Oracle to Buy Cloud Service Provider RightNow for $1.5B

Oracle has entered an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies for approximately $1.43 billion cash, or $43.00 per share.

RightNow is a cloud-based service provider headquartered in Montana that supports call centers and help desks to improve clients’ customer service.

The deal is Oracle’s first purchase of a software as a service company, the Wall Street Journal reported. Oracle announced the launch of…

Quest Acquires British Software Firm ChangeBASE

Quest Software Inc. has acquired ChangeBASE, a privately-held software provider based in the U.K., which specializes in automated application analysis, remediation and conversion for target platforms including Windows 7 and 8, Internet Explorer 8 and 9, Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Session Host, VDI, and Application Virtualization.

Quest said the acquisition will expand its product portfolio, allowing companies to develop a…

IBM Wraps Up Algorithmics Acquisition Growing Business Analytics Portfolio

IBM has closed its acquisition of Algorithmics, a firm providing software and services for improved business insights at banks and investment and insurance organizations to assess risk and address regulatory challenges.

IBM said the acquisition will expand the company’s business analytics capabilities in the area of financial risk. IBM recently acquired OpenPages and the combined acquisitions add to IBM’s…

Cisco to Acquire Firm BNI Video, Boost Videoscape TV Platform

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately-held BNI Video, a Boxborough, Mass.-based firm that supplies service providers with two major video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network analytic capabilities.

Cisco said the acquisition will advance the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, which it said allows service providers to deliver compelling video experiences to…

Microsoft Completes $8.5B Skype Acquisition, Welcomes New Team

Skype will become a business unit of Microsoft Corp. after the board of directors of each company agreed on the terms of an $8.5 billion acquisition.

Microsoft said the move will accelerate the companies’ efforts to transform real-time communications for consumers and enterprise customers.

In the long term, Microsft will integrate Skype into many of its products “to broaden Skype’s reach and accelerate its…

Neustar Acquiring TARGUSinfo to Expand Real-Time Services Portfolio

Neustar, Inc and Targus Information Corporation have entered a definitive agreement where Neustar will acquire TARGUSinfo for $650 million in cash, in a deal designed to extend Neustar’s ability to provide services based on unique, non-replicable datasets.

TARGUSinfo is an independent provider of real-time, on-demand information for services such as Caller ID and online information services including verification and…

IBM Acquires Platform Computing to Speed its Smarter Planet Strategy

IBM has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Platform Computing for an undosclosed price. The deal is expected to be completed by the end of the fourth quarter.

Platform Computing specializes in software ranging from departmental clusters to enterprise grids, and combined with IBM services, will create better service for enterprise clients using technical computing. 

“IBM considers the acquisition of Platform…

IBM Acquires Q1 Labs for Security Intelligence Software

IBM announced today an agreement to acquire security intelligence software provider Q1 Labs for an undisclosed price. The deal will enable IBM to help clients more intelligently secure their enterprises by applying analytics to correlate information from key security domains and create security dashboards for their organizations.

“Realigning IBM’s security expertise in a new division with a greater…

Red Hat Pays $136M for Gluster and Big Data Storage

Red Hat signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gluster, Inc., lead provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions in managing unstructured data, for $136 million in cash. The acquisition allows Red Hat to change how enterprise IT manages explosion of big data whether it be deployed on-premise or through public cloud offerings. 

“The explosion of big data and the…