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Whats the biggest tech acquisition in history? Dells buyout of EMC in 2015 Googles buyout of Motorola in 2011 Nvidias buyout of Arm in 2020 HPs buyout of Compaq in 2002 Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Correct Answer: Dells buyout of EMC in 2015 Keep reading… It may not be the most recognizable deal from this list, but Dells acquisition of enterprise storage company EMC for $67 billion in cash and stock stands as the tech industrys largest buyout. This took pl...

Maynooth University welcomes science funding research money Government funding aligned with 200 industrial companies Reporter:  );  Maynooth University (MU) has welcomed an investment of €193 million in five Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centres for a further five years announced today by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris.  The investment is set to benefit the whole country with 17 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), in...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Noteworthy tech acquisitions so far in 2021 In 2020, global technology M&A deals amounted to $634.1 billion, an increase of 91.8 per cent year-on-year. Can 2021 match that for blockbuster activity? Credit: Dreamstime Amid the coronavirus, 2020 was unpredictable in more ways than anyone would have expected. But one thing tha...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After nearly a decade of growth, global M&A activity in the first quarter of 2020 was down 39.1% by deal value year over year — comparable to levels seen in the first quarter of 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis. The chilling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of the year translated to a significant backlog of M&A transactions. Approaching the end of 2020, however, dealmaking returned in full force, despite ...

January 28: Workday acquires Peakon for $ 700 million Peakon was founded in Denmark in 2014 and has raised $ 68 million in funding to date. It provides organizations with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool to regularly track employee sentiment and other tools to measure employee happiness, making it a highly complementary acquisition to Workday’s proprietary SaaS HR tools . “Including Peakon into the Workday family will be very attractive to our customers – especially after an extraordi...

The Putative Promise Of Programmables For many years the programmable companies argued that it was inevitable that they would take over the ASIC and ASSP market. In 2004, John Daane, then CEO of Altera, impressed that rationale on me: “It costs $30m at 90nm for a new chip,” argued Daane, “to get payback you need revenues of $150m. That means, if you’re getting ten per cent market share, that you need a market of $1.5bn. There are not many applications except cell phones and computers wh...

Samsung mentioned it during its conference call with investors that it is looking towards more mergers and acquisitions in the next three years. - SamMobile

Barclays says GameStop mania is unlikely to result in broader ramifications for the market. The U.S. SEC pledges to protect retail investors.

Source: Media Outreach SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 27 January 2021 – Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) is partnering JTC and e2i, electronics companies, academia, to launch a series of new initiatives to attract and retain talent, as well as make the electronics sector an attractive environment to work in. Even as many sectors scaled back in 2020, the electronics and semiconductor industry remains resilient. It continues to create good job opportunities and offer a va...

Advanced Micro Devices beat Wall Street projections and saw record quarterly and annual revenue as the chipmaker continues to gain momentum against larger rival Intel Corp.