Redwood Shores-based Imperva, which develops cybersecurity software, has acquired Arlington, Virginia-based Distil Networks, the companies said on Tuesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Distil Networks was venture...

Sunnyvale-based CrowdStrike, which develops artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity software, has set its IPO pricing range. The company said on Wednesday that it looking to sell 18,000,000 shares of its common stock at between $19.00 a...

Sunnyvale-based Crowdstrike, the cloud security software developer led by George Kurtz, has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing on Tuesday afternoon that it is looking to debut its IPO on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as CRWD. The IPO is...

San Francisco-based Salesforce said on Wednesday that it has acquired MapAnything, a developer of location-based mapping software. MapAnything is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. MapAnything's software is based on Salesforce, and provide...

Intel said on Tuesday that it has acquired Omnitek, a developer and vision FPGA intellectual property (IP), used for vision and artificial intelligence processing. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Omnitek is based in...

San Francisco-based Polymorph Labs, an ad technology and ad server developer, has been acquired by Walmart, Walmart announced last week. Financial details of the buy were not annoucned. Walmart said the buy will help it boost its advertisin...

Menlo Park-based ClearStory Data, a software company developing products for managing complex and unstructured data, has been acquired by Irvine, California-based Alteryx. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. ClearStory Data was v...

San Francisco-based Uber announced very late Monday evening that it has acquired United Arab Emirates-based Careem, the operator of a ride hailing service in the Middle East, in a deal worth $3.1 billion. According to Uber, Careem will beco...

San Francisco-based dating app developer Zoosk has been acquired by dating giant Spark Networks, the two companies said late Thursday. Spark said it will pay $255M in a combination of cash and stock for Zoosk, split between $150M in stock ...

San Francisco-based Lyft filed for an IPO on Monday, saying in a filing that it is looking to more than $2.4 billion in a public offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as LYFT. According to Lyft, it is currently estimating an IPO price...

San Francisco-based Atlassian Corporation Plc has acquired Georgetown, Texas-based AgileCraft, a developer of software used to manage the Agile software development process, in a deal worth $166M, the companies said Monday afternoon. Accord...

Santa Clara-based NVIDIA said on Monday morning that it has acquired chip maker Mellanox, in a $6.9 billion deal. Mellanox makes chipsets used for high performance computing (HPC) interconnects. According to NVIDIA, it will pay $125 per sha...

San Francisco-based Airbnb said Thursday that it will acquire hotel booking app HotelTonight. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. HotelTonight was venture backed by Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, First Round Capital, Coatue Ma...

Cupertino-based Altia Systems, a developer of high resolution, multi-camera communications and conferencing systems, has been acquired by GN Audio, a developer of audio products for the call center market. According to the companies, GN Aud...

San Francisco-based Eero, the maker of a mesh, Wi-Fi networking system for the home, has been acquired by Seattle-based Amazon, the two companies said on Monday afternoon. The buy is the latest in Amazon purchasing its own hardware company,...

Mountain View-based Facebook has acquired GrokStyle, a developer of software which helped match photos of furniture with similar furniture available online. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Facebook said that GrokStyle's tea...

San Francisco-based BrightBytes, the developer of personalized learnng software for the education and school district market, has been acquired by Microsoft. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. According to Microsoft, BrightBytes...

San Francisco-based Twilio, which provides APIs and interfaces that allow developers to send and receive phone cals, texts, and offer up other cloud-based communications services, has completed its acquisition of email delivery provider Sen...

San Francisco-based Dropbox announced today that it has acquired e-signature provider HelloSign, in a deal worth $230M in cash. According to Dropbox, HelloSign currently has more than 80,000 customers of its e-signature and document workflo...

San Francisco- and Istanbul, Turkey-based Citus Data, which develops open source software for managing PostgreSQL, has been acquired by Microsoft, the companies said on Thursday. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Citus Data ...

San Francisco-based SpotOn, SpotOn announced this morning that it has acquired Los Angeles-based Lifeyo, a developer of website development software aimed at small and medium-sized merchants. Financial details of the buy were not announced....

