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Google Strengthens Imaging Offering With Nik Software Acquisition

Snapseed developer aims to be Google's answer to Facebook's Instagram

12 years ago

Google Readies Motorola Unit Sell-Off

Google is reportedly preparing to offload the set-top box unit from its recently acquired Motorola division

12 years ago

Rackspace Expands Cloud Email With Mailgun Acquisition

Rackspace has boosted its portfolio of cloud-based email services and applications with the acquistion of Mailgun

12 years ago

IBM Pays $1.3bn For HR Software Maker Kenexa

IBM's all-cash deal for Kenexa will allow it to enter the booming human resources software market and reinforce its social-business…

12 years ago

Facebook’s Instagram Buy Approved, Now Worth ‘Only’ $750m

US regulators approve buy, but the value of the deal drops significantly thanks to Facebook's shares dive

12 years ago

Colt Buys ThinkGrid To Sell Cloud To SMEs

Smaller firms will buy cloud services through resellers, says Colt

12 years ago

Cisco Closes £3.2bn Acquisition Of British Firm NDS

Cisco has bolstered its video capabilities after completing the $5 billion (£3.2bn) acquisition of NDS Group

12 years ago

Oracle Makes Data Centre Network Move With Xsigo Buy

Oracle has acquired Xsigo as it seeks to beef up its I/O expertise to cloud-optimised data centres

12 years ago

Apple Buys AuthenTec To Boost Mobile Security

Apple has moved to strengthen the security credentials of the iPhone and iPad with the acquisition of AuthenTec

12 years ago

Oracle Buys US Project Management Specialist Skire

Yet another acquisition boosts the potential of the Oracle Cloud

12 years ago

Oracle Beefs Up Social Networking With Involver Deal

Oracle has made another social networking acquisition, this time purchasing marketing specialist Involver

12 years ago

Quest Software Will Be Dell’s Cornerstone

Quest Software makes huge margins. But that's not why Dell bought it for $2.4 billion, says Chris Preimesberger

12 years ago

Dell Confirms $2.4bn Quest Software Acquisition

Dell confirms it has agreed to buy Quest, as it looks to bolster its growing software division

12 years ago

Digital Realty Trust Buys Three Data Centres In London

London's data centre market continues to prove attractive after Digital Realty announced an acquisition that will give it three new…

12 years ago

Report: Dell Back In Quest Software Hunt With $2.32bn Bid

Dell is back in the bidding for Quest Software, a report claims

12 years ago

Microsoft Buys Social Network Yammer For £763m

Microsoft has confirmed plans to purchase enterprise social networking site Yammer for $1.2 billion

12 years ago

Report: Dell In ‘$2.15bn Bid’ For Quest Software

Dell could be set to make one of its biggest acquisitions to date if sources are right

12 years ago

Citrix Plots Mobile Madness With Bytemobile Buy

Citrix hopes to pester mobile operators for contracts after its Bytemobile deal

12 years ago

Google Preps Microsoft Challenge With Quickoffice Purchase

Google has acquired office productivity applications geared towards the mobile computing sector

12 years ago

Logica To Be Sold To CGI For £1.7bn

Logica, which made 1300 redundancies last year, is set to be sold to a Canadian IT firm

12 years ago

Opera Shares Jump Amidst Facebook Takeover Talk

Facebook is reportedly interested in buying Opera, making the latter that bit more valuable

12 years ago

Report: Dell May Buy Quest Software

Dell is reportedly considering an acquisition of Quest in a move to reduce the company's reliance on PC and server…

12 years ago

Oracle Snaps Up Vitrue For Social Marketing

Oracle is to acquire Vitrue, a cloud-based company that helps companies manage their social marketing campaigns

12 years ago

SAP Acquires Ariba To Improve Cloud Credentials

SAP has boosted its cloud and collaboration portfolio with the acquisition of Ariba for £3.4bn

12 years ago

EMC World: EMC Acquires Cloud Sync Firm Syncplicity

Despite VMware releasing a beta of its own cloud sync product, EMC snaps up Syncplicity

12 years ago

Facebook Instagram Acquisition May Not Be So Instant

Facebook's Instagram acquisition may not close before the end of the second quarter as Zuckerburg had hoped

12 years ago

AppSense Targets BYOD With RAPsphere Acquisition

Appsense has made its first acquisition with the purchase of enterprise BYOD specialist RAPsphere

12 years ago

LinkedIn Splashes $118.75m on SlideShare

LinkedIn splashes the cash again, this time in a bid to bring in some presentation expertise

12 years ago

Cisco Beefs Up Network Analytics With Truviso Purchase

Cisco is to give its customers real-time visibility into the data traffic on their networks with the purchase of Truviso

12 years ago

IBM Snatches TeaLeaf Analytics

IBM buys TeaLeaf for analytics - we dare say it was probably a steal

12 years ago