Acquisition stories - Page 144

As Cisco transitions the business model, the savings from global headcount reductions will be invested to further expand software and services.

2degrees remains tight-lipped on speculation about a possible AUD $900 million acquisition by Australian telco TPG, quelling merger rumours.

Vendors are looking at new technologies to drive long-term growth, including hyperconverged platforms, SDN and hybrid cloud solutions.

A push into enterprise managed services and demand for digital transformation are propelling Intergen to new growth.

Dick Smith Electronics' failure has had a golden lining for JB Hi-Fi, which has seen its profit and sales climb since DSE's exit from the market.

Blue Reach, Freeview, InternetNZ, Spark, Trustpower, TUANZ, TVNZ and 2degrees all have serious concerns about the Sky-Vodafone merger.

Spark says mobile and platform IT services now outweigh declining areas of the business, which Spark's chairman says reflects a turning point.

Dicker Data, the ICT distributor, claims 53% of resellers would change vendors if a subscription model wasn't offered.

Spark has formally announced that it is opposing the Sky TV/Vodafone merger, citing Sky's unfair monopoly on the wholesale sports content market.

AVG has announced its second quarter 2016 financial results, bringing in $105 million ahead of its merger with Avast in the coming months.

HPE continues its investment in big data technology as the company acquires SGI, a data analytics, data management and compute solutions provider.

The completion date for Ingram Micro's sale to Tianjin Tianhai has been delayed to enable a US review of security implications to be completed.

Symantec's eight-quarter revenue decline will stop in 3Q16, thanks to acquisition of Blue Coat, says TBR analyst.

JDA Software expands ANZ presence with new office in North Sydney, aiming to continue building on past success.

Ingram Micro's Connector Systems is gearing up to help resellers take full advantage of the opportunities offered by Brocade's acquisition of Ruckus.

The cyber security market is set for a revival as new vendors take top positions in market share, according to a report by TBR.

Holistic approach to DDoS protection, country-specific threat intelligence and continuous innovation see Arbor take out on-prem DDoS solution award.

VMware has appointed Duncan Hewett as senior vice president and general manager, who will lead the company's operations across Asia Pacific and Japan.

Blue Coat enhances Security Analytics with anomaly detection and support for SCADA environments to improve incident response.

AOL and Yahoo join forces in a US$4.8bn deal, their last chance to compete with Google and Facebook in the digital media market.