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Salesforce buys Tableau
Salesforce buys Tableau for an amount of $15.7B, in not only its largest M&A deal to date, but probably one of the largest deals ever. After Google only acquired Looker earlier past week, it seems the race for Business Analytics is on.
SaaS giant Salesforce announced that it has signed an agreement with Seattle-based data visualization and analysis platform Tableau for $15.7 billion in stock. Both companies’ boards of directors approved the deal, which “is expected to be completed during Salesforce’s fiscal third quarter […]
Source: Salesforce To Buy Tableau For $15.7B In Its Largest M&A Deal To Date
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Google to Acquire Looker
Google spent $2.6 billion all cash to acquire business intelligence platform Looker.
Google LLC today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence, data applications and embedded analytics, in a $2.6 billion all-cash…
Source: Alphabet : 06.06.2019 Google to Acquire Looker more | MarketScreener
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Leap Motion acquired by Ultrahaptics
The 2010 founded AR and VR company, that was leading in hand tracking devices for VR usage had a few moments that made the tech-headlines. According to many sources, Apple tried to acquire the company twice, with the second attempt as recently as 2018. Past week, the company sold for $30 million.
Today, we’re announcing a strategic deal with Ultrahaptics that combines the two companies and solidifies our collective role as the world’s leading spatial interaction company.
Source: Leap Motion and Ultrahaptics Join Forces – Leap Motion Blog
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LinkedIn Snaps Up Drawbridge
Drawbridge, a company that provides Marketing Tooling to understand customers better, is LinkedIn’s second known acquisition in 8 Months. The volume of the deal is unknown.
LinkedIn snaps up Drawbridge LinkedIn just acquired its 22nd-known company: Drawbridge. The smaller company will integrate with LinkedIn’s marketing services. The move jumps off of LinkedIn’s own growth in providing marketing tooling, according to the company’s blog post. LinkedIn claims that its “Marketing Solutions” business “accelerated” […]
Source: LinkedIn Snaps Up Drawbridge, Its Second Known Acquisition In 8 Months
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HPE buys Supercomputer Maker Cray
On the Hardware end, HP bought Cray Supercomputers. The deal was reported to be valued at $1.4 billion. Cray was famous for it’s supercomputers, out of which several made the Top 500 list.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has agreed to buy U.S. supercomputer maker Cray Inc. in a deal valued at about $1.4 billion as the firm works to become more competitive in high-end computing.
Source: HPE Agrees to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray for $1.4 Billion – Bloomberg
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VMware acquires Bitnami
Bitnami is a name that many may know from packaged applications available on the major cloud marketplaces. The company packages up applications for easier consumption and adoption, and the concept became quite popular. Today, VMWare announced the acquisition of Bitnami for an undisclosed amount of money.
VMware announced today that it’s acquiring Bitnami, the package application company that was a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2013 class. The companies didn’t share the purchase price. With Bitnami, the company can now deliver more than 130 popular software packages in a variety of formats, such as Docker containers or virtual machine, an […]
Source: VMware acquires Bitnami to deliver packaged applications anywhere | TechCrunch