Category: Spotlight
11 Mar 2014
Blackstone to Acquire Accuvant
Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) today entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Accuvant from current investor Sverica International. Blacstone, which is the world's...
23 Jan 2014
Lenovo to Acquire IBM’s x86 Server Business
Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK:992) announced that they entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IBM's x86 server business for approximately $2 billion in cash...
21 Jan 2014
Best Buy Sells mindSHIFT to Ricoh Company
Ricoh Company, Ltd. (TSE:7752), an office supply and digital imaging company based in Tokyo, announced today that it had entered into an agreement to acquire...
06 Jan 2014
Verint Systems Acquires KANA Software for $514 Million
Verint Systems (NASDAQ:VRNT), a data-analysis and security software maker, announced today that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire KANA Software, a customer...
06 Jan 2014
martinwolf Annual Letter
According to disruptive innovation guru Clayton Christensen, established companies have a hard time inventing new business models when they need to. As a result, game-changing...
20 Dec 2013
Oracle to Acquire Cloud Marketing Provider Responsys, Inc.
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) announced this morning that it was acquiring Responsys, Inc for approximately $1.4 billion.The acquisition price, $27 per share, is a 38% premium...
13 Nov 2013
IBM Acquires Mobile Cloud Vendor Fiberlink
IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire mobile management and security company Fiberlink Communications. Financial terms of...
31 Oct 2013
PwC to Acquire Booz & Company To Expand Consulting Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced yesterday that it will buy Booz & Company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. PwC, based in New York, currently...
28 Oct 2013
NTT Communications Acquires Two Cloud Computing Firms for $880 Million
NTT Communications Corporation announced today that it will acquire two U.S.-based cloud computing firms in separate transactions totaling approximately $880 million (85.5 billion yen)..