Orange acquisition of Jazztel cleared after concessions
The European Commission has finally given the acquisition of Spanish fixed-line player Jazztel by French mobile operator Operator Orange the green light, subject to some concessions from Orange. The...
View ArticleAltice acquisition spree continues with US cable player Suddenlink
Not content with snapping up SFR and Portugal Telecom in the past year, French telco Altice has announced the acquisition of 70% of US cable company Suddenlink. Suddenlink has 1.5 million residential...
View ArticleCharter set to buy Time Warner Cable for $55 billion
UPDATED 13:00 26 May 2015 – Charter has confirmed the move, see full press release below. Charter Communications, the fourth biggest cable company in the US, is expected to formally announce a $55...
View ArticleAvago buys Broadcom for $37 billion to create IoT chip giant
It seems every corner of the mobile market is consolidating right now and semiconductors are clearly no exception, with digital signal processing chip maker Avago acquiring communications chip company...
View ArticleIntel joins IoT M&A frenzy with $17 billion Altera acquisition
Chip giant Intel has wasted little time in joining the recent flurry of semiconductor M&A activity by acquiring embedded chip company Altera for $16.7 billion. Altera specialises FPGAs...
View ArticleComverse continues digital services transition with Acision acquisition
US company Comverse, which provides digital services such as monetization to CSPs, has announced it is acquiring UK SMS platform provider Acision. The purchase price consists of 3.13 million shares of...
View ArticleFidelity looks to fully acquire Colt but faces opposition
Fidelity Investments, which is already the majority shareholder in Colt Group, has bid to acquire the remaining stock of the telecoms and cloud provider, but Colt directors are unconvinced. The...
View ArticleBouygues rejects Altice acquisition offer
Following a meeting to discuss the acquisition bid for Bouygues Telecom by Altice, the Bouygues board decided unanimously to reject the offer, citing a number of reasons. Firstly the board reckons the...
View ArticleRedknee acquires Orga to boost billing offering
Canadian BSS company Redknee Solutions has announced it will be acquiring German converged billing specialist Orga Systems for €38 million to enhance its real-time monetization and subscriber...
View ArticleAltice responds to Bouygues rejection, announces Dutch move
Having had its advances promptly spurned earlier in the week, Altice has decided to belatedly reveal more details of its offer to acquire Bouygues Telecom, in an apparent appeal to Bouygues...
View ArticleExclusive – Nokia details thinking behind Alcatel-Lucent acquisition
At a time when the telecoms industry is rife with M&A activity, the proposed acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent by Nokia announced earlier this year still stood out as pivotal. Big mergers are often...
View ArticleNokia sells HERE to Audi, BMW and Daimler for €2.5 billion
Nokia has continued its transition towards focusing entirely in networking by selling its HERE navigation arm to a consortium of German car makers for a net total of €2.5 billion. The sale of HERE had...
View ArticleQualcomm acquires G.fast chip company Ikanos for $47 million
Communications chip giant Qualcomm has moved to augment the fixed-line offering of its Atheros subsidiary with the acquisition of broadband chip and software provider Ikanos for $2.75 per share. That...
View ArticleOfcom sees no major regulatory problems with BT acquisition of EE
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has submitted its report into the proposed BTEE acquisition and doesn’t anticipate any competition issues that can’t be dealt with through the standard regulatory channels....
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Nokia Alcatel-Lucent acquisition progresses with SEC filing
Finnish networks company Nokia has announced a milestone in the progress of its acquisition of rival Alcatel-Lucent with the filing of a preliminary draft of its registration statement with the US...
View ArticleBlackBerry invests in mobile management with $425m Good Technology acquisition
Canadian mobile company BlackBerry has moved to strengthen its mobile device management offering with the acquisition of a major competitor in that space – Good Technology – for $425 million....
View ArticleEricsson goes big on TV with $125m Envivio acquisition and new broadcast...
Infrastructure giant Ericsson has kicked off the IBC broadcasting trade show with a raft of TV-related announcements, including the acquisition of video technology company Envivio for $125 million....
View ArticleAltice cements US ambitions with $17.7 bn Cablevision acquisition
French telco conglomerate Altice has made a major strategic move into the US market with the acquisition of Cablevision for $17.7 billion to become the fourth largest US cable operator. Cablevision...
View ArticleDell acquiring EMC for $67 billion to boost cloud proposition
As extensively leaked PC and server outfit Dell announced it will be acquiring storage giant EMC for $67 billion to create a leading player in the datacentre and cloud industries, reports BCN. Dell is...
View ArticleCisco to buy Parstream for IoT analytics at the edge
Cisco Systems is to buy California based ParStream, whose systems can analyse and filter billions of IoT records in sub-second time. If the acquisition proceeds Cisco will gain ParStream DB, a columnar...
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