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Square to acquire Afterpay for approximately AUD$40 billion

Square to acquire Australian buy now, pay later firm Afterpay in a $29bn deal aimed at delivering more compelling financial products and services.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Tue, 3rd Aug 2021

Customer Relationship Management

Qualtrics acquires conversational analytics company Clarabridge for $1.125 billion

Qualtrics is set to acquire Clarabridge, a company specialising in omnichannel conversational analytics, in a $1.125 billion stock transaction.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 2nd Aug 2021

SAP

SNP acquires SAP data specialist Datavard

SNP SE acquires software and consulting company Datavard AG to strengthen its platform strategy in data transformation and management.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Mon, 2nd Aug 2021

Dicker Data

SOLD: Dicker Data snaps up Exeed in landmark $68M deal

Dicker Data's $68 million acquisition of Exceed will make it the second largest IT distributor in NZ, with estimated revenue of over $500m.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Sat, 31st Jul 2021

Firewalls

Video: 10 Minute IT Jams - Who is Fastly?

Fastly's area vice president Derek Rast and technical evangelist for APAC Stephen Gillies discuss Fastly's offerings and the need for modern security solutions.

By Nick Forrester • 6 min read • Fri, 30th Jul 2021

Open source

BigCommerce makes first acquisition since going public

BigCommerce intends to leverage Feedonomics to expand the number of global marketplace and advertising channels for merchants.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 29th Jul 2021

Alfresco

Interview: The master plan behind Hyland's Nuxeo & Alfresco acquisitions

Enterprise content management (ECM) and content services provider Hyland thrives on grabbing the right opportunities for its evolution.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Jul 2021

Artificial Intelligence

Veritone acquires AI hiring company PandoLogic

Veritone, the creator of an AI operating system, announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire PandoLogic.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Jul 2021

Marketing Technologies

Bayesian optimisation: What it is, and how it can improve modelling

Originally used to break free from the grid, Bayesian optimisation efficiently uncovers the global maxima of a black-box function in a defined parameter space.

By SigOpt • 5 min read • Tue, 27th Jul 2021

Network Infrastructure

Hawaiki Submarine Cable sold to maritime infrastructure provider BW Digital

Hawaiki Submarine Cable, the organization behind the trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman Hawaiki cable, has been sold to BW Digital.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Tue, 27th Jul 2021

DevOps

The importance of data masking and testing in an evolving organisational landscape

To guarantee systems are operating as they should, organisations must invest in system testing and data masking — without compromising security.

By Brent Paterson • 3 min read • Mon, 26th Jul 2021

Firewalls

Sophos to boost adaptive cybersecurity ecosystem with network detection and response

Sophos acquires Braintrace, enhancing its cybersecurity ecosystem with proprietary Network Detection and Response technology.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Mon, 26th Jul 2021

DevOps

Sysdig eyes up DevOps security capabilities through Apolicy acquisition

Sysdig plans to enhance its DevOps capabilities by acquiring cloud-native app development firm Apolicy for an undisclosed sum.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Mon, 26th Jul 2021

Customer Relationship Management

Salesforce announces the acquisition of Slack

Salesforce acquires Slack, creating a powerful alliance to deliver the next generation of digital apps and workflows for business.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 2 min read • Thu, 22nd Jul 2021

Threat intelligence

Rapid7 acquires IntSights, develops contextualised threat intelligence

Rapid7 has acquired IntSights Cyber Intelligence for approximately $335 million, enhancing its threat intelligence capabilities.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Wed, 21st Jul 2021

Unified Communications

Why graph data platforms are crucial to telco success

Graph data platforms provide telcos with performance boosts and agility benefits over relational databases, enabling new levels of performance and insight.

By Peter Philipp • 4 min read • Wed, 21st Jul 2021

Malware

Imprivata extends PAM capabilities with Xton acquisition

Imprivata acquires Xton Technologies, enhancing its digital identity solutions with privileged access management capabilities.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Tue, 20th Jul 2021

Customer Relationship Management

Zoom moves into contact centre market, acquiring Five9 in $14.7 billion stock transaction

Zoom has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the cloud contact centre Five9 in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.7 billion.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Tue, 20th Jul 2021