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OpenText's Loss, RSA's Gain: Rohit Ghai Leaves Dell EMC ECD
A second top executive has resigned from Dell EMC's Enterprise Content Division (ECD), injecting more uncertainty about the fate of Documentum and its sister products as their acquisition by OpenText nears. OpenText announced its plans to acquire Documentum and EMC's other ECD businesses, including InfoArchive and EMC Leap in
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Atlassian to Acquire Trello in $425M Enterprise Collaboration Deal
Atlassian will gain a "critical component" for its enterprise collaboration software toolset — social task management — through its planned $425 million acquisition of project workflow provider Trello, an analyst told CMSWire this morning. Atlassian, which has headquarters in Sydney, Australia and San Francisco, announced today a definitive agreement
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Lionbridge to Go Private in $360M Deal With H.I.G Capital
Publicly traded Lionbridge Technologies today announced an agreement to be acquired by private equity firm H.I.G. Capital in a deal valued at $360 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Lionbridge shareholders will receive $5.75 for each share of Lionbridge common stock. Waltham, Mass.-based Lionbridge is a provider of globalization
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Workplace by Facebook Expands Third-Party Integrations, More News
Workplace by Facebook got a boost this week with the announcement of integration support for CRM, email, calendar and other productivity apps. Integration support will allow enterprises to customize the enterprise collaboration solution out of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook. A post on the Facebook developers blog explains: “Out of the
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Salesforce Fumes as Microsoft Clears Final Hurdle in $26.2B LinkedIn Deal
Editor's note: Microsoft and LinkedIn announced on Dec. 8 that the acquisition has officially closed. Microsoft's pending $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn is expected to close in a matter of days.
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Sprinklr Acquires Little Bird, Episerver Boosts Personalization, More News
Social media management provider Sprinklr last week announced it acquired Little Bird, a Portland, Ore.-based social media company that helps brands analyze connections across the social web to discover top influencers. Little Bird’s platform will enhance New York City-based Sprinklr's audience insights, segmentation, advertising and analytics capabilities.
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Oracle Acquires Dyn to Grow Cloud Computing Platform
Oracle Corp. announced today it signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, the cloud-based internet performance and DNS provider. The news comes one month after Manchester, N.H.-based Dyn reported a major Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that crippled major websites including Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify and even its own.
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So Your Company Was Acquired: Now What?
2015 was a record year for mergers and acquisitions. Dell acquired EMC, Vista Equity Partners acquired Marketo and a host of other mergers and acquisitions were closed, totaling into the billions. This all means a great deal of restructuring, repositioning and in some cases, even rebranding, is about to take place.
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Adobe to Acquire TubeMogul for $540M
Adobe plans to acquire TubeMogul for $540 million — a move that will bring an established video advertising platform to the Adobe Marketing Cloud. San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe already enables video content creation through its Premiere Pro CC in its Adobe Creative Cloud and Primetime solutions.
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BloomReach Acquires Hippo, Aims to Build 'Intelligent' DX Platform
There's big news in the world of content management today as BloomReach, a machine-learning driven e-commerce personalization platform, acquires Hippo, an open-source enterprise content management provider. The deal marries content and commerce in one "open and intelligent digital experience platform," according to BloomReach CEO Raj De Datta, co-founder of the
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How to Approach a Post-Acquisition Enterprise Search Strategy
As a rule, corporate search strategies assume a steady-state situation: the business will grow, it will employ more people and it will introduce new products and services. Rarely do they include a contingency plan, a plan for when the norm is no longer the norm.
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Salesforce Investors Question Marc Benioff's Twitter Infatuation
SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks ago CMSWire asked the obvious: Why the hell would Salesforce want to buy Twitter? Now the company's investors are asking the same thing. In a meeting with investors yesterday following his Dreamforce keynote, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff was forced to defend his
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The C-Suite's Best Defense Against Digital Disruptors
The buzz that surrounded Unilever’s $1 billion buy of the Dollar Shave Club was telling. In many ways the purchase symbolizes the inability of large companies to respond quickly to new sales models and consumer behavior.
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Criteo Acquires E-Commerce Ad Tech Provider HookLogic for $250M
Paris-based advertising and marketing technology provider Criteo plans to acquire an e-commerce advertising platform for $250 million, the company announced today. Criteo's acquisition of New York City-based HookLogic will help Criteo users connect retail e-commerce sites with brands via sponsored product ads, company officials said.
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