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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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Workfront is investing in digital red ink.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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, 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 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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