Tag: Acquisitions

June 10, 2019

Salesforce.com Inc. agreed to buy Tableau Software Inc. in an all-stock deal valued at $15.3 billion in a major bid to build its analytics offering. The takeover of Tableau will be Salesforce’s largest deal to date, according to data compiled […]

May 15, 2019

Cortex Group, the holding company of Cape Town based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Cortex Logic, announced earlier this week that it will acquire Tesla Water’s water quality monitoring solution. In a statement earlier this week, Cortex Logic — which in […]

January 14, 2019

Newmont Mining will buy rival Goldcorp in a deal valued at $10 billion, creating the world’s largest gold miner and cementing a return of M&A to the industry. The transaction comes just three months after Barrick Gold’s move to buy […]

November 16, 2018

The rumors, it seems, were true — BlackBerry is acquiring cybersecurity startup Cylance in an all-cash deal worth $1.4 billion. Founded in 2012 by CEO Stuart McClure — an entrepreneur who sold a previous cybersecurity firm to McAfee for $86 […]

November 12, 2018

All companies with professional investors are always for sale. That’s doubly true once they file to list their shares publicly. The world can see all their secrets, and they market themselves heavily to prospective new investors. It’s the perfect time […]

October 18, 2018

Entrepreneurs may not want to think of their companies as “products,” but the truth is, the vast majority of successful startups end in acquisitions. In 2017, mergers and acquisitions accounted for 93 percent of the 809 venture capital-backed exits, yielding […]

October 11, 2018

Apple and Dialog have sealed a complex deal worth $600 million that includes licensing the chip maker’s power-management technology, hiring 300 of its employees, and a long-term purchasing agreement. In a press release this morning, Dialog confirmed terms of the […]

July 23, 2018

Personal branding as a concept is yet to shatter search records. In other words, it’s never really been a trend or area of elevated interest. In fact, even the magazine that introduced the term, Fast Company, expressed doubts over personal […]

July 9, 2018

Uber and Lyft are reportedly interested in acquiring Skedaddle, the crowdsourced bus startup, according to TechCrunch. Skedaddle, which was founded in 2015, enables individuals to charter private bus rides for long distances, generally for events like music festivals, via a […]

April 20, 2018

E-commerce titan Alibaba Group Holding has bought a Chinese microchip maker to further its cloud-based “internet of things” (IoT) business, underscoring its commitment to the chip industry, an Alibaba spokeswoman said on Friday. The announcement comes days after the United […]