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| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 |
| Sector | Internet Software and Services |
| Revenue | 12.9B USD (2022) |
VMware is a provider of technologies designed to establish secure and reliable IT environments and address a range of complex IT challenges that include cost reduction, operational inefficiencies, access to cloud computing capacity, business continuity and corporate end-user computing device management. VMware's solutions enable organizations to aggregate multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks together into shared pools of capacity that can be allocated dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed. These internal computing infrastructures can be dynamically extended by customers to the public cloud environment. VMware was formed in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 7 of 44 |
| Sector: Software M&A | 4 of 17 |
| Type: Divestiture M&A Deals | 1 of 2 |
| State: California M&A | 4 of 27 |
| Country: United States M&A | 5 of 40 |
| Year: 2010 M&A | 1 of 5 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-10 |
SpringSource
San Mateo, California, United States SpringSource is a provider of Java application infrastructure and management. SpringSource provides a complete suite of software products that accelerate the entire build, run, manage enterprise Java application lifecycle. |
Buy | $362M |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-02-25 |
EMC Ionix
United States EMC Ionix represents a collection of software tools. Several include a scanning program for servers and networks to see all the hardware and software running on the corporate network, a root cause and impact analysis program, a service management help desk, and server management and network provisioning tools. |
Buy | $200M |
| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994 |
| Sector | Internet Software and Services |
| Employees | 9,400 |
| Revenue | 5.0B USD (2015) |
Yahoo! is a provider of internet search tools, content, and communication services. Yahoo! was formed in 1994 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 3 of 8 |
| Sector: Software M&A | 1 of 2 |
| Type: Divestiture M&A Deals | 3 of 7 |
| State: California M&A | 1 of 2 |
| Country: United States M&A | 2 of 7 |
| Year: 2010 M&A | 1 of 2 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-07-22 |
Xoopit
San Francisco, California, United States Xoopit is software that allows users to take the photos, files and videos that users send to them in email and post them to social networking sites and blogs, among other features from within their email software. It also converts the links people receive via email to thumbnails for easier browsing. |
Buy | $20M |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-02-26 |
Maktoob.com
Amman, Jordan Maktoob is a internet portal in the Arab world, providing a variety of online services to millions of users, including the most visited Arabic-language auction facility (souq.com), the first Arabic-language search engine (Araby.com), an interactive TV joint venture with MBC (Maktoob TV), the largest Arabic matrimonial website (Bentelhalal.com), the leading online Arab sports community (Sport4ever.com), with Arabic and English web-based email and chat rooms. |
Buy | $164M |
