Electronic payment solutions provider VeriFone Systems this morning announced it has acquired the assets of WAY Systems, a provider of mobile POS solutions and gateway services for mobile merchants.
The purchase price consisted of an upfront payment of $6 million and an earn-out payable in one year of up to an additional $3 million dollars [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
In the wake of former CEO Mark Herd’s sexual harassement scandal, HP is announcing that it is acquiring Fortify, a software security company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Fortify’s Software Security Assurance products and services protect companies from security threats in busines software applications. The company’s software evaluates and test software code for [...]
Posted on August 18th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
IBM has acquired Datacap, a company that provides a data and document capturing and processing software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Datacap software automates image and data entry from a variety of documents and forms, including medical claims, tax returns and highly variable documents such as invoices and shipping documents for more precise [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Cloud infrastructure company Joyent has acquired Vancouver-based Layerboom Systems, a startup that provides a software to hosting companies that allows them to build and sell virtual private server clouds. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to a release, the acquisition will allow Joyent to offer expanded cloud infrastructure services to customers by adding [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Accenture, global management and technology consulting firm, has announced the aquisition of Acceria, a company that specializes in providing business processes and methodologies dedicated to the after-sales operations of industrial companies. The companies did not disclose the terms of the agreement.
The acquisition includes Acceria's employees and assets which provide innovative business solutions intended to [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Security software company GFI Software this morning announced that it has acquired Sunbelt Software, and specifically its VIPRE product suite.
GFI says the deal will give them access to Sunbelt’s VIPRE technology, which it intends to merge into its own email security and web security solutions group. Terms of the acquisition remained undisclosed.
The assets of [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Internet security company Webroot today announced it has acquired BrightCloud, a Web content classification and security services provider. Webroot aims to integrate BrightCloud’s technology with its own proprietary malware detection and security-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the BrightCloud team will join Webroot’s Cloud Engineering team with an expanded focus on [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Enterprise software giant EMC has acquired data warehousing company Greenplum Software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition is an all-cash transaction.
Greenplum, which has raised $61 million in funding, develops database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. Greenplum has a number of high profile investors, including Sun Microsystems [...]
Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
IBM is making another acquisition today, buying up computer security software company BigFix. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
BigFix security software identifies all of a company’s PCs, laptops, server and then monitors and flags IT administrators when devices are not in compliance with corporate IT security standards. Its software promises to make security [...]
Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Elsevier, a juggernaut of a global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of assets from Collexis, a developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software.
The acquisition is effective immediately and terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.
According to Elsevier, the combination of Collexis’ semantic technology [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
