Software giant SAP has held talks in the last few weeks to acquire Jive Software - but decided not to buy the company, according to sources. Jive makes social applications for businesses including SAP, and has a market value of more than ...
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IBM will launch before midyear several new and improved collaboration and communication products, including a new suite for human resources tasks and a major upgrade of its Connections enterprise social networking product. The company, ...
IBM has announced that it will replace current UK CEO Stephen Leonard with David Stokes (pictured) with immediate effect, after Leonard was appointed general manager of IBM's global markets, systems and technology group. Stokes worked at ...
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IDG News Service - The number and value of technology mergers and acquisitions is flattening out, mainly as a result of economic uncertainty, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report. Fifty-nine tech sector M&A deals closed in the ...
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Oracle on Monday said it has agreed to acquire SelectMinds, a maker of "social talent sourcing software," in a bid to flesh out the capabilities it gained through this year's US$1.9 billion acquisition of Taleo. Terms of the deal, which ...
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IBM has closed its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Kenexa, intended to boost IBM’s enterprise social collaboration offerings with Kenexa’s cloud-based human resources applications and IT services. IBM paid $46 per share for ...
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Shares in technology giants Intel and IBM dropped as both companies showed weakness in their third quarter revenues. Chip manufacturer Intel reported a quarterly revenue of $13.46bn (£8.32bn), down from $14.23bn (£8.8bn) in ...
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IBM is to acquire human resources solutions provider Kenexa for about$1.3bn(£821m)as it looks to compete against the likes of Oracle,SAP and Salesforce.com in the software-as-a-service(SaaS)market. Kenexa uses cloud-based technology ...
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IBM plans to boost its enterprise social line of software by acquiring Kenexa, a maker of cloud-based human resources applications, the companies said on Monday. IBM has agreed to pay US$46 per share for Kenexa in a cash transaction worth ...
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