Displaying items by tag: Acquisitions

COMPANY NEWS: Cashrewards, Australia’s leading cashback platform, today announced the acquisition of Little Birdie, an innovative shopping companion powered by world-leading technology. Little Birdie’s platform can ingest tens of millions of products, using advanced machine learning models to categorise and match them with precision, and proprietary algorithms to highlight the best daily deals for members.

The joint solution will help global marketing teams reduce time to market and avoid millions in regulatory fines by automating manual approval processes.  

COMPANY NEWS:  IntelligenceBank, a leading innovator in content compliance with its Digital Asset Management, Brand Portals and Marketing Operations platforms, today announced it has agreed to acquire Red Marker, a leading AI-powered SaaS solution that automates brand, legal and regulatory compliance reviews across marketing materials and websites. 

Motorola Solutions has acquired Sydney-headquartered Noggin, a global provider of cloud-based business continuity planning, operational resilience and critical event management (CEM) software.

Global Payments Australia’s proposed acquisition of School Bytes Learning has raised concerns for the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

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COMPANY NEWS: DataStax, the Generative AI data company, today announces it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AI startup, Logspace, the creators of Langflow, a popular, open source visual framework for building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.

Mid-market managed services provider First Focus has announced the acquisition of Enee, an Adelaide based MSP.

Cybersecurity company SonicWall has acquired Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Solutions Granted.

Tesserent shareholders and option holders have voted to accept the schemes of arrangement that will see the company acquired by Thales Australia, a subsidiary of French technology business Thales Group. The deal will see another Australian listed IT company disappearing from the ASX.

Yet another Australian IT business is about to fall into overseas hands with the proposed acquisition of digital transformation consultancy MF & Associates by Fujitsu and Fujitsu Australia.

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Security vendor Check Point Software Technologies is acquiring Atmosec, a start-up specialising in SaaS security.

UK-headquartered providers of business management software Access Hospitality, part of the Access Group, has announced the acquisition of ResDiary, a provider of bookings and table management software to clients in the hospitality sector.

US real estate software specialist MRI Software has acquired has acquired Australian PropTech consultancy Loci Solutions.

Professional services firm Accenture has acquired Bourne Digital, an Australian digital design agency focused on the SAP ecosystem.

Smart buildings technology provider Salto Systems has acquired UK-based access control specialist TouchByte.

New Zealand’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission has granted clearance for Connexa Limited to acquire certain passive mobile telecommunications infrastructure assets from Two Degrees Networks Limited and Two Degrees Mobile Limited. (2degrees).

British regulatory and compliance software vendor Ideagen has acquired Australian Microsoft 365 specialist OnePlace Solutions.

CPaaS provider Soprano Design has completed the acquisition of Singapore-based mobile messaging company Hello Technology.

UK regulator the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has softened its previous tough stance against global software giant Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of popular US video game publisher Activision.

New Zealand competition regulator, The Commerce Commission, has published a statement of issues relating to an application from Connexa Limited (Connexa) to acquire certain passive mobile telecommunications infrastructure assets from Two Degrees Networks Limited and Two Degrees Mobile Limited (2degrees).