M&A activity was brisk in the enterprise market this year, with 10 high-profile deals totaling almost $88 billion. Companies were opening up their wallets and pouring money into mega acquisitions. It’s worth noting that the $88 billion figure doesn’t include Dell paying investors more than $23 billion for VMware tracking stock to take the company […]
View More These 10 enterprise M&A deals totaled over $87 billion this yearCategory: M&A
Cisco to acquire silicon photonics chip maker Luxtera for $660 million
As networks get put under increasing pressure from ever-growing amounts of data, network equipment manufacturers are facing huge challenges to increase data transmissions speeds over further distances. As a premiere networking equipment company, Cisco wants to be prepared to meet that demand. Today, it opened up its checkbook and announced its intent to acquire Luxtera […]
View More Cisco to acquire silicon photonics chip maker Luxtera for $660 millionMoonbug nabs $145M to buy up kids’ digital media brands
The entertainment business was founded by former Disney and Paramount executives.
View More Moonbug nabs $145M to buy up kids’ digital media brandsSovrn acquires VigLink to expand its publisher monetization platform
Sovrn recently raised a $25 million in new funding with the goal of expanding beyond the adtech business through acquisitions. Now it’s announcing the first of those deals: It’s acquiring affiliate marketing company VigLink. Sovrn first launched in 2014 — made up, as CEO Walter Knapp put it, from “bits and pieces of different companies.” […]
View More Sovrn acquires VigLink to expand its publisher monetization platformTrello acquires Butler to add power of automation
Trello, the organizational tool owned by Atlassian, announced an acquisition of its very own this morning when it bought Butler for an undisclosed amount. What Butler brings to Trello is the power of automation, stringing together a bunch of commands to make something complex happen automatically. As Trello’s Michael Pryor pointed out in a blog […]
View More Trello acquires Butler to add power of automationEssential acquires email startup CloudMagic
Andy Rubin’s Essential has acquired CloudMagic, makers of the Newton email app, for an undisclosed sum. The news, first reported this morning, has since been confirmed by TechCrunch. An Essential spokesperson offered the following admittedly open-ended statement, “We are always on the lookout for companies with great technology and talent to help accelerate our product […]
View More Essential acquires email startup CloudMagicIBM selling Lotus Notes/Domino business to HCL for $1.8B
IBM announced last night that it is selling the final components from its 1995 acquisition of Lotus to Indian firm HCL for $1.8 billion. IBM paid $3.5 billion for Lotus back in the day. The big pieces here are Lotus Notes, Domino and Portal. These were a big part of IBM’s enterprise business for a long […]
View More IBM selling Lotus Notes/Domino business to HCL for $1.8BLanguage learning app Babbel sold 1M US subscriptions this year, moves into language travel
In the world of online language learning, there are basically two heavyweights: Duolingo and Babbel. Duolingo is betting on a freemium model and a strong focus on using algorithms to help you learn better, while Berlin-based Babbel is a paid service that employs hundreds of teachers. As Babbel co-founder and CEO Markus Witte announced at […]
View More Language learning app Babbel sold 1M US subscriptions this year, moves into language travelAutodesk agrees to buy PlanGrid for $875 million
Autodesk announced plans to acquire PlanGrid, a San Francisco startup that helped moved blueprints from paper to the iPad when it launched in 2011. This digitization of construction fits with Autodesk’s vision of digitizing design in general and CEO Andrew Anagnost certainly recognized the transformational potential of the company he was buying. “There is a […]
View More Autodesk agrees to buy PlanGrid for $875 millioniHeartMedia to acquire radio adtech company Jelli
Radio giant iHeartMedia announced today that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Jelli, a company bringing programmatic ad-buying to radio broadcasters. In fact, iHeartMedia was already working with Jelli to allow businesses to use programmatic tools to buy advertising on the company’s 850 broadcast radio stations. iHeartMedia also invested in Jelli’s most recent funding round. […]
View More iHeartMedia to acquire radio adtech company JelliMicrosoft acquires FSLogix to enhance Office 365 virtual desktop experience
Back in September, Microsoft announced a virtual desktop solution that lets customers run Office 365 and Windows 10 in the cloud. They mentioned several partners in the announcement who were working on solutions with them. One of those was FSLogix, a Georgia virtual desktop startup. Today, Microsoft announced it has acquired FSLogix. It did not […]
View More Microsoft acquires FSLogix to enhance Office 365 virtual desktop experienceAnalysts weighing in on $8B SAP-Qualtrics deal don’t see a game changer
SAP CEO Bill McDermott was jacked up today about his company’s $8 billion Qualtrics acquisition over the weekend. You would expect no less for such a big deal. McDermott believes the data Qualtrics provides could bridge the gap between his company’s operational data and customer, data wherever that resides. The idea behind Qualtrics is to […]
View More Analysts weighing in on $8B SAP-Qualtrics deal don’t see a game changer