by Ron Miller | Feb 26, 2021 | Business Enhancements, M&A, Startups
The Atlassian platform is chock full of data about how a company operates and communicates. Atlassian launched a machine learning layer, which relies on data on the platform with the addition of Atlassian Smarts last fall. Today the company announced it was acquiring...
by Ron Miller | Feb 19, 2021 | Business Enhancements, M&A, Startups
SailPoint, an identity management company that went public in 2017, announced it was going to be acquiring Intello today, an early stage SaaS management startup. The two companies did not share the purchase price. SailPoint believes that by helping its customers...
by Ron Miller | Jul 31, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A, Startups
As the Internet of Things, proliferates, security cameras are getting smarter. Today, these devices have machine learning capability that help the camera automatically identify what it’s looking at — for instance an animal or a human intruder? Today, Cisco...
by Ron Miller | Jul 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A
When SAP announced it was spinning out Qualtrics on Sunday, a company it bought less than two years ago for an eye-popping $8 billion, it was enough to make your head spin. At the time, then CEO Bill McDermott saw it as a way to bridge the company’s core...
by Connie Loizos | Jul 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A, Startups
Today, Priti Youssef Choksi is a partner with venture firm Norwest Venture Partners . But she previously spent five-and-a-half years at Google, where she worked on strategic partnerships, and nearly nine years at Facebook, where she began in corporate development and...
by Ingrid Lunden | Jul 21, 2020 | Business Enhancements, M&A, Startups
Consolidation continues apace in the world of e-commerce, and today it was the turn of the classified ads market. Today, eBay announced that it had reached a deal to sell off its Classifieds business unit to Adevinta, a Norway-based classified ads publisher majority...
