Broadcom re-orgs VMware into four divisions – none of which mention end-user compute products Community programs retained but CEO waves farewell Virtualization23 Nov 2023 | 26
SonicWall swallows Solutions Granted amid cybersecurity demand surge CEO Bob VanKirk makes near-20-year partnership official, teases big things coming to EMEA CSO17 Nov 2023 | 1
Broadcom, VMware insist merger to 'close soon' as China plays hard to get Regulatory red dragon keeping silent with a day left until deadline Virtualization30 Oct 2023 | 4
Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25
Cisco spends $28B on data cruncher Splunk in cybersecurity push $157/share cash deal is the largest acquisition in networking titan's history Security21 Sep 2023 | 5
Microsoft wants Activision so badly, it's handing streaming rights over to ... Ubisoft? All to appease the UK's competition watchdog, the last hurdle to the deal Software22 Aug 2023 | 37
FTC boss Khan shrugs off Microsoft, Meta defeats: 'Losing two is okay' How quick y'all are to forget Nvidia-Arm Personal Tech25 Jul 2023 | 4
Feds want to rewrite rules for competition-crushing merger probes No more embrace-and-extinguish M&As, but budgetary changes may make enforcement harder Legal20 Jul 2023 | 1
UK greenlights Broadcom's $61B VMware takeover Only obstacle left is the FTC, which is still licking its wounds from other recent antitrust defeats Virtualization19 Jul 2023 | 2
FTC pulls emergency brake on Microsoft's marriage to Activision Blizzard Updated Agency concerned the pair are planning to combine before it's able to make a decision whether to allow it Software13 Jun 2023 | 27
Fahrenheit to take over Celsius 0°C×9/5+32 = how much money to thaw frozen crypto accounts? Legal26 May 2023 | 43
Meta forced to sell Giphy, takes 87% loss in Shutterstock deal Zuck and Co face Brexit bonus Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 8
China becomes the 37th country to approve Microsoft's Activision buyout Boss fights with US and UK authorities lie ahead, and Redmond may not have enough power-ups to prevail Legal23 May 2023 | 10
Larry Ellison cleared of forcing Oracle to overpay for NetSuite Billionaire and his financial stake in the deal aren't to blame, says a Delaware judge Software15 May 2023 | 3
Boss fight cleared: Europe approves Microsoft's Activision takeover Completing a tough level doesn't mean squat if you can't defeat UK and USA Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 7
EU still set to OK Microsoft's Activision slurp, UK disagrees We've got four words for you: Insert coin to continue Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 8
UK watchdog blocks Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition That's not very Unicorn Kingdom of you Personal Tech26 Apr 2023 | 69
Europe moves to derail Broadcom's VMware takeover Strangling competition won't fly here, says Brussels Virtualization13 Apr 2023 | 1
Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances' Legal24 Mar 2023 | 6
T-Mobile US buys Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile for $1.35B Video However, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere Personal Tech15 Mar 2023 | 9
SAP's in-and-out burger Qualtrics sold to Silver Lake and Canadian pension funds Someone's still got some cash jangling about after the Silicon Valley Bank mess Spotlight on Databases14 Mar 2023 | 4
Amid the gloom of widespread layoffs, Fujitsu is hiring and acquiring Buys GK Software and intends to put 1,600 new people on staff – some of them oldies Software02 Mar 2023 | 7
This won't hurt a bit: Amazon now a US healthcare provider Updated Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical info Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 36
OpenText completes Micro Focus buy, CEO says bye to 8% of workforce Here's your new desk, phone, security card, and an unpleasant missive for some Software01 Feb 2023 | 4
Fujitsu has a yen for 'large-scale' acquisitions and billions of yen to fund them Digital transformation is still a thing and Japanese giant wants to buy anyone that can do it Software12 Jan 2023 | 7
Video game players sue to frag Microsoft-Activision merger Redmond accused of monopolising a market! How shocking Personal Tech21 Dec 2022 | 9
US Justice Department requests more info from Adobe on $20b Figma buy Antitrust scrutiny into one of the biggest deals for a private software developer Software18 Nov 2022 | 4
Evernote's fall from grace is complete, with sale to Italian app maker Frustrate enough users and your product will stumble. Hint, hint, Elon Applications17 Nov 2022 | 74
Broadcom CEO says hiking VMware prices is not his strategy Commits to containerized Tanzu portfolio too – perhaps heading off chatter it could be sold Virtualization27 Oct 2022 | 6
Inmarsat gets $1b from US Navy for 10 years of satellite data Outsourcing national defence didn't work so well in Ukraine Off-Prem13 Oct 2022 | 3
Westinghouse sale signals arrival of a new nuclear age Energy granddad wants in on the next generation of atomic tech Science12 Oct 2022 | 24
India's Mars Orbiter Mission loses contact, burns all fuel, deemed 'non-recoverable' Mangalyaan orbiter launched for just $74m, lasted a magnificent 16 times longer than expected Science04 Oct 2022 | 41