Livermore, California- and Fort Worth, Texas-based VaaS International Holdings (VaaS), a developer of license plate readers for the law enforcement industry, has been acquired by Motorola Solutions, Motorola Solutions said on Monday. Accord...

Superpod, a startup that develops a service which lets users ask questions and get answers from experts, has been acquired by Google, according to multiple reports, in a deal worth approximately $60M. Exact arrangements behind the deal, whi...

Redwood City- and Hilden, Germany-based QIAGEN N.V. said late Sunday evening that it has acquired N-of-One, a provider of molecular decision support software and service and provider of clinical interpretation services for complex genomic d...

San Jose-based Deep Space Industries, which was founded as an asteroid mining venture but is now focused on developing its own space propulsion technology, said on Wednesday that it has been acquired by Bradford Space, a space systems manuf...

Santa Rosa-based Millipede Medical, which makes transcatheter annuioplasty rings for treating mitral regurgitation, has been acquired by Boston Scientific, in a deal worth $325M, with a possible earnout of $125M more. Boston Scientific was ...

San Francisco-based Spigit, which develops social collaboration and "innovation management" software for the enterprise market, has been acquired by Planview, a developer of work and resource management software. Financial terms of the buy ...

San Francisco-based Zynga has acquired Helsinki-based mobile game developer Small Giant Games, the creator of the popular games Empires & Puzzles, Zynga said on Thursday afternoon, in a deal worth $560M. The deal is split between $330M in c...

Cisco announced its acquisition of optical photonics developer Luxtera on Tuesday morning, saying it will pay $660M in cash and assumed equity options for Luxtera. Luxtera develops optical semiconductors used in the high speed networking ma...

San Francisco-based brand experience design firm Cibo has been acquired by Dallas-based project202, a provider of user experience, software development, marketing, and other services. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced....

Milpitas-based touch screen manufacturer Elo Touch Solutions has been acquired by private equity investor Crestview, according to The Gores Group, the prior private equity owner of Elo Touch. Financial terms of the acquisition were not anno...

San Francisco-based affiliate link automation software provider VigLink has been acquired by Boulder, Colorado-based programmatic advertising exchange operator Sovrn Holdings. VigLink is a developer of software which automatically inserted ...

San Francisco-based ride hailing service aUber has confidentially filed for an IPO, joining fellow on-demand ride service Lyft in heading for the public markets. According to the WSJ, citing "people familiar with the matter", Uber has filed...

Emeryville-based Art.com, an online retailer of framed art, canvasas, and decor, has been acquired by Walmart, Walmart announced on Friday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Walmart said that it plans to operate the a...

San Francisco-based Lyft has filed confidential drafts for an initial public offering (IPO) with the SEC, the company said on Thursday, as it looks to head to the public markets. Details on the IPO size and other details have not yet been r...

Propeller Health, a developer of digital health products for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, which has offices in San Francisco, has been acquired by ResMed, in a deal worth $225M. According to ResMed,...

Ridesharing giant Uber is considering a major deal to buy either on-demand scooter rental service Bird or Lime, according to a report this morning. According to The Information, Uber has been holding talks with both Bird and Lime about acqu...

San Jose-based A10 Networks, which develops Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) threat protection, application delivery, and other networking hardware, is looking to sell the company to a buyer, according to a report on Friday. According t...

Santa Cruz-based Plantronics, which makes headsets, voice, and other products, and fellow computer accessory maker Logitech said late Sunday that the two are no longer in ongoing discussions over an acquisition. The two had been reported to...

Santa Clara-based Airspan Networks, which develops 4G LTE and 5G wireless backhaul and networking equipment, said on Tuesday that it has acquired Mimosa Networks. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to Airspan...

San Mateo-based Jelli, a developer of technology for programmatic advertising on radio, has been acquired by New York-based broadcaster iHeartMedia, the two said this week. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Jelli was ...

Walnut Creek-based Alpine SG (ASG), which is owned by private equity investor Alpine Investors, has acquired Colorado-based e-Courier Software, a developer of enterprise software for "last-mile" couriers. Financial terms of the buy wer enot...

