by Ron Miller | Mar 16, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A
GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nate Friedman wrote in a blog post announcing the deal, npm is a big deal in the...
by Ron Miller | Mar 10, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A
Dell’s 2015 decision to buy EMC for $67 billion remains the largest pure tech deal in history, but a transaction of such magnitude created a mountain of debt for the Texas-based company and its primary backer, Silver Lake. Dell would eventually take on close to...
by Ron Miller | Mar 2, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A
Thoma Bravo announced today that it has closed its hefty $3.9 billion acquisition of security firm Sophos, marking yet another private equity deal in the books. The deal was originally announced in October. Stockholders voted to approve the deal in December. They were...
by Frederic Lardinois | Feb 27, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Companies, M&A
Contract management service DocuSign today announced that it is acquiring Seal Software for $188 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. DocuSign, it’s worth noting, previously invested $15 million in Seal Software in 2019. Seal...
by Ron Miller | Feb 17, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A, Startups
PullRequest, a startup that provides code review as a service, announced today that it was buying Moonlight, an early stage startup that has built an online platform for hiring remote developers. The companies did not share the terms. Lyal Avery, founder and CEO at...
by Ron Miller | Feb 13, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A, Startups
When Google announced that it was acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion last June, it was a big deal on a couple of levels. It was a lot of money and it represented the first large deal under the leadership of Thomas Kurian. Today, the company...
