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Tag: mergers and acquisitions (page 8)
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Is Salesforce For Sale?
Did you hear the one about Salesforce.com selling itself to a competitor? It's not a joke, at least according to news reports that sent shock waves through the technology world Wednesday.
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Does Lexmark Have What it Takes to Be an 800 Pound Gorilla?
Where does an 800 pound gorilla sit? Anywhere it wants. And in the case of Lexmark, it wants to sit in the enterprise software space.
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Marc Benioff Shops Again, Buys Mobile Security Startup
Maybe Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s corporate shoppers were ducking in-and-out of SXSW sessions last month looking for smart acquisitions. If so, then they not only learned How to Rob a Bank, but also spotted a genius buy in Toopher.
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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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Lexmark Steps Up Its Play to Organize Your Office With Kofax Buy
Lexmark wants to get deeper into the lucrative enterprise content management (ECM) space so, last night, it announced a merger with Kofax. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Lexmark will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Kofax for $11 a share in cash for a total enterprise
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Apple Buys FoundationDB, Shuts Down Access to Code
We think it’s a done deal. All signals suggest that Apple has bought flexible, fast database maker FoundationDB. TechCrunch first reported the news. The company’s community site states: “Thank you for your support of FoundationDB over the last five years.
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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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Kofax Focuses on Customer Communication with $19.5M Buy
Kofax, an Irvine, Calif.-based financial technology company, just spent $19.5 million to acquire Aia, a customer communications management vendor based in The Netherlands. Kofax will integrate Aia’s software into its TotalAgility platform. It will also continue to offer the product on a standalone basis.
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HP Admits Defeat, Acquires Competitor Aruba Networks
HP today announced its intention to purchase Aruba Networks, its key competitor in the emerging field of wireless network manageability for smaller businesses, in an all-cash transaction deal valued at $3 billion in equity.
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Google Acquires Facebook Marketing Firm Toro
Google is back on the acquisition trail. Late last night it announced it had bought Toro, a startup that enables developers to market their apps on Facebook.
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Marketers Hold the Secret to M&A Success
2015 is set to be a record-breaking year in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). But how many of those deals will actually be successful? Depending on the research you choose to believe, between 50 percent and 90 percent of mergers result in failure.
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2015 M&A Surges, Set to Break 2014 Records
It's fitting that 451 Research released a study on merger and acquisitions (M&A) on the same day CMSWire shared the news of yet another tech industry merger. The new research shows that M&A will continue this year — even faster and more furious than in record-setting 2014.
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Fractal Analytics Buys Mobius Innovations From an Old Friend
Continuing its quest for hyper-personalized marketing tools, Fractal Analytics announced today it bought Mobius Innovations to better understand the thinking of mobile customers. The acquisition reflects a deal between two former partners: Fractal CEO Srikanth Velemakanni and Mobius CEO Nirmal Palaparthi. The two men co-founded Fractal 14 years ago.
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OpenText Acquires IGC
Enterprise information management (EIM) provider OpenText deepened its relationship with a longtime partner today by acquiring Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC). The buy is intended to strengthen the OpenText platform by providing what the OpenText CEO calls "secure access to content on any device on any browser.
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