acquisition
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Will N-Able Customers Stay Through Acquisition?
Big news in the MSP world today as well-known industry remote monitoring and management (RMM) player, N-Able, announced in a press release, that it is being acquired by SolarWinds for $120M. It would appear, from the press release that SolarWinds is looking to enhance its already robust product line to gain more traction in [...]
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Is Dell Preparing to Take Over the IT Space?
Dell has been making a lot of interesting moves lately and all of its moves point to a big shift in focus for the former hardware company. The latest in a long list of moves is the acquisition of enterprise cloud management company, Enstratius. According to the Enstratius website, they provide a suite of [...]
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Is Dell in Real Trouble? Word on the Street is Dell may go Private
There aren’t too many hardware companies these days that aren’t in some trouble. A change in the industry and in consumers has companies like Dell, HP, and others looking for new ways to reach customers with little success thus far. Dell has been in a buying mode over the last year seeing it pick up [...]
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Cisco is on a Holiday Shopping Spree Buying up another Company
It seems Cisco is in a shopping mood this holiday season as it has picked up another company Cariden Technologies. The Networking giant announced today its plans to acquire the telecommunication network management company through a press release seen below. This is the third acquisition announcement in the better part of two weeks for the [...]
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Cisco Digs Deep into Pockets for Cloud Company Purchase
Cisco has announced its plans to acquire cloud-networking company Meraki for a hefty sum of $1.2B see (press release) below. The fairly new company (started in 2006) currently has around three hundred employees and offers a midmarket WLAN solution that has it competing with companies such as Aruba networks. The cloud seems to be a [...]
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What will happen with Doyenz after Acquisition?
Doyenz, the cloud based backup and disaster recovery company, has been acquired by Persistent Systems. The company, which hit the channel a couple years ago with a completely new solution to virtualize servers in the cloud for server redundancy, had been restructuring and scaling its business back through layoffs. Key management changes last year may [...]
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SoftBank Confirms Acquisition of Sprint for $20.1B
In a document released today by Japanese company SoftBank, it has confirmed the acquisition of Sprint to create a company it is calling New Sprint. The acquisition will provide Softbank with a 70% controlling interest in New Sprint, and will keep the current Sprint CEO Dan Hesse in the top position. The acquisition which will create [...]
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The Circle of Acquisitions 3 of the top 5 U.S Mobile Carriers in Talks
The latest news in possible acquisitions of mobile companies comes from the Japanese mobile carrier Softbank. Softbank is in talks to take a controlling interest in Sprint, which would give them a much-desired break into the U.S market. Sprint, which holds the number three spot amongst U.S carriers, was recently in talks with MetroPCS to [...]
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T-Mobile may acquire MetroPCS is this a good idea?
The number 4 T-Mobile and number 5 MetroPCS mobile carriers in the US are currently in talks about a potential acquisition. Both companies, which have seen struggles in the US market behind Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint may see the potential in combining forces and gaining coverage or market share. T-Mobile has been heavily advertising its [...]
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Still Giving Dell your Money? Are they using it to put you out of Business?
Dell has had a long-time direct strategy, but as of late Dell has been making it known of their Dr. Evil plans for the future. OK, maybe not so menacing as a plot to take over the world, or maybe it is a plot to take over the world; you be the judge. The company [...]
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Apple Acquires Authentec which provides Mobile Security Technology to Major Players for $365M
In a move that has some questioning whether Apple will play nice or not; Authentec Inc. reveled through a public SEC filing that Apple will be acquiring the business for $365M. Authentec previously known for its fingerprint scanning technology seen in many notebooks and laptops has transitioned its business to be a player in mobile [...]
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Nicira Purchase by VMware a Key Move for Future
VMware today announced its $1.2B acquisition of software networking company Nicira, see (press release) below. The move appears to be a solid step in the right direction to help VMware’s future in cloud computing, and to compete at the network level with companies like Cisco. By bringing together the two companies, VMware is able to [...]
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“Thinking Out Cloud” What if Wal-Mart Acquired Best Buy?
As I was pondering, as I sometimes do; I started thinking about the state of the industry, recent acquisitions that have been made by Dell and Microsoft, and the current state of Best Buy. Best buy is struggling and it’s easy to see why. I look at myself as the typical consumer and the fact [...]
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Dell Won’t Take No for an Answer and Acquires Quest Software
Quest Software yesterday announced that it has entered a definitive agreement for Dell to acquire the software company (see press release below). This comes after originally announcing a $2.17B acquisition by private equity company Insight Venture Partners and Vector Capital. The move is a good one for Dell considering the changing hardware landscape. Mobile devices, [...]
