Trump blocks Broadcom’s proposed takeover of Qualcomm
President Trump signed an executive order prohibiting Broadcom from acquiring Qualcomm or proceeding with any substantially equivalent merger, acquisition, or ...
Tag: Merger & Acquisitions
Lumentum to acquire Oclaro for $1.8 billion
Lumentum agreed to acquire Oclaro for approximately $1.8 billion in cash and stock. Under the deal, Oclaro stockholders will be ...
GTT acquires Accelerated Connections, expanding across Canada
GTT Communications has acquired Accelerated Connections (ACI), a Toronto-headquartered provider of managed networking, voice-over-IP (VoIP) and colocation services, serving large ...
Nutanix to acquire Minjar for multicloud capabilities
Nutanix agreed to acquire Minjar, a start-up with development offices in Bengaluru, India that offers cost control and visibility services ...
GTT’s acquisition of Interoute would add 72K km of European fiber to its transatlantic cables
GTT Communications agreed to acquire Interoute, operator of one of Europe’s largest independent fiber networks and cloud networking platforms, for ...
Zayo to divest its Minnesota Local Exchange Carrier
Zayo Group will sell its Scott-Rice Telephone Co. business unit, a Minnesota ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier), for $42 million ...
Antin Infrastructure Partners to acquire FirstLight
Antin Infrastructure Partners (Antin) agreed to acquire FirstLight, a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider operating in the Northeast U.S., ...
Broadcom trims its offer for Qualcomm to $79 per share
Broadcom trimmed its offer to acquire Qualcomm from $82 to $79 per share, but said it is still committed to ...
Google agreed to acquire Xively for enterprise IoT
Google agreed to acquire Xively, a division of LogMeIn, for an undisclosed sum. Xively offers an enterprise-ready IoT platform with ...
Elliott insists fair value for NXP is $135 per share
Elliott Advisors (UK), which holds an approximate 7.2% economic interest in NXP Semiconductors, is insisting that the take-out value for ...
Oracle acquires Zenedge for cloud-based network security
Oracle agreed to acquire Zenedge, which helps enterprises secure their IT systems whether deployed in cloud, on-premise or hybrid hosting ...
Citrix acquires Cedexis for application delivery service for multiclouds
Citrix Systems has acquired Cedexis, a start-up that offers a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic ...
Siemens to acquire Finland’s Sarokal for 5G test
Siemens agreed to acquire Sarokal Test Systems Oy, a provider of innovative test solutions for fronthaul networks. Financial terms were ...
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