Salesforce to buy US cloud firm Heroku
Salesforce is to buy US cloud computing firm Heroku for $249 million, further expanding its business to compete with large companies like Cisco.The deal will see Salesforce hand over $212 million in...
View ArticleCapita buys floundering healthcare software firm iSoft
UK outsourcing firm Capita has bought troubled NHS software firm iSoft Business Solutions, ensuring it can deliver delays and problems to the already struggling British healthcare system.The...
View ArticleImagination to buy Caustic Graphics for $27 million
Imagination Technologies has announced plans to buy Caustic Graphics for $27 million.The all-cash deal will see Caustic's ray-tracing graphics technology incorporated into Imagination's graphics...
View ArticleEU approves NSN Motorola buyout
The European Union has approved the purchase of Motorola's network equipment business by Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).Nokia Siemens announced the planned acquisition as early as July 2010, with...
View ArticleAtos Origin to focus on cloud computing with Siemens SIS buy
Siemens and Atos Origin are giving IBM something to be concerned about. The pair are getting cosy to create a European IT services company in a deal worth £720 million. Under the terms of the deal Atos...
View ArticleRackspace buys Cloudkick
Cloud computing firm Rackspace has today announced the acquisition of Cloudkick, a company that develops cloud server monitoring and management tools.Rackspace currently has around 64,000 servers and...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch's BSkyB buy gets green light from EC
News Corp, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch, has won approval by the European Commission to take over British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) further expanding Murdoch's unholy media empire.The...
View ArticleMotorola Mobility buys cloud and synch firm Zecter
Motorola Mobility has bought cloud computing and synchronisation firm Zecter in efforts to bring cloud and synch technologies into its mobile devices.Zecter has two main products, ZumoDrive and...
View ArticleZynga buys social browser Flock, Skype buys mobile video firm Qik
Social game developer Zynga, best known for turning millions of office workers into virtual farmers, has bought Flock, a social web browser firm.Flock was founded in 2005, but it was only with a major...
View ArticleAmazon buys Lovefilm
Amazon confirmed today that it is to buy out the remainder of UK-based film and game rental service Lovefilm.The company already owns 42 percent of Lovefilm, which is bought in 2008, but it will now...
View ArticleACFV buys Answers.com for $127 million
AFCV Holdings is to buy Answers.com for $127 million.The deal will see AFCV, a subsidiary of Summit Partners, hand over $10.50 in cash per share, a premium of around 33 percent on the closing price of...
View ArticleTraffic obsessed Armstrong brings Huff Post to AWOL
The AOL has bought the Huffington Post, one of America's best papers that isn't afraid to kick dirt in the eye of the exaggerated Fox News network. Tim Armstrong, CEO at AOL, is pushing aggressive...
View ArticleCambridge's CSR buys Zoran
CSR has signed on the dotted line to buy Zoran Corporation, a move that will allow the British chipmaker to add imaging and video to its wifi, bluetooth and location technology offerings. The deal with...
View ArticleMan who can wants to buy Mentor Graphics
Billionaire Carl Icahn has offered to pay $1.91 billion to buy Mentor Graphics.He's been nibbling away at the company for quite some time now.Mentor Graphics is a semiconductor tool company and...
View ArticleGoogle buys German insecurity outfit Zynamics
Google seems to be keeping its eye on security, with the news that the company has splashed its cash on Zynamics. The German security company was set up by security expert Thomas Dullien, or "Halvar...
View ArticleTeradata buys Aster Data for $263 million
Data warehousing company Teradata has managed to sign a definitive agreement to buy out Aster Data Systems, which specialises in analytics and data management. Teradata believes it is the leader in...
View ArticleWestern Digital buys Hitachi Global Storage
Storage firm Western Digital is certain to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - wholly owned Hitachi subsidiary - for $4.3 billion. The deal will see a cash and stock transaction. Hitachi GST will...
View ArticleIntel expands McAfee with Sentrigo buy
Chipzilla has expanded its brand new McAfee subsidiary by acquiring Sentrigo, which provides database insecurity and compliance software. Intel has had the keys to the McAfee office for just a month...
View ArticleIntel gets in the Kno
Student tablet start-up Kno is about to get $30 million from Chipzilla. Intel will take over the hardware design business of Kno, which will now focus on its software for its college market toys....
View ArticleAcer gets cloudy with iGware buy
Acer is splashing its cash on a US-based cloud company called iGware. The Taiwanese manufacturer is shelling out $320 million for iGware, plus another $75 million for its “performance-based earn-out”....
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