Palo Alto-based VMware said this morning that it has acquired Heptio, which develops software for the Kubernetes cloud environment. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to VMware, the deal will help it engage t...

Mountain View-based Symantec said on Monday that it has acquired Appthority, a developer of mobile application security software. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. Appthority becomes part of Symantec's endpoint security busines...

A number of assets of Airware, the defunct, San Francisco developer of commercial drone software, have gone to French commercial drone supplier Delair. Delair said it acquired "key" assets of Airware including its software, an engineering a...

San Francisco-based Cloudflare has hired an investment banker to lead its IPO, according to a report from Reuters, which says Cloudflare has hired Goldman Sachs as the lead banker on an upcoming IPO. The report says that the IPO will value ...

San Francisco-based Unity Technologies said on Tuesday that it has acquired Digital Monarch Media, a Canadian company which uses Unity to build "virtual cinematography" for feature films. Financial details of teh buy were not announced. Acc...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle has acquired San Franciso-based DataFox, a developer of cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data software. Financial terms of the acquisition wre not announced. Oracle says that DataFox's customers include G...

Sunnyvale-based CrowdStrike, which develops cybersecurity software, has hired an IPO banker and is eyeing an IPO before the end of the year, according to a report from Reuters. According to the report, CrowdStrike has hired Goldman Sachs to...

Santa Clara-based Intel has sold the rest of a flash memory joint venture it had set up in 2006 with Micron. Micron said Thursday that it is buying the rest of IM Flash Technologies in a deal worth $1.5 billion in cash plus assumption of ab...

San Mateo-based Cloud Lending, a developer of lending and leasing software, is now offiially part of e-banking software developer Q2 Holdings, Q2 said this morning. Q2 is based in Austin, Texas, and had announced the acquisition back in Aug...

San Francisco-based telephony API provider Twilio said Monday afternoon that it has acquired Sendgrid, in a deal worth $2 billion in stock, the companies announced late Monday afternoon. Sendgrid offers up API-based email services, used by ...

San Francisco-based AllTrails, which operates an online guide to trails and other outdoors areas, has been acquired by private equity investor Spectrum Equity. The deal was worth $75M. According to Spectrum Equity, the new investment will g...

Berkeley-based Asaii, which develops software to help discover, track, and manage music artists and talent--and uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to attempt to identify trending and emerging artists--has been acquired by Cup...

San Francisco-based Rentlytics, which develops business intelligence and performance analytics software for the multi-family real estate industry, has been acquired for $57M by RealPage. RealPage is based in Richardson, Texas, and also deve...

Sunnyvale-based LinkedIn said on Monday that it ha acquired Glint, a developer of employee engagement software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Glint is based in Redwood City, and also has offices in London and Lincoln, Nebra...

San Jose-based Cisco said on Monday that it completed its acquisition of Michigan's Duo Security. The deal had been announced in August, and was worth $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards. Duo develops unified access and multi-fa...

Dublin, California-based Saba Software, which develops talent development software, said on Monday that it has acquired Lumesse, a European provider of software for the talent acquisition, talent management, and learning area. Financial det...

San Mateo-based survey software developer SurveyMonkey priced its IPO last night at $12.00 per share, selling 15,000,000 shares of its common stock in the offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. SurveyMonkey starts trading this morning...

Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies has acquired ACEA Biosciences, a developer of analytical instruments, systems, and software used in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, along with academia. The two companies announced the acqui...

Oakland-based BIManywhere, a developer of BIM (Building Information Management) software for the construction and facilities management market, has been acquired by Procore, a developer of construction management software. Financial details...

Two, Bay Area private equity investors--Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake--are hoping to put one of their portfolio companies back on the public markets. Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has filed for an IPO, ...

Adobe announced on Thursday afternoon that it has acquired San Mateo-based Marketo, which develops marketing software, in a deal worth $4.75 billion. The deal is expected to close in Q4. Adobe said it will add Marketo to its Adobe Experienc...

