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Verizon closed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s core business this week and with it came Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's resignation and news of layoffs.
Reuters news agency reported Verizon will slash at least 2,000 jobs as it integrates Yahoo into AOL, which Verizon bought two years ago.
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Vista Equity Partners is showing no signs of slowing down its MarTech acquisitions.
The San Francisco-based private equity firm acquired social media management and online community provider Lithium Technologies last week, only a few days after acquiring sales performance management provider Xactly in a deal worth $564 million.
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IBM today completed an acquisition to strengthen its IBM Connections enterprise collaboration offerings.
Armonk, NY-based IBM acquired the XCC technology from its partner, Cologne, Germany-based TIMETOACT GROUP. XCC is a digital workplace hub that IBM officials said will create a "single destination" personalized homepage for employees.
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LinkedIn and Vista Equity Partners each went after their share of the sales technology pie through separate acquisitions this week.
LinkedIn announced it acquired Redwood City, Calif.-based sales tech provider Heighten in a move designed to bolster its Sales Navigator platform. Officials at LinkedIn made the announcement on Tuesday.
Meanwhile,
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European Union regulators have fined Facebook $122 million for providing what it describes as misleading information during the European Commission’s (EC) investigation into Facebook’s 2014 acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion.
The EC is the executive arm of the European Union.
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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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Jive Software kicked off its JiveWorld conference this morning with a surprise announcement: ESW Capital has acquired the enterprise collaboration provider for $462 million in cash.
The move confirms what many analysts had predicted for Jive in the last few years: a buyout for a company whose value peaked at
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Jim Amsler of GlassIG recently asked the question, “What Does the Gimmal Acquisition of RecordLion Mean for IG? ”
GlassIG is a thought leader in the information governance (IG) space and respected competitor of both Gimmal and RecordLion.
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Marketo announced today it acquired sales engagement software provider ToutApp, in a move aimed at helping organizations better coordinate their sales and marketing technologies.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Marketo, based in San Mateo, Calif., provides marketing automation software.
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Microsoft doubled down on its productivity vision yesterday with the announcement that it would buy Intentional Software.
Bellevue, Wash.-based Intentional develops productivity tools across hardware devices and is pushing the boundaries of what can be done in the productivity space.
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Accenture announced it has bought Paris-based OCTO Technology, a consultancy firm specializing in digital transformation services and software development.
Dublin-based Accenture will fold OCTO into Accenture Digital to "expand (its) digital service offering in France.
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Consolidation among customer experience technology vendors continued today with two acquisitions.
Hootsuite acquired a Snapchat analytics solution created by Naritiv, a Los Angeles startup that has helped companies understand and enhance the impact of their digital campaigns on Snapchat.
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SendGrid, a customer communication platform that delivers more than 30 billion emails each month, just acquired email marketing automation startup Bizzy.
The acquisition announced gives the Denver-based email provider and MailChimp competitor a tool that leverages an algorithm to segment users based on purchase behaviors.
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Two platforms designed to encourage crowd sourced innovation and ideation are coming together today with Spigit's acquisition of Kindling.
San Francisco-based Spigit is acquiring New York City-based Kindling to grow its marketshare, Spigit CEO Scott Raskin told CMSWire. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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