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Slack Buys Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride, SharePoint 2019 Enters Preview, More News
Digital workplace news, featuring Slack's acquisition (and sunsetting) of HipChat and Stride, Microsoft's release of SharePoint 2019 in Preview, and more.
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Lithium Technologies Acquires Jive Software's External Community Business
It didn't take long for ESW Capital to break up Jive Software. ESW Capital announced plans to sell Jive's external community business, Jive-x, to Lithium Technologies just shy of four months after the private equity firm acquired Jive, company officials announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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What the Jive Acquisition Means for the Community Industry
On May 1, Jive announced private equity firm ESW Capital had acquired it in a deal valued at $462 million. The buy will move Jive from being a publicly-traded company to a member of the Aurea Software portfolio.
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Will Jive's Acquisition Revive the Company's Fortunes?
Jive CEO Elisa Steele took the stage at the company's JiveWorld conference in Las Vegas today to reassure customers and partners alike following yesterday's announcement of its acquisition by ESW Capital. The message Steele shared was clear: the company faced some tough choices in the past which drove the
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