Sales effectiveness cloud SaaS company Callidus Software Inc today announced its acquisition of LeadFormix, a B2B cloud-based lead intelligence SaaS. LeadFormix lets B2B vendors turn anonymous visits to their websites into qualified leads by identifying potential customers and reporting their intent. This solution will join the Callidus multi-tenant SaaS sales performance and effectiveness solutions that help [...]
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Blue Coat, which specializes in Web security and WAN optimization solutions, has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by San Francisco-based PE firm Thoma Bravo in a transaction valued at roughly $1.3 billion. Shareholders stand to receive $25.81 per share per common stock, in cash, and Blue Coat’s board of directors has [...]
Posted on December 10th, 2011 by admin
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Lattice Semiconductor this morning announced that it is to acquire SiliconBlue Technologies, which develops mobile device solutions for the consumer handheld market. Lattice Semi will pay approximately $62 million in cash for SiliconBlue and aims to close the deal before the end of the year. Under the terms of the agreement, SiliconBlue CEO Kapil Shankar [...]
Posted on December 9th, 2011 by admin
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Cisco this morning announced its intent to purchase service fulfillment software assets and associated employees from the UK subsidiary of partner company Comptel, for 21.3 million euros or roughly $31 million in cash. Axioss is a fulfillment solution developed by Axiom Systems, a company that Comptel acquired back in 2008. With the acquisition, Cisco hopes [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2011 by admin
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According to a Bloomberg report, HP is set to buy European infrastructure software company Autonomy for as much as $10 billion. That price would make the acquisition one of HP’s largest deals to date. Autonomy’s enterprise software powers pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by admin
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ANSYS, which offers simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, has agreed to acquire Apache Design Solutions, a simulation software provider for low power solutions in the electronics industry. The purchase price is approximately $310 million in cash. The price includes an estimated $29 million in cash on Apache’s balance sheet. ANSYS [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2011 by admin
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NYSE-listed SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software solutions, has agreed to acquire TriGeo, a privately-held vendor of log and event management software, for $35 million in cash. TriGeo, founded in 2001, offers solutions to IT organizations for the collection of of data from virtually any device on their network and the ability to correlate [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2011 by admin
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Time Warner Cable this morning announced that it will acquire cable systems serving approximately 70,000 basic video subscribers, 42,000 HSD subscribers, and 26,000 phone subscribers in Kentucky and Tennessee from NewWave Communications for $260 million in cash. NewWave had been buying up many of these cable systems, some property acquisitions dating back to 2003. The [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2011 by admin
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Global Telecom & Technology (GTT), a global carrier and network integrator, has acquired privately-held UK company PacketExchange in an effort to scale its business internationally. GTT will pay up to $20 million in cash and assumed debt to buy PacketExchange, which serves approximately 500 customers (carriers, ISPs, etc.). PacketExchange is said to generate over $20 [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2011 by admin
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NVIDIA this morning announced its acquisition of Icera, which provides baseband processors for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets. The acquisition, for $367 million in cash, has been approved by both companies’ boards of directors and is expected to be completed, subject to customary closing conditions, in approximately 30 days. Icera holds more than [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2011 by admin
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