Feb
10
Intellizence highlights some of the major Merger & Acquisition Deals trends for the month of January 2021. The most active sectors were technology, healthcare, banking & financial services, energy, manufacturing, and retail. Highlights of the Month Banking & Financial Services Peraton acquires Perspecta - Peraton, a portfolio company of Veritas... read more →
Jan
26
Intellizence highlights Merger & Acquisition trends for the month of December 2020. The most active sectors we monitored were technology, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and retail. Key Highlights : Most of the M&A activity in the technology sector was focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and... read more →
Dec
22
Leading technology companies acquire startups regularly to stay competitive. The technology focus areas of acquired companies provide signals about current and emerging technology trends. Intellizence tracks acquisitions by top technology companies from various public sources. We have analyzed over 40 acquisitions by 13 top technology companies so far this year.... read more →
Dec
16
Huntington Bancshares Inc., the parent company of The Huntington National Bank, and TCF Financial Corporation, the parent company of TCF National Bank, announced that the companies will combine in an all-stock merger with a total market value of approximately $22 billion. With this merger they will become the top 10... read more →
Dec
16
Pluralsight, a Utah-based startup that sells software development courses to enterprises, has been acquired by Vista, the market leading investment firm for $3.5 billion. With the acquisition of Pluralsight, Vista gains an online training company that helps educate IT professionals, including developers, operations, data and security, with a suite of... read more →
Dec
15
Short-form video is extremely popular on social media and the latest tech company to join the bandwagon is Reddit, which has acquired Dubsmash. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. While Reddit will integrate its video creation tools, Dubsmash will retain its own platform and brand. Dubmash’s leadership team,... read more →
Dec
10
Google’s Google Cloud division has acquired Dataform,a company that helps businesses manage data warehouses. Dataform helps data-rich companies draw insights from the data stored in their data warehouses. It enables analysts and engineers to manage all their data processes within the warehouse, using a single, unified workflow, making it faster... read more →
Dec
10
Security firm G4S has agreed to an acquisition offer from its US rival Allied Universal Security Services, which values the British company at £3.8 Billion (US$5.1 Billion). G4S shareholders would receive 245p a share, which is an improvement on the 210p a share offered earlier by Allied Universal, which G4S... read more →
Dec
09
Uber’s self-driving unit — the Advanced Technologies Group(ATG) — has been acquired by its start-up competitor, Aurora Innovation, a tech company developing and testing autonomous technology. The deal, expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, values ATG at approximately $4 billion. The acquisition will accelerate the development of... read more →
Dec
08
Uber’s self-driving unit — the Advanced Technologies Group(ATG) — has been acquired by its start-up competitor, Aurora Innovation, a tech company developing and testing autonomous technology. The deal, expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, values ATG at approximately $4 billion. The acquisition will accelerate the development of... read more →