August 24, 2020
Palo Alto Networks to buy digital forensics consulting firm for $265M
It’s been quite a day in the tech world, with a bushel of S-1s being filed to go public. Not to be left out, the ever acquisitive Palo…
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August 20, 2020
Report: Apple quietly acquired Israel’s Camerai, formerly Tipit, a specialist in AR and camera tech
Apple is well known for picking up smaller startups on the hush-hush to augment its business, and today news leaked out about the latest of these… nearly two…
Read articleAugust 19, 2020
Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?
By now you’ve probably heard that under pressure from the current administration, TikTok owner ByteDance is putting the viral video service up for sale, and surprisingly a couple…
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A pandemic and recession won’t stop Atlassian’s SaaS push
No company is completely insulated from the macroeconomic fallout of COVID-19, but we are seeing some companies fare better than others, especially those providing ways to collaborate online.…
Read articleAugust 13, 2020
Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes
Mirantis, the company that recently bought Docker’s enterprise business, today announced that it has acquired Lens, a desktop application that the team describes as a Kubernetes-integrated development environment.…
Read articleAugust 11, 2020
Scribd acquires presentation-sharing service SlideShare from LinkedIn
SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price. According to LinkedIn, Scribd will take over operation of the SlideShare…
Read articleAugust 11, 2020
How Moovit went from opportunity to a $900M exit in 8 years
Omar Téllez Contributor Share on Twitter Omar Téllez is a private investor in several tech companies based in LatAm and Silicon Valley. A member of Niantic’s executive team,…
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Harness makes first acquisition, snagging open-source CI company Drone.io
Harness has made a name for itself creating tools like continuous delivery (CD) for software engineers to give them the kind of power that has been traditionally reserved…
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Cisco acquires Modcam to make Meraki smart camera portfolio even smarter
As the Internet of Things proliferates, security cameras are getting smarter. Today, these devices have machine learning capability that helps the camera automatically identify what it’s looking at…
Read articleJuly 30, 2020
Atlassian acquires asset management company Mindville
Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Mindville, a Jira-centric enterprise asset management firm based in Sweden. Mindville’s more than 1,700 customers include the likes of NASA, Spotify…
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