Pandora-powered channels will come to SiriusXM’s app this year

SiriusXM this week offered a few more details on how it plans to leverage its newest asset, Pandora, following its $3.5 billion acquisition of the streaming music service last year, which officially closes on Friday. At the time of the deal, the company spoke about the potential for cross-promotion opportunities between the services and new […]

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Microsoft’s $7.5BN GitHub buy gets green-lit by EU regulators

Microsoft’s planned acquisition of Git-based code sharing and collaboration service, GitHub, has been given an unconditional greenlight from European Union regulators. The software giant announced its intention to bag GitHub back in June, saying it would shell out $7.5 billion in stock to do so. At the time it also pledged: “GitHub will retain its […]

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Cloudera and Hortonworks announce $5.2 billion merger

Over the years, Hadoop, the once high-flying open source platform, gave rise to many companies and an ecosystem of vendors emerged. It was long believed that some major companies would emerge from the pack and sure enough Hortonworks went public in 2014. Cloudera followed three years later, but the market slowed down and the two […]

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Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire Mulesoft and the stock is going nuts

After previously investing in Mulesoft, it looks like Salesforce may finish off the deal and is in advanced talks to acquire the data management software provider altogether, according to a report from Reuters this morning. Mulesoft works with companies to bring together different sources of data like varying APIs. That’s important for companies that have data […]

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Qualcomm just killed the world’s biggest tech deal ever

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Qualcomm has officially rejected Broadcom’s $105 billion acquisition offer — an offer so huge it was set to become the world’s largest tech deal.

The San Diego-based chipmaker announced on Monday that it was passing on the acquisition, which Broadcom actually valued at $130 billion taking Qualcomm’s $25 billion debt into account. 

Why? Well, for the simple reason Qualcomm believes it’s worth more money.

The company creates key wireless technology like modems and processors for popular smartphones like the iPhone. And though Qualcomm is in the midst of a legal dispute with Apple, the company still believes its overall value is higher than what Broadcom was offering.  Read more…

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When chips collide: Broadcom bids $105 billion for Qualcomm in largest tech deal ever

It’s an interesting time for the guts of your smartphone: Two of the companies who build big chunks of the devices we use every day may be joining forces.
Broadcom, which builds Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and wireless charging tech (among other things), just …

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