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Tag: mergers and acquisitions (page 9)
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Tableau Makes 1st Acquisition with Infoactive Buy
Unleash creativity and the world will never be the same. Those words belong to Christian Chabot, CEO of Tableau Software — and likely played some role in Tableau's purchase today of Infoactive, a 3-year-old infographics web app startup based in Montreal.
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Let's Get Social: Sysomos Acquires Expion
Two software companies whose platforms aim to help enterprises make the most out of social media joined forces today. Toronto-based social intelligence provider Sysomos announced it acquired social media marketing platform Expion.
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Make No Mistake: Workfront Invests in Digital Red Ink
Workfront is investing in digital red ink.
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Nintex Acquires Document Generator
Workflow automation vendor Nintex today acquired a document-generation app provider, which it claims will help enterprises automate processes from the back to the front-office, integrate content from business ecosystems and integrate Office 365 and Salesforce content. The Bellevue, Wash. provider acquired Drawloop, an Irvine, Calif.
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Syncplicity Breaks Free of EMC's Shackles
EMC isn’t in the business of buying startups, adding value and then selling them off. But that’s precisely what it seems to have done with Syncplicity, the enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) service it bought in May 2012. Skyview Capital, Syncplicity’s new owner, has a very different business model.
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Verizon Buy Speeds the Fade-Out of AOL
You've probably heard today's big M&A news: Verizon is acquiring AOL. If you're wondering why Verizon is spending $4.4 billion on a major web content provider, consider AOL’s last quarterly earnings report, issued just last Friday. In the quarter ending March 31, AOL Inc. earned $483.
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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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