The final billion-dollar deal saw Blackerry make its largest acquisition to date, paying $1.4 billion for AI cybersecurity startup Cylance. Vista Equity partners paid $1.94 billion for cloud software company Apptio and private equity fund CVC paid $1.8 billion for a global IT and managed services provider, ConvergeOne Holdings. Not far behind was Commscope paying $7.4 billion for telecommunication equipment maker Arris.

November 2018 was a busy month in the M&A space, with lots of action! The largest deal saw SAP shell out $8 billion for experience management company Qualtrics. Smaller deals saw Talend buy Restlet and Qualys buy Netwatcher. McAfee also made an acquisition, Skyhigh Networks which used to be an Intel company. Three years ago, in November 2017, the big M&A activity for the month saw investment firm Thoma Bravo pay $1.6 billion for Barracuda networks. SoftwareOne acquired and integrated House of Lync and Avnet completed an acquisition of Hackster. In November 2016, Broadcom acquired Brocade Communication Systems for $5.9 billion Adobe purchased multi-channel programmatic video platform TubeMogul for $540 million IT services and outsourcing provider Wipro Limited bought IT cloud consulting firm Appirio for $500 million Oracle announced its plans to acquire DNS solution provider, Dyn Inc. Other deals saw Ingram Micro grow its Brazilian presence with the purchase of ACAO PCM bought Edmonton-based services firm Acrodex Data centre company CentriLogic bought infrastructure company Advanced Knowledge Networks solution provider Scalar Systems bought another Toronto company, professional services firm Eosensa and Washington-based New Signature bought Toronto-based Microsoft Partner, Imason. Other, smaller deals saw Apple buy Faceshift, a motion capture company whose technology was used in a Star Wars movie and Lightspeed POS bought SEOshop, increasing its size as a competitor to Shopify. Zayo Holding Group became the first foreign company to own a Canadian telco after paying $465 million for Allstream. įive years ago, November 2015 saw E xpedia pay $3.9 billion for HomeAway as a vehicle to better compete with Airbnb. What you see here is a pr�is of the monthly report I produce, which will be available in more detail at the News section of the Eagle website, where you will also find back issues.Ī Little History of previous year's Novembers. This is my 30,000 foot look at events in the Tech industry for November 2020.

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