San Jose-based PayPal said this morning that it has completed its $2.2 billion acquisition of iZettle, a developer of point-of-sale products for small businesses. iZettle was based in Sweden. PayPal said the acquisition will help expand its...

San Francisco-based ticketing and event management software developer Eventbrite priced its IPO last night, saying that it will sell 10,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at $23.00 per share. The company starts trading this morning ...

Sunnyvale-based NetApp has acquired Seattle-based StackPointCloud, a company developing software for the Kubernetes market. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. NetApp said that it would add StackPointCloud CEO Matt Bald...

San Francisco-based Lobe, a developer of deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) software tools, has been acquired by Microsoft. Financial details of the deal were not announced. According to Microsoft, it is acquiring Lobe to boost ...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Genstar Capital said on Tuesday that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, Accruent, to publicly held Fortive Corporation, in a deal worth $2.0 billion in cash. Accruent is a developer of ph...

San Francisco-based Zendesk announced on Monday afternoon that it has acquired FutureSimple, the company behind the Base sales force automation software. Financial details of that acquisition were not annoucned. Base, which was based in Mou...

San Rafael-based Machine Box, which develops machine learning and artificial intelligence software, has been acquired by Costa Mesa, California-based Veritone. Veritone said on Monday that the deal was worth approximately $5.0M, including ...

San Francisco-based EventBrite, which operates an online event ticketing service, set its estimated intial public offering range on Friday, saying it is looking to sell 10,000,000 shares of its common stock at between $19.00 to $21.00 per s...

Santa Clara-based DataDirect Networks has completed its acquisition of Tintri, the bankrupt flash data storage developer, in a deal worth $60M, the company said this week. According to DDN, the acquisition came after an "extensive" bidding ...

San Francisco-based Lithium Technologies announced this morning that it has merged with Austin-based Spredfast, a developer of customer engagement software. Financial details of the merger were not announced. According to the companies, the...

Modesto-based CaseloadPRO, a developer of software that is used by probation and parole departmenst to manage their services, has been acquired by Plano, Texas-based Tyler Technologies. Financial details of the acquisition were not announce...

Alameda-based Penumbra, a publicly traded developer of medical devices, said today that it has acquired the controlling interest in its joint venture, MVI Health. Penumbra said it paid $20M in upfront cash to increase its ownership percenta...

San Francisco-based software developer Atlassian announced this morning that it has acquired OpsGenie, a developer of software for responding to IT service disruptions. The deal was worth $295M, split between $259M in cash and the remainder...

San Mateo-based SurveyMonkey has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing on Wednesday that it is looking to raise up to $100M in an IPO the NASDAQ Global Select Market as SVMK. The company's IPO is being underwritten by J.P. Morgan Securities ...

Cupertino-based Apple has acquired a developer of holographic technology for use in augmented reality lenses, the company disclosed on Wednesday. According to a terse statement, Apple confirmed that it is buying Longmont, Colorado-based Ako...

Redwood City-based Amobee said this week that it has completed its acquisition of Videology, which develops software for the TV and video advertising market. Amobee paid $100M for Videology. Amobee said that Scott Ferber, the founder, Chair...

San Jose-based Broadcom said this morning that it has received approval of the company's proposed acquisition of CA Technologies, after the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. Bro...

San Francisco-based Eventbrite, a developer of software helped to manage live events, sell tickets, and manage other aspects of those events, has filed for an IPO. According to the company's S-1 filing, Eventbrite is looking to raise up to ...

Santa Clara-based Centrify, which develops identity and access management software, has been acquired by San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo. The deal was announced last week. Financial details of the acquisition were no...

Santa Clara-based Agilent said late Friday that it has completed its acquisition of South Korean company Young In Scientific Co. Ltd. and its affiliates, in an asset acquisition deal. YI Scientific is a distributor of analytical and scienti...

Intel said on Thursday that it has acquired Vertex.AI, which develops the open source PlaidML machine learning software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Vertex.AI said it has become part of Intel's Artificial Intellig...

Santa Rosa-based Keysight Technologies said on Monday that it has acquired Thales Calibration Services, an Australian subsidiary of Thales Group. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Keysight, the deal will ma...

