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This is a central place where you can find information on the key mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures in the Technology, Media, & Telecom (TMT) Sectors. It is by no means an all inclusive list. In fact, it is a selective list of the players whom we think are visionary and leading the industry!
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March 2014

Last updated on March 20, 2014
Week of March 17

March 20
China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. invests $215 Million in Silicon Valley mobile messaging startup TangoMe Inc.

March 19
Big Data startup Platfora Raises $38 Million to help Enterprises win in the Fact-Based Economy

March 18
Big Data startup Cloudera raises $160 Million from T. Rowe Price, Google Ventures, MSD Capital and several other Top-Tier Institutional Investors


February 2014

Last updated on February 21, 2014

The Facebook acquisition of WhatsApp for $19B along with that of Rakuten to buy Viber Media for $900M had increased the investments into the TMT Sector to over $30B since January 1, 2014.

Week of February 17

February 19 
Facebook to buy WhatsApp
 for $19B
Week of February 10

February 14
Rakuten to acquire Viber Media for $900M

January 2014

Last updated on January 31, 2014

Since January 6, 2014, the Silicon Valley, the Silicon Alley and the global markets have witnessed a total influx of over $12B in announced investments into the market segments of cloud computing, mobile computing, enterprise mobile computing, x86 computing, home automation, artificial intelligence, and the industrial internet including IBM's investment of $1B into its Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive applications and services, $1.2B to expand IBM`s global cloud data centers footprint from 27 to 40 by end of 2014, and $2.3B to divestiture its x86 computing business, $1.54B of VMware to become a leader in the Enterprise Mobile Computing challenging the incumbent, BlackBerry, Google investment of $3.2B to acquire Nest Labs and sell its Motorola handset business to Lenovo for $2.91B, GE's acquisitions of approximately $1.06B of strategic assets from Thermo Fisher Scientific to boost to expand and accelerate the life sciences technologies and API Healthcare that gives health care providers real-time access to data for improving workforce management and patient care for an undisclosed amount.

Over a period of next 24 months, in US, the four national wireless carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile US) and satellite-TV operator Dish Network are estimated to spend at least $46 billion on spectrum in a series of auctions and smaller transactions, according to telecom analysts at New Street Research. In Canada, the auction of all spectrum blocks is estimated to generate $3 and $4 billion for the government. This acquisition of the spectrum will result into a massive buying of hardware, software, and professional services in the next 10 years...The growth of the tech sector will generate a lot of demand for the skilled workforce that could understand the dynamics of the interplay among the Cisco's Internet of Everything, GE's Industrial Internet, Big Data (IBM Watson, SAP HANA, Pivotal AX), Cloud Computing (IBM SoftLayer, AWS, Google), Mobile Computing, and Social Media, and how the IoE and Industrial Internet could usher the Vendors' Ecosystem Partners and Clients into new innovations, business architectures, operating models, risk management and HR practices.

At the same time, all the current and projected investments are going to revive the tech sector, in particular, and the economy, in general, and enable the customers to re-evaluate where do they want to spend their CAPEX and OPEX to offer differentiated products and services, and delightful customer experiences...

What does it mean for your business? More on it at my blogs on the Industrial Internet, the Internet of Everything and HANA. What do you think about the uptake in acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures? Please share your feedback in the comments section of the blogs.

Week of January 27

January 29
Google to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91B
Week of January 20
January 26
Google on the buying spree of Artifical Intelligence Firms
January 23
IBM's divestiture of its x86 Server Business to Lenovo Group for $2.3B
January 22
Global Leader in Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure, VMware, invests $1.54B into Mobile Computing
January 21
GE's new venture into the Industrial Internet - Acquisition of API Healthcare
Week of January 13
January 16
IBM's new investment 
of $1.2B into the Global Cloud Data Centers Footprint
January 13
Google's new venture 
of $3.2B into the Internet of Everything - Connected Homes
Week of January 6
January 9
IBM investment of $1B into its new business unit, the Watson Group, to capitalize on Big Data
January 6
GE to expand in Life Sciences Technologies with the acquisition of strategic assets from Thermo Fisher Scientific for over $1B