPiServer Commerce solution. What is Mediachase? Mediachase is an eCommerce and collaboration software shop that offers an eCommerce Framework (ECF).
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SDL's Acquisition of Alterian: Get the Details
So SDL officially announced the completion its acquisition of Alterian, a provider of web engagement management solutions. But the details were very light. We change that right now. The SDL Divisions Grow So let's start with a few basics. With the acquisition of Alterian, SDL has added two new divisions
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Symantec Lands LiveOffice
Symantec Corp. announced the acquisition of LiveOffice for a cool US$ 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. Cloud Bound Last year, Symantec joined the cloud storage and backup race with
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SDL Acquires Alterian, Beefing Up Its Customer Experience Story
I expect you've all heard the story by now: SDL has acquired Alterian. So What's the Deal? There's no official announcement from either company that I can find yet, but that doesn't negate the truth: that Alterian had a change of heart. What Alterian received was £68.4 million.
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