Redwood Shores-based Imperva said on Monday afternoon that it has completed its acquisition of runtime application self-protection software developer Prevoty. Imperva had announced the acquisition in July. Imperva paid $140M in cash for Pre...

Facebook said on Monday afternoon that it has acquired the team and technology--but not the company itself--from Vidpresso. Vidpresso develops software to make video more interactive for broadcasters. Financial terms of the acquisition were...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo said on Monday that it has acquired Houston-based Quorum Software, which develops software for the oil and gas industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Quorum p...

San Mateo-based Cloud Lending has been acquired by Austin-based e-banking software developer Q2 Holdings. Q2 is a developer of e-banking software, and Cloud Lending develops integrated end-to-end lending and leasing platform. Financial deta...

San Jose-based Nutanix, a developer of enterprise cloud computing software, said late Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Mainframe2 (Frame), a developer of cloud-based, Windows desktop and application delivery software. Financial detail...

San Jose-based Cisco announced on Thursday morning that it has acquired Duo Security, a developer of multi-factor authentication and unified access software. Cisco said it will pay $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity for Duo Security. ...

San Francisco-based DocuSign, the provider of electronic signature software, said on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquired SpringCM, a provider of cloud-based document generation and contract lifecycle management software. DocuSign said it...

Online marketplace Care.com, which helps people find child and senior care, said this morning that it has acquired three different Bay Area companies to bolster its services. According to Care.com, it has acquired Town + County, Galore, and...

Redwood Shores-based Imperva said on Thursday that it has acquired Los Angeles-based DevOps security software developer Prevoty. Imperva said it would pay $140M in cash for Prevoty, subject to potential working capital and other adjustment...

Santa Clara-based Gigamon said on Tuesday that it has acquired ICEBRG, a security company based in Seattle. Financial details of the buy were not announced. ICEBRG's software provided network visibility and threat correlation, used for dete...

Richmond, California-based Sangamo Therapeutics, which is developing gene therapy, genome editing, gene regulation, and other technology, has acquired French company TxCell, Sangamo announced onMonday. Sangamo will pay approximately $84M fo...

San Francisco-based Niantic, the maker of Pokemon Go, said this morning that it has acquired videogame maker Seismic Games. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Seismic was founded in 2011, and has received backing from...

Santa Clara-based Intel announced on Thursday that it has acquired eASIC, a developer of programmable Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) hardware. Financial details of the deal wre not announced. According to Intel, the deal wil...

Santa Clara-based Sonel Test & Measurement, which is a supplier of electrical instrumentation used for measurements in the electrical and telecommunications market, has acquired PowerCET Corporation, a supplier of rental electrical instrum...

Los Altos-based cloud security software developer Netskope announced today that it has acquired Sift Security, a developer of cloud infrastructure security tools. Financial details of the acquisition, which closed in June, were not announc...

San Mateo-based AlienVault, a developer of unified cyberseurity management software, has been acquired by AT&T, AT&T said on Tuesday. Financial details of the buy were not announced. AlienVault was venture backed by Intel Capital, Kleiner P...

Redwood City-based Electronic Arts EA announced on Monday afternoon that it has acquired Pasadena-based Industrial Toys, the video game company founded by former Bungie Studios co-founder Alex Seropian. Financial details of the acquisition ...

Santa Clara-based Marvell Technology Group, the publicly traded developer of semiconductors, said Friday that it has completed its acquisition of Cavium. The acquisition deal was worth approximately $6 billion. As part of the acquisition, M...

San Rafael-based Autodesk announced this morning that it is acquiring Salem, Massachusetts-based Assembly Systems, a developer of construction software. Financial details of the cash-and-stock deal were not announced. Assemble Systems deve...

SolarEdge, an Israeli developer of smart energy, photovoltaic, and other solar energy products which has its U.S. offices in Fremont, California, said this week that it has acquired Gamatronic Electronics Ltd.. Gamatronics is a develope rof...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo said this week that it has completed its acquisition of security information and event management (SIEM) software developer LogRythm Financial details of the buy, which make Thoma Bra...

