Displaying items by tag: Mergers&Acquisitions(M&A)

Telstra is taking up an equity partnership in Southern Cross Cable Networks with an investment that gives it extra capacity in the trans-Pacific subsea cable.

Data insights and programmatic media company, Pureprofile, is acquiring Cohort, an Australian company delivering lead generation solutions for advertisers and publishers in Australia, the UK and the US.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the green light to JB Hi-Fi’s proposed acquisition of retail rival, the Good Guys Discount Warehouses, saying it won’t oppose the deal over competitive concerns.

Australian global satellite communications and network service provider, SpeedCast, has acquired European-based maritime industry broadband satellite communications and IT solutions company WINS.

Telstra has acquired local Australian application development and managed services consultancy Readify as the big telco’s aggressive acquisition strategy continues apace.

Wholesale telecommunications services provider Inabox has sold its hosted collaboration solutions business to Telstra for $4.5 million.

Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent has finally closed with the newly merged company now trading as the Nokia Group of Companies.

iiNet shareholders will meet on 27 July in Perth to decide whether to approve the takeover of the company by rival telco and ISP, TPG.

Call centre and conferencing solutions provider Avaya has completed the acquisition of Canadian real-time collaboration and communications software vendor Esna Technologies.

BlackBerry is to acquire WatchDox and will offer the data security company’s technology as a value-added service to complement its own portfolio of Enterprise Mobility Management solutions, and which will be available with BES12, a multi-OS EMM solution.

Global IT services provider Zebra Technologies has promoted sales executive Ryan Goh to Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific.

Professional services firm KPMG Australia has acquired Asia Pacific cyber security technology solutions business, First Point Global.

HP is to acquire network solutions provider Aruba Networks in a deal valued at around US$2.7 billion after the two companies announced they had entered into a definitive agreement.   

Web services and domain names provider Melbourne IT is to buy Australian cloud services company Uber Global in a deal valued at $15.5 million.

Australian-founded company Pirtek Fluid Transfer Solutions – a global franchise platform – has acquired Pirtek USA to further expand its worldwide business.

Australian listed software company TechnologyOne has today completed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire unlisted software vendor ICON Software Solutions for $10 million.

Global Enterprise Information Management (EIM) company OpenText has completed the acquisition, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Asteroid Acquisition, of analytics vendor Actuate.

Australian BPO services and offshore contact centre operator Acquire has moved to diversify and expand its range of business processing services with the finalisation today of the acquisition of Philippine-based BPO Shore Solutions.

Vocus Communications has moved a step closer to its possible takeover of Perth-based telecommunications company Amcom, with the two companies today entering exclusive due diligence talks.

Global ICT services provider Dimension Data has paid $171 million to acquire Melbourne-based national consulting technology services company Oakton.