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. Instagram is a photo service in a sea of other photo…

  • 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. Guardicore’s zero-trust solutions brought it to the attention of the CDN. Source: ZDNet

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Acquisition Day

    CallRail Acquires PhoneWagon Atos acquires Cryptovision Stripe acquires Bouncer

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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. Microsoft…

  • Crownpeak Acquires Digital Experience Platform Provider e-Spirit

    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

  • ProProfs 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