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Markets are strong, but big startup M&A deals just aren’t happening
Public markets are riding high, and many big tech acquirers are flush with cash. However, it’s a very dull year for big acquisitions of private technology companies. The unicorn M&A scene…
VCs determined to replace your job keep AI’s funding surge rolling in Q2
These are good times for AI entrepreneurs. Venture, corporate and seed investors have put an estimated $3.6 billion into AI and machine learning companies this year, according to Crunchbase data.…
Underscoring the ongoing market demand for security services amid a growing threat of cyber breaches and malicious hacking among businesses that are moving to cloud-based infrastructures, Cisco announced it has acquired…
AppDynamics update pinpoints performance issues inside Docker containers
AppDynamics released an update today with a nod toward the growing trend of containerization. The company, which was purchased by Cisco earlier this year for $3.7 billion, wants to help…
Cisco: IP traffic shoots up to 3 zettabytes by 2021, video will be 80% of it
The revolution will be televised… over the internet. By 2021, 82 percent of all consumer IP traffic will be video, and that growth will be driven by a boon in…
Crunch Report | Twitter’s new NFL deal
Twitter’s new NFL Deal, Verizon wins a $3.1 billion bid for Straight Path, Cisco buys Mindmeld and the Apple Watch could save your life. All this on Crunch Report.
Cisco scoops up yet another cloud company, acquiring SD-WAN startup Viptela for $610M
Cisco has been rather acquisitive in recent years, buying 19 companies since 2015; today it announced it was acquiring cloud-based SD-WAN vendor Viptela for $610 million in cash. Viptela was…
There are no hackers anymore — now it’s all about the spies we in the intelligence and security communities are trying to stop. The “insiders” have known this for some…
A year after Jasper acquisition Cisco expands the platform
Just over a year ago Cisco bought Jasper Technologies for $1.4 billion, and with that transaction, created the company’s IoT cloud business. This week, Cisco is making a series of announcements…
Ex-Googler (and Cisco’s newest board member) Amy Chang on her leap into startups
Wednesday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, venture capitalist Aileen Lee took the stage to interview Amy Chang, a former eBay product manager turned head of Google Analytics turned…
Nine months ago, Kansas City, Missouri, announced that it would be investing $15 million in a public-private partnership with Cisco to make a two-mile streetcar corridor smart — like, Internet…
Build bridges instead of walls
We are a nation of immigrants, and we must not forget that is a key reason this country has been so successful. The Immigration Act of 1965, which re-oriented U.S.…
Crunch Report | AppDynamics Acquired for $3.7 Billion
Cisco acquires AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, Facebook launches a Snapchat story clone in its app in Ireland, Amazon owns more of its shipping logistics, Apple isnt giving up on India,…
What the AppDynamics sale could mean for other tech IPO candidates
As the first planned public offering of 2017, AppDynamics was supposed to be a bellwether for other upcoming tech IPOs. If it went public and performed well, the “IPO window”…
When Cisco bought AppDynamics last night for $3.7 billion, it was initially a bit of a shocker, partly because of the timing, just days before the startup was scheduled to…
Why the $3.7 billion AppDynamics acquisition happened right before IPO
Applications management company AppDynamics was just wrapping up the final touches on its initial public offering when it learned that Cisco was interested in discussing a potential deal. Preliminary talks were abandoned…
Cisco said today that it would acquire AppDynamics, which helps companies monitor application performance, for a whopping $3.7 billion. And now, it would seem that AppDynamics’ long-awaited IPO (this week!)…
Cisco debuts its own smart whiteboard priced to compete with the Google Jamboard
If you haven’t been following the enterprise space of late, you may well have missed the memo that collaborative white boards are the hot newness. Microsoft has one and Google…
Trump hails Uber’s Kalanick and rockets SpaceX’s Musk to positions on Strategic and Policy Forum
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum has picked up two of the highest-flying and hardest-driving executives in the tech industry with the addition of Uber Technologies’ Travis Kalanick…
Cisco strengthens Spark meetings management with Worklife acquisition
Cisco announced today that it was acquiring Worklife, a member of the Y Combinator winter 2015 class, for an undisclosed sum. Worklife was founded with the idea of improving online meetings, something…
Cisco and Fortinet say vulnerabilities disclosed in ‘NSA hack’ are legit
A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers dumped data online this weekend that it claimed to have stolen from the Equation Group, a hacking team widely believed to be associated…
Cisco confirms it will cut up to 5,500 jobs, or 7% of its global workforce
We caught wind earlier this week that Cisco was planning a major cost-cutting operation to reduce its costs by around 15% throughout the month. It looks like the first stage…
Sources: Cisco planning 15 percent cost reduction this month
Sources are telling TechCrunch that Cisco is planning a significant cost reduction this week, which could involve budget cuts and layoffs. We’ve been hearing that the reductions will be announced on…
How fog computing pushes IoT intelligence to the edge
As the Internet of Things evolves into the Internet of Everything and expands its reach into virtually every domain, high-speed data processing, analytics and shorter response times are becoming more…
IBM and Cisco team up on enterprise collaboration to stave off rivals like Slack and Microsoft
Earlier this month, IBM and Cisco announced they would work together to integrate IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology into edge routers from Cisco, and today the two IT giants are deepening their partnership again,…
Cisco to acquire API-based app security startup CloudLock for $293M
Twilio isn’t the only company banking on API-based services as the way forward for enterprises. Today, Cisco announced it plans to pay $293 million in a mix of cash and equity…
As Symantec flexes its muscle in security, who will step up to the challenge?
As the security market shakes up in more ways than one, who wins, who struggles and who will get acquired next?
Apple’s latest foray into the enterprise involves deeper integration with Cisco
Lost in the hubbub of today’s two hour-plus Apple WWDC keynote was an announcement of deep integration between Apple and Cisco in the upcoming release of iOS 10 — yes,…
IBM and Cisco ink IoT deal integrating Watson AI into Cisco edge routers
IBM has been giving a push both to its Watson artificial intelligence and Internet of Things businesses as part of its bigger strategy to grow new streams of revenue to offset declines in older ones. Today…
Placemeter helps businesses and municipalities measure what’s happening in front of their stores, on their streets and in their parks. In its first iteration, the service, which relies on real-time…
