Acquisition stories - Page 154

The company says its new solid state drives are a cost-effective replacement for traditional hard disk drives.

Megaport's revenue up by 80% this year, with majority generated in Asia-Pacific units, says CEO Denver Maddux.

Top IT firms in APeJ grapple with market shrinkage and stiffer competition, as sector faces 2.1% slump amid economic shifts.

Dicker Data is continuing its growth trajectory, with revenue and profit both up for the first half of 2016 with growth across old and new vendors.

Deloitte Consulting named partner of the year by Nimble Storage at ANZ partner conference. Other winners announced.

Vocus profits have soared 461% on the back of its merger with M2 Group earlier this year, in what the company says has been a 'transformational year'.

Accenture has acquired Australian cloud consulting and security provider Redcore to expand its cybersecurity offerings in the Asia-Pacific region.

After acquiring Motorola and IBM's System x server business, Lenovo's fiscal 1Q17/calendar 2Q16 earnings revealed lingering growing pains.

Data#3's profits soar by 30.4%, poised to hit a £1bn revenue as it pivots towards service-centric IT solutions amidst a tech evolution.

As Cisco transitions the business model, the savings from global headcount reductions will be invested to further expand software and services.

2degrees remains tight-lipped on speculation about a possible AUD $900 million acquisition by Australian telco TPG, quelling merger rumours.

Vendors are looking at new technologies to drive long-term growth, including hyperconverged platforms, SDN and hybrid cloud solutions.

Dick Smith Electronics' failure has had a golden lining for JB Hi-Fi, which has seen its profit and sales climb since DSE's exit from the market.

Blue Reach, Freeview, InternetNZ, Spark, Trustpower, TUANZ, TVNZ and 2degrees all have serious concerns about the Sky-Vodafone merger.

Spark says mobile and platform IT services now outweigh declining areas of the business, which Spark's chairman says reflects a turning point.

Spark has formally announced that it is opposing the Sky TV/Vodafone merger, citing Sky's unfair monopoly on the wholesale sports content market.

AVG has announced its second quarter 2016 financial results, bringing in $105 million ahead of its merger with Avast in the coming months.

HPE continues its investment in big data technology as the company acquires SGI, a data analytics, data management and compute solutions provider.

The completion date for Ingram Micro's sale to Tianjin Tianhai has been delayed to enable a US review of security implications to be completed.

Symantec's eight-quarter revenue decline will stop in 3Q16, thanks to acquisition of Blue Coat, says TBR analyst.