Acquisitions - The Stack

OpenAI buys developer collaboration tool Multi; promptly sunsets its product. What's the big idea?

Multi had recently touted the ability to "work in teammates’ apps like Xcode and Terminal as though they’re open on your computer"

Joe Fay June 25, 2024

DataStax

LLMs

News

DataStax snaps up Langchain-democratiser Langflow

"You have to chain user input, system prompts, and DB data to feed the LLM and then lots of processing to deliver that magic AI agent experience to the user"

The Stack April 04, 2024

Swiss Re buys Fathom, flood data specialist and The Stack's inaugural Tech for Good award winner

Globally, natural catastrophes caused $100 billion in insured losses this year alone, with “at least” $12 billion of these total insured losses attributed to flood-related events.

Edward Targett December 14, 2023

Cisco

Spunk

News

Cisco’s Splunk acquisition is risky as peers jostle, bills mount, users eye open source opportunities

Splunk has a big target on its back and both established application performance monitoring rivals and upstarts are nipping at its heels.

Edward Targett September 22, 2023

IBM's $4.6 billion Apptio deal shows how hot FinOps has got

IBM

Cloud

News

IBM's $4.6 billion Apptio deal shows how hot FinOps has got

IT spend management specialist Apptio recently updated its "Cloudability" FinOps suite as CIOs tighten belts

Azania Imtiaz Patel June 26, 2023

Nuance is taking ChatGPT to the contact centre: Redmond's buyout looks canny

Nuance is taking ChatGPT to the contact centre: Redmond's buyout looks canny

Voice Assistant, can you say ‘Kismet’? Turns out that when Microsoft completed its deal to buy Nuance Communications a little over a year ago for about $19.7 billion, the purchase may have been better than it anticipated at the time. Either that or part of a grand plan, because...

Martin Veitch March 16, 2023