The biggest business news from yesterday was that Twitter and Elon Musk have come to a deal where an entity owned by Musk would acquire Twitter for just over 44 billion dollars. What will this mean for Twitter? There is much speculation about what this means for the leading soapbox app. Some of the things […]
Acquisitions and mergers this week in the world of B2B… *** Omnitracs, LLC, a global pioneer of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies, today announced the completion of its acquisition of the assets of Shaw Tracking, a subsidiary of Shaw Communications Inc. and the leading fleet management solutions provider in Canada. *** The Telecommunications […]
A roundup of this week’s mergers and acquisitions in B2B… *** Wellspring, a leader in innovation management software, announced the acquisition of Covalent Data, a provider of intelligent search tools that enable companies to find innovative technologies and intellectual property. Covalent Data’s software uses machine learning to stitch together hundreds of data sources covering patents, SEC […]
This week’s digest of mergers and acquisitions in B2B… *** TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Statistica, a leader in data science. The acquisition will augment TIBCO’s analytics product offerings, adding new capabilities aimed at making it easier for data scientists […]
A look at Mergers and Acquisitions in B2B this week… *** Pacific Special Acquisition Corp. announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement with Borqs International Holding Corp., a leading global provider of smart connected devices and cloud service solutions for the Internet of Things (“IoT”) industry. Upon closing under the merger agreement, Borqs […]
A look at Mergers and Acquisitions in B2B this week… *** Grey Group, the global marketing communications company, today announced it has acquired Tank, a leading full-service healthcare and consumer agency with offices in Montreal. Tank will retain its name and become part of Grey Group Canada which already operates in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Marc Lanouette, President of Tank, […]
A look at Mergers and Acquisitions in B2B this week… *** Saksoft Limited, a leading digital transformation company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire majority stake in Bengaluru based DreamOrbit Softech Private Limited (technology solution consulting firm with a focus on providing IT services to the Logistics Industry). With this acquisition, Saksoft will further […]
A look at Mergers and Acquisitions in B2B this week… *** Ketchum, one of the world’s leading communications firms, and Daggerwing Group, a management consultancy, announced the merger of Ketchum’s leadership and change management unit, Ketchum Change, with Daggerwing Group. Both agencies are part of Omnicom Group’s DAS Group of Companies. The merger is effective Jan. 1, […]
With the recent and rumored announcements by B2B marketing and data analytics providers for cloud solutions that will build on top of Salesforce, Oracle and other SaaS platforms, the multi-relationship model of martech stack-building exists in high relief. And while vendors may be pushing a multi-relationship model, marketers may want to think carefully before pursuing […]
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff will have plenty to talk about at Dreamforce next month, having presided over an epic $4 billion shopping spree in which the cloud computing giant has snapped up around a dozen companies in the past year. Acquisitions range from the $2.8 billion Demandware deal, the largest such purchase Salesforce has made […]
2016 could be the year we see a major increase in M&A activity within the advertising space, according to new data from mergers and acquisitions firm AdMedia Partners. More than half of the survey respondents (54 percent) said they would explore a sale of their company next year. Last year’s survey saw 40 percent of respondents saying […]
