Top mergers and acquisitions activity in 2012
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Company |
Purchased |
Gains |
Terms |
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Acronis |
GroupLogic |
Consolidation move to ensure secure enterprise file access, sharing and syncing. |
Undisclosed |
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Apple |
AuthenTec |
Increase market share and add security technology to its iPhones as mobile payments become more prominent. |
$356 million |
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Cisco |
Lightwire |
Will allow Cisco to deliver high-speed networks with the next generation of optical connectivity. |
$271 million |
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Video software and content security solution. |
$5 billion |
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Provides network data analysis and reporting software technology. |
Undisclosed |
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Will help Cisco build distributed cloud infrastructure that ties into its own Open Networking Environment. |
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ThinkSmart |
Enhance the wireless network infrastructure by providing location analytics. |
Undisclosed |
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Dell |
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Database and IT management software. |
$2.4 billion |
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Unified threat management products and a customer base of more than 300,000 globally. |
Undisclosed |
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"Real-time web session and behavioral analysis" for banking, e-commerce and government customers. |
Undisclosed |
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VirusTotal |
Users can input suspect URLs to scan websites for malware threats. |
Undisclosed |
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Tests and simulates how networks, applications and data centers would respond to a cyber attack. |
$160 million |
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Juniper Networks |
Mykonos Software |
Tools and services to secure websites and web applications against hackers. |
$80 million |
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Continued expansion into the cyber security market with technology to detect advanced and targeted malware. |
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Microsoft |
PhoneFactor |
Stronger authentication for cloud- and application-based services. |
Undisclosed |
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Expand in cloud computing. |
$1.9 billion |
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Software-defined networking (SDN) technology to converge network and storage traffic off host servers into Xsigo switching hardware. |
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Broadens its reach into mobile-device with cloud-based mobile risk management technology. |
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Sophos |
Dialogs Software |
Broadens mobile security. |
Undisclosed |
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Stratus Technologies |
Marathon |
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Undisclosed |
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Symantec |
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Lets enterprises distribute and control applications, and protect the corporate data contained within them. |
Undisclosed |
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LiveOffice |
Cloud-based archiving for on-premise, cloud or hybrid delivery of Symantec solutions. |
$115 million |
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Toshiba TEC |
IBM's Retail Store |
Retail point-of-sale solutions worldwide. |
$850 million |
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Trustwave |
M86 Security |
Web and email security technology. |
Undisclosed |
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Ad network protection; products that enable the detection and removal of web-based malware and malicious online ads. |
Undisclosed |
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Veracode |
Marvin Mobile |
Detects vulnerabilities in the mobile app development process. |
Undisclosed |
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VMware |
Nicira |
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$1.26 billion |
