Tag Archives: Deals

Salesforce has acquired Vlocity, a provider of industry-specific cloud and mobile software built natively on the Salesforce platform, for approximately $1.33 billion. But Salesforce (CRM) stock is in red.An American cloud-based software company Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) announced it bought Vlocity for $1.33 billion – all cash.This interesting acquisition, however, didn’t come as such a surprise. Vlocity is a company that makes six industry-specific CRMs on top of Salesforce. Those are...

As the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint is finalized, both companies have made a few amendments and hope to finalize all details by April. Deutsche Telekom will get a good stake.According to a recent announcement, both Sprint and T-Mobile have agreed to change the details for their new merger should be finalized shortly. The new amendment will allow Germany’s Deutsche Telekom to hold much more control in the newly-formed company.Sprint and T-Mobile Agree to ChangesAccording to the new...

Morgan Stanley’s acquisition of E*Trade has caused a stir in the global investment community. E*Trade has been a leading online broker that has produced stellar results for the greater part of a decade.E*Trade financial group has been reported by sources to have about $360 Billion in assets. The deal which is estimated to be worth about $13 billion is Morgan Stanley’s largest since the last financial crisis in 2008.This will give the financial giant about 5 million new clients 4,000 of which...

While Google Cloud is buying Cornerstone Technology and expanding profits, the eyes of investors are aimed at the Alphabet (GOOGL) stock price and tech giant’s financial reports.Google Cloud buys Cornerstone Technology company to boost the development of cloud computing, AI and similar tech. CEO Google Cloud Thomas Kurian is very happy with the announcement, as Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) kept their upholstered offers ready. Now, Alphabet Inc....

With the Harbor acquisition, BitGo becomes the first firm in the crypto space wherein a single company holds broker-dealer, transfer agent, and qualified custodian licenses.BitGo, the popular crypto custodian services provider plans to expand its footprint in the crypto market by undertaking new services. As part of its expansion plan, BitGo has acquired a security token platform dubbed Harbor.This announcement came on Tuesday, February 18, however, the terms of the deal were not disclosed....

Berkshire Hathaway has added Kroger to its long list of investment stakes. Warren Buffett’s company has purchased nearly 19 million shares of the retail giant. BRK.B is up.Big business is almost always filled with investments and acquisitions. These investments are strategic by companies that believe the move will do wonders for their overall business. While the reason for the specific reasons might not always be known to the public, it is always interesting to see the choices. Another...

Crypto broker Voyager has entered into the agreement with Circle Internet Financial to acquire Circle Invest, which is the retail digital asset app.Digital asset broker the Voyager announced its acquisition of a retail trading app from Circle Internet Financial on February 12, 2020. According to the acquisition agreement, Voyager will be integrating the features of the acquired Circle Invest app with its platform. Therefore, adding more than 40,000 new customers to its 200,000 already...

As it tries to sanitize the playing field, the FTC has announced an investigation into some of the biggest tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.The Federal Trade Commission, FTC, has announced its decision to begin an investigation targeted at some tech giants. The Commission said that the investigation is to shine its spotlight on these companies’ acquisitions carried out in the past, that may not have been thoroughly scrutinized by the regulator. The tech giants...

It is expected that within the next 6 months, JPMorgan will officially announce the merge of its blockchain system Quorum with that of ConsenSys. The companies are in talks now.JPMorgan Chase & Co, one of the largest banks in the United States by assets, is considering merging its blockchain unit Quorum with Brooklyn based startup ConsenSys. This is according to a post on Reuters posted on February 11 analyzing the deal and its possible outcome.According to the post, the deal is likely to...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in the filing that it wants to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis over a $10 billion Pentagon’s JEDI contract awarded to Microsoft.Amazon Web Services (AWS) spokesperson blames United States President Donald Trump for using his executive powers in order “to advance his personal agenda.” They also claim that the example of this was awarding of the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense...