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Cloud Security Considerations to Watch Out for During Mergers and Acquisitions

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Staying vigilant through each phase of a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) process can help businesses overcome cloud threats. Threat actors have hit victims during M&As in the past, such as the data breach that affected more than 500 million customers in 2018. Such cases force businesses to look into data exposure before and after M&As, […]

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HelpSystems Acquires Digital Defense to Enhance Cybersecurity Portfolio

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New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs

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Two months ago, Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs launched into general availability and announced a $9.15 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from GV. Today, the company is announcing its acquisition by New Relic, the publicly traded monitoring and observability platform. The Pixie Labs brand and product will remain in place […] Continue reading New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs→

FireEye Acquires Respond Software to Advance Cybersecurity AI

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FireEye Inc., a provider of managed security services augmented by machine learning algorithms, has acquired Respond Software, a provider of a platform that automates security incident investigations, for $186 million. Peter Bailey, executive vice pre… Continue reading FireEye Acquires Respond Software to Advance Cybersecurity AI→

Taking the Risk Out of Mergers and Acquisitions

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In the post-COVID-19 economy, cyber risk and cybersecurity will play a central role in unlocking mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal valuations. While economic uncertainty has contributed to a decline in M&A activity in the first half of 2020, many analysts expect an increase in deals during 2020-21 based on several conditions.  The Mergers and Acquisitions […]

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Mergers and Acquisitions: Analog Devices Snaps Up Maxim Integrated for $21 B

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Analog Devices will acquire Maxim Integrated for $20.9 billion dollars in stock, as reported by Bloomberg this morning.

Perhaps the confusing part of the news is that the Bloomberg article mentions the acquisition will let Analog Devices better compete with Texas Instruments. Wait, didn’t Texas Instruments acquire Maxim back in …read more

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Databricks acquires Redash, a visualizations service for data scientists

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Data and analytics service Databricks today announced that it has acquired Redash, a company that helps data scientists and analysts visualize their data and build dashboards around it. Redash’s customers include the likes of Atlassian, Cloudflare, Mozilla and Soundcloud and the company offers both an open source self-hosted version of its tools, as well as […] Continue reading Databricks acquires Redash, a visualizations service for data scientists→

Zoom Beefs Up End-to-End Encryption to Thwart ‘Zoombombers’

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As the company continues to battle security woes, it has acquired Keybase to boost security and privacy. A full cryptographic draft architecture will be available on May 22. Continue reading Zoom Beefs Up End-to-End Encryption to Thwart ‘Zoombombers’→

What Does GitHub’s npm Acquisition Mean For Developers?

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Microsoft’s open-source shopping spree has claimed another victim: npm. [Nat Friedman], CEO of GitHub (owned by Microsoft), announced the move recently on the GitHub blog.

So what motivated the acquisition, and what changes are we likely to see as a result of it? There are some obvious upsides and integrations, …read more

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Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks

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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Affirmed Networks, a company that specializes in fully virtualized, cloud-native networking solutions for telecom operators. With its focus on 5G and edge computing, Affirmed looks like the ideal acquisition target for a large cloud provider looking to get deeper into the telco business. According to Crunchbase, Affirmed had […] Continue reading Microsoft acquires 5G specialist Affirmed Networks→