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Tag: acquisitions (page 5)
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Ars Logica Picks WCM Leaders, Act-On Names New CEO, More News
Catch up on customer experience software news in this wrap up. In this edition: web content management leaders, Taplytics release and more
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Cisco Acquires BroadSoft for $1.9 Billion
Cisco announced today a $1.9 billion acquisition of Broadsoft.
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Lithium Technologies Acquires Jive Software's External Community Business
It didn't take long for ESW Capital to break up Jive Software. ESW Capital announced plans to sell Jive's external community business, Jive-x, to Lithium Technologies just shy of four months after the private equity firm acquired Jive, company officials announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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M-Files Boosts AI Chops With Apprento Buy
M-Files added a little more artificial intelligence to its "intelligent" information management platform last week with the acquisition of machine learning and natural language processing solutions provider Apprento. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
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Huddle Reportedly Acquired by Private Equity Firm for $89M
Huddle, an 11-year-old enterprise collaboration software provider, will be acquired by private equity firm Turn/River Capital for $89 million, according to industry reports. That sum is far less than London-based Huddle's reported peak valuation of up to $300M when it snagged a $51 million Series D funding round in 2014. And it marks yet another private equity buyout
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Tableau Acquires ClearGraph to Raise Augmented Intelligence Play
Tableau, a Seattle-based business intelligence and analytics provider, announced this morning that it has acquired ClearGraph. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., ClearGraph provides smart data discovery and data analysis natural language query solutions. The purchase price has not been disclosed.
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Crownpeak Acquires Evidon to Boost Digital Quality Management
Crownpeak acquired digital governance solution provider Evidon yesterday, adding consent and monitoring solutions to help companies comply with privacy laws. For digital experience management solution provider Crownpeak, it's just the latest addition to its Digital Quality Management (DQM) solution. The acquisition of New York City-based Evidon builds on Crownpeak's April 2016 acquisition of DQM provider ActiveStandards.
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What's Behind Medium's Talkshow Acquisition
When Medium acquired Talkshow Industries last week it left some unanswered questions. Talkshow is a social messaging app that closed its doors in December 2016 after founder Michael Sippey insisted he, “[doesn’t] see it getting big enough to have the impact we had hoped for.
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Sizmek Buys Rocket Fuel for $145 Million
Sizmek acquired fellow marketing and advertising technology provider Rocket Fuel for $145 million today, well shy of the Redwood City, Calif.-based company's peak valuation of $2 billion. Rocket Fuel now joins Sizmek in the ranks of formerly publicly-traded companies.
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Zeta Global Acquires MarTech Provider Boomtrain
Zeta Global, a New York City-based multichannel marketing campaign management solution provider, announced today its acquisition of machine learning-driven MarTech provider Boomtrain. Zeta Global received funding three months ago to help make this acquisition. In April, Zeta Global earned its largest funding round to date: $115 million in equity capital
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Is Amazon About to Buy Slack?
Amazon has reportedly approached enterprise darling Slack about a potential takeover, according to recent reports. Bloomberg financial news service reported the rumor based on "people with knowledge of the situation," but stated an agreement isn’t assured and discussions may not go any further. Both Seattle-based Amazon and San Francisco-based Slack refused
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Verizon Closes Yahoo Deal, Announces Layoffs
Verizon closed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s core business this week and with it came Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's resignation and news of layoffs. Reuters news agency reported Verizon will slash at least 2,000 jobs as it integrates Yahoo into AOL, which Verizon bought two years ago.
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Vista Equity Partners Continues MarTech Buying Spree, More News
Vista Equity Partners is showing no signs of slowing down its MarTech acquisitions. The San Francisco-based private equity firm acquired social media management and online community provider Lithium Technologies last week, only a few days after acquiring sales performance management provider Xactly in a deal worth $564 million. The acquisitions follow
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IBM Acquires XCC Digital Work Hub to Strengthen IBM Connections
IBM today completed an acquisition to strengthen its IBM Connections enterprise collaboration offerings. Armonk, NY-based IBM acquired the XCC technology from its partner, Cologne, Germany-based TIMETOACT GROUP. XCC is a digital workplace hub that IBM officials said will create a "single destination" personalized homepage for employees.
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