Switzerland’s Veeam Snapped Up in $5 Billion Private Equity Deal
Insight Partners, a US-based private equity firm, has agreed to buy Swiss data backup specialist Veeam Software for $5 billion (£3.8 billion). The acquisition will see Veeam will become a US company...
View ArticleFireEye Buys Cloudvisory, in Seventh Security Acquisition
FireEye has agreed to buy Dallas, Texas-based security firm Cloudvisory for an undisclosed sum, adding virtualised environment security tools to its portfolio. The deal is NASDAQ-listed FireEye’s...
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Looker Reiterates “Multicloud” Pledge as Google Acquisition Closes
Google Cloud has closed its $2.6 billion acquisition of business intelligence (BI) specialist Looker, the company confirmed today, a day after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) gave the...
View ArticleUK’s Nominet Makes Its First Ever Acquisition, Moves to Reinforce Registry...
Nominet, the British company that runs a protective DNS service as part of the UK Government’s “Active Cyber Defence” programme has made its first acquisition, picking up the US’s CyGlass for an...
View ArticlePanda Security Turns 30; Brand Set for Extinction After WatchGuard Buyout
Spain’s Panda Security, an endpoint protection specialist that turned 30 this year, is being snapped up by the US’s WatchGuard Technologies under a deal agreed today. Bilbao-based Panda Security,...
View ArticleBristol-Based Software Firm Felinesoft Sold to New Market Big Dog
Technology group ClearCourse has agreed to buy Bristol’s Felinesoft this morning: its fifteenth acquisition since launching just 16 months ago. London-based LLP ClearCourse is backed by a private...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 Impact on Tech M&A in 2020: AMD, Micron, Qualys Named as...
COVID-19 has put the brakes on M&A activity in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector, but the lowered company valuations may offer Big Tech and deep-pocketed funds long-term...
View ArticleDefense Sector’s Unique Supply Chain Security Firm Bought Out by PE Fund
Exostar — a cloud-centric company set up by defense giants BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Rolls-Royce to manage highly sensitive supply chains — has been bought by private equity (PE)...
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Undertaking Cyber Security Due Diligence in M&A Transactions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) offer firms significant opportunities to achieve fast-paced growth or gain competitive advantage, writes Anurag Kahol, CTO, Bitglass. The benefits on offer are...
View ArticleMicrosoft Snaps Up CyberX, as Vendor Appetite for OT Offerings Swells
Operational Technology (OT) security remains the flavour of the month in many vendor boardrooms — even if potential industrial customers remain wary of having their systems prodded and poked by IT...
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