Tag: acquisition

On this day, 10 years ago, Facebook acquires Instagram

We all remember how Facebook acquired Instagram for a whole billion of Dollars. An incredible amount for a Internet Service at the time it happened. Of course the event was debated controversial. Still, it is one of the biggest success stories of Big Tech.

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Instagram is a photo service in a sea of other photo services. Photography has been around on the web in meaningful ways for a long time. Flickr lost out to Facebook in the community stakes, and Instagram is doing great in whatever-the-fuck market it’s in (the share-to-my-twitter-followers market?), but this is not Google acquiring YouTube.
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Hacker News Summary of the Facebook acquisition of Instagram.

Well, here we are. Ten years later, in 2022. That didn’t age well.

— via Facebook acquires Instagram

April 9, 2022
Akamai acquires Guardicore

Akamai is still pushing it’s cybersecurity capabilities. Today the company acquired Israel based cybersecurity firm Guardicore for $600 million, reports ZDNet.

ZDNet

Guardicore’s zero-trust solutions brought it to the attention of the CDN.

Source: ZDNet

September 29, 2021
appfleet joins Cloudflare

appfleet is a Poland based company that develops and offers edge hosting of containerised apps. Edge computing is a trend that emerged a few years back and allows to bring applications closer to the end user, therefore reducing latency and improving user experience. Cloudflare, a player strong in this space, now acquired appfleet, augmenting it’s portfolio of workers with container capabilities. No details of the deal have been made public, however, we will see more of these type of acquisitions with the market starting to consolidate.

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Summary: Due to a great synergy between our products, I am happy to announce that Cloudflare and appfleet are joining forces! The appfleet platform is shutting down, with all clusters going offline on October 31st 2021. Long story: When we started working on appfleet our goal was to build an
from the article

Source: appfleet joins Cloudflare

August 11, 2021
Snap acquires WaveOptics

Snap acquires AR display supplier behind its new Spectacles for $500 million

Source: Snap acquires AR display supplier behind its new Spectacles for $500 million – Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech

May 21, 2021
Acquisition Day

CallRail Acquires PhoneWagon

Atos acquires Cryptovision

Stripe acquires Bouncer

May 16, 2021
Snyk Acquires FossID

FossID is a software composition analysis tool that scans code for open source licenses and vulnerabilities. It is the third acquisition by Snyk in the past 6 months.

FossID, a software composition analysis tool that scans code for open source licenses and vulnerabilities

Source: Snyk Acquires FossID to Accelerate Worldwide Developer-First Security Adoption | Snyk

May 14, 2021
DataRobot announces Zepl acquisition

Zepl offers a data science and big data platform. The company was founded in 2014 to build a Jupyter like experience, with added collaboration capabilities. Today TechCrunch reports it’s acquisition by Boston-based DataRobot.

DataRobot, the Boston-based automated machine learning startup, had a bushel of announcements this morning as it expanded its platform to give technical and nontechnical users alike something new. It also announced it has acquired Zepl, giving it an advanced development environment where data scientists can bring their own code to DataRobot. The two companies did […]

Source: DataRobot expands platform and announces Zepl acquisition | TechCrunch

May 11, 2021
Microsoft reportedly wants to buy Discord for more than $10B

BAM: After Salesforce bought Slack in a monster $27B mega-deal only in December of past year, today news have that Microsoft reportedly wants to buy Discord for more than $10B. The market for cooperation and chat solutions is in heavy motion. The Discord solution will compete with Microsoft’s home grown Teams to some extent.

Satya Nadella

Microsoft is out for shopping again and this time it wants to buy Discord, the communication platform for gamers. This morning, Bloomberg reported that the tech giant wants to acquire the app for more than $10 billion — a hefty sum. In December, Discord raised $100 million at a $7 billion valuation, so it wouldn’t be surprising […]
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Source: The Next Web

March 23, 2021
Crownpeak Acquires Digital Experience Platform Provider e-Spirit

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Denver, US based Crownpeak Acquires Digital Experience Platform and CMS Software provider e-Spirit. The company was formerly owned by German IT Company Adesso.

Source: PRNewswire

March 22, 2021
ProProfs Acquires Picreel

ProPofs acquires Picreel

Picreel adds exit popups, overlays, and other onsite marketing features to ProProfs customer software suite. ProProfs , a leading provider of SaaS products , announced today that it has acquired Picreel , a leading conversion optimization software.
From the MarTech.com article

Source: ProProfs Acquires Picreel Conversion Optimization Software

March 22, 2021