Elastic Acquires Predictive Analytics Firm
Buy Prelert, the world needs... um Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, has acquired behavioural analytics biz Pr... Read more
British Mobile AI 'bot Perfecter Stalked By Silicon Valley – Report
Weave.ai rumoured to be AI tech target British AI startup, Weave.ai, is the latest company rumoured to be snatched up b... Read more
Straight Outta Staines: Attenda Has Finally Been Sold... To US Biz Ensono
We called it The Staines-based managed service provider Attenda has been sold to Ensono, and we called it.… Read more
Microsoft Leads Group Pelting 'heavy Duty' Robot Maker With $10.5m
Sarcos swaps cash for 4 board spots... that's going to end well RotM Sarcos Robotics has received $10.5m in investmen... Read more
Brexit Makes Life Harder For An Internet Of Things Startup
What's going to happen with the CE mark for 'leccy goods? At about the time when my startup will be wanting to sell to ... Read more
Investors Resist Larry Ellison's $9.3bn NetSuite Deal
'Unique' relationship with big shareholder questioned Influential investors are opposing NetSuite’s $9.3bn acquisitio... Read more
Little Boxes Made Of Ticky-tacky: What Dell's Record-busting $67bn EMC Deal Means
Engineered, er, systems for, you know, 'stuff' Dell’s acquisition of EMC is large by several measures: a $67bn purcha... Read more
Brexit? We Have Heard Of This, Says Dixons Carphone CEO
'No detectable impact' on consumer cash splash after vote to leave EU The UK's vote to leave the European Union has not... Read more
EMC/Dell Deal Respectfully Caps The Minicomputer Age
The legacies of Wang, Prime, DEC and Data General live on in mega-deal Over the years I've followed EMC, executives hav... Read more
My Dell Merger Wish List
I want geeks, the future and a pony Sysadmin Blog It's merger day, it's merger day! Everyone please crank out a pile ... Read more
What's Dell Brewing The Day Before Its EMC Mega-slurp? A Latte Money? Oh, A Flat White
Hopefully new biz has better luck than current one Dell has reported near-flat revenues for its second quarter of the y... Read more
GE Runs Off $1.4bn, Hands It To Two 3D Printing Firms
Powdered metal is big business GE, the US industrial jack-of-all-trades, has pledged to invest a whopping $1.4bn in two... Read more
Intel Adds Vision To Its AI Vision With Computer Vision Firm Buyout
Eyes up Movidius, reaches for its wallet Intel is not just content to build the silicon brains that will power the Rise... Read more
HSBC: How Will We Verify Business Banking Customers? Selfies!
Nothing says business like... oh, hang on UK bank HSBC will allow business customers to open new bank accounts using se... Read more