NetScaler reclaims identity after Citrix, Tibco merge as ‘Cloud Software Group’ Other business units also made full members of group, perhaps hinting and spin-outs Software04 Oct 2022 |
Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023 Even those with older devices will have to sign in if they want to activate new features Personal Tech23 Sep 2022 | 26
Another UK tech company bought out: Schneider Electric grabs rest of Aveva Analysis French industrial conglomerate pays $10.75b, but already owned lion's share of industrial software specialist Software22 Sep 2022 | 15
Private equity suits at Thoma Bravo pull out of Darktrace acquisition 'Enterprise immune system' sees share price slump Security08 Sep 2022 | 7
Musk tries to stall Twitter takeover trial following whistleblower claims And throws a copy of Mudge's allegations to the SEC, too, just in case it hasn't read them yet Personal Tech31 Aug 2022 | 58
EA shares volatile on the back of unconfirmed rumor of Amazon bid Somebody set us up the bomb Personal Tech26 Aug 2022 | 9
Amazon to buy Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b Updated Bezos empire continues to clean up, but did it pick the proper postulates? Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 65
Toshiba shrinks its shortlist of suitors but warns a deal won't happen soon Bain and Japan Industrial Partners among those in the running Legal21 Jul 2022 |
Twitter claims Elon Musk bailed from sale with 'invalid and wrongful' reasons Tesla chief seemingly responds with ... a Chuck Norris meme that shows all the brilliance of the CEO mindset Legal12 Jul 2022 | 55
API rate limits at the core of Elon Musk’s decision to ditch Twitter Claims he got less access to data than paying customers and was forced to endure the indignity of a PDF Software11 Jul 2022 | 65
IBM buys Databand to keep bad data from tainting your AI Upstart promises to tackle that old adage: Garbage in, garbage out AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |
Broadcom takeover deal for VMware faces no rival bids Updated Lack of alternative offers means sale may go ahead with expected completion in fiscal 2023 Virtualization06 Jul 2022 | 11
Zendesk sold to private investors two weeks after saying it would stay public Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds Software27 Jun 2022 | 10
Broadcom sketches out VMware ambitions that stretch from mainframe to cloud Engineers, sales teams told to stick around, customers promised more 'choice' – to buy from Symantec or CA Virtualization23 Jun 2022 | 11
VMware customers fear Broadcom acquisition will stall innovation, increase cost Gartner advises renegotiating subscriptions now to avoid ‘dramatic’ and ‘extraordinary’ price rises Virtualization09 Jun 2022 | 21
Toshiba considering 11 possible futures Management reveals 10 suitors, plus a digital transformation plan to become a software-defined business Software03 Jun 2022 | 1
VMware customers have watched Broadcom's acquisitions and don't like what they see It's not hard to find unpleasant precedents for what might happen to Virtzilla Virtualization31 May 2022 | 39
Broadcom's stated strategy ignores most VMware customers Focuses on 600 users, lets smaller outfits slide, trims R&D spend, slashes sales expenses Virtualization30 May 2022 | 35
Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming Virtualization27 May 2022 | 45
Broadcom to buy VMware 'on Thursday for $60 billion' Think we speak for everyone when we say: Seriously, what the f...? Virtualization24 May 2022 | 23
Broadcom in talks to buy VMware: multiple reports Michael Dell could be the key to any deal Virtualization23 May 2022 | 8
Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled A stunning surprise to no one in this Solar System Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 44
Private equity snaps up datacenter operator Switch for nearly $11b DigitalBridge Group and global infrastructure investor IFM Investors to acquire all outstanding shares On-Prem12 May 2022 |
Intel acquires graphics tech biz founded by ex-AMD, Qualcomm engineers Demoscene-steeped Siru is on not its Second but, what, Third or Fourth Reality, now? Personal Tech03 May 2022 | 5
When companies invest, they invest in software – report Well, it's not like there's any hardware to buy at the moment Software26 Apr 2022 | 2
Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff Pretty cool that all other problems a billionaire could reasonably tackle are solved, leaving this one Personal Tech25 Apr 2022 | 159
AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions I mean, there's still so many, many IT depts to suck up into our cloud PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2022 | 10
Investment firm KKR buys Barracuda Networks Plans to take a bigger bite of the SME security market by swimming towards SASE Security13 Apr 2022 | 3
Intel acquires private 5G network provider Ananki Startup sells software and hardware as a subscription to make private 5G easy Networks12 Apr 2022 | 1
Intel buys cloud-optimization startup Granulate Updated Tech will be touted as a SaaS add-on in Xeon sales pitches, live on as standalone product Software31 Mar 2022 | 1