Mountain View-based Facebook has acquired UK-based Bloomsbury AI, a developer of natural language processing technology, for $30M, according to Facebook. Facebook said Bloomsbury's expertise will help it in its efforts in the natural langua...

San Francisco-based on-demand ridesharing service Lyft said on Monday that it has agreed to acquired bike sharing network Motivate, which it says is the biggest bike sharing operator in North America. Financial terms of the buy were not ann...

San Carlos-based personal genomics company Helix announced today that it has acquired HumanCode, a Denver-based company which was one of its partners. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. As part of the acquisition, Heli...

Fresno, California-based OnFarm Systems, a provider of software and analytics tools for farmers, using the Internet-of-Things, has been acquired by Denver, Colorado-based SWIIM. SWIIM develops agtech and farm water management technology. Fi...

Alameda-based Wind River, the developer of embedded operating system software, is now officially owned by private equity investor TPG Capital, TPG Capital said Tuesday. Financial details of the deal, which was announced in April, have not b...

Redwood City-based Elastic Beam, which develops software for securing application programming interfaces (APIs), has been acquired by Ping Identity, a developer of software used for enterprise identity management. Financial details of the a...

Foster City-based EdgiLife, the owner of the brand Love With Food, a provider of consumer insights and data analytics for the CPG market, has been acquired by Los Angeles-based snack delivery startup SnackNation. Financial terms of the buy ...

San Francisco-based Eidos Therapeutics, a clinical stage biopharaceuticals firm focused on diseases caused by transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (ATTR), priced its IPO last night, saying it will sell 6,250,000 shares of its common stock at $17...

San Mateo-based SurveyMonkey said on Monday that it has filed a confidential submission of a draft registration statement for a proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO) with the SEC. Details on the IPO, and contents of that registration state...

San Francisco-based Genstar Capital said this morning that it has acquired Drillinginfo, whih develops software for the oil and gas industry. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. According to Genstar Capital, it will become the n...

Mountain View-based Mi3 Security, a devleoper of application security tools, has been acquired by mobile device security software developer Zimperium. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. Zimperium said Mi3's RECON platform into...

Sunnyvale-based Bloom Energy, which develops on-site, fuel cell-based power generation systems, has filed for an IPO. The company said in its S-1 filing that it looking to raised up to $100M in its IPO, and has filed to trade as BE on the N...

Pleasanton-based Workday announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire Palo Alto-based Adaptive Insights, in a deal worth approximately $1.55 billion. Workday is a developer of cloud software used for finance and human resources admi...

Newark, California-based ITRenew, a provider of data center hardware lifecycle management technology, said today that it has acquired Splitted-Desktop Systems SAS (SDS), a French design and engineering firm focused on open hardware compute ...

San Francisco-based Splunk announced this morning that it has acquired DevOps incident management software developer VictorOps, in a deal worth approximately $120M. Splunk said the deal is split between cash and Splunk securities. VictorOps...

Pleasanton-based Workday announced on Friday that it has acquired Rallyteam, a developer of machine learning tools. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Rallyteam's machine learning software was used to help match their employee...

Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software said this week that it has acquired Scribe Software, a developer of cloud-based integration software, used to connect software-as-a-service applications. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced...

Davis, California-based Maintenance Connection, a developer of computerized maintenance management software, has been acquired by Texas-based Accruent. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Accruent said the buy will help...

San Jose-based Astreya, an IT solutions provider, has acquired HireMore, a provider of candidate sourcing and talent engagement technology. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Edwin Miller is the CEO of Astreya....

Foster City-based Qualys, a developer of cloud-based security and compliance software, said yesterday that it has entered into a non-binding, letter of intent to acquire Second Front Systems, a developer of cybersecurity products for the U....

San Francisco-based Github, a provider of online source code management services, has been acquired by Microsoft, in a deal worth $7.5 billion in stock. According to Microsoft, the acquisition will advance Microsoft services with new audien...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo said last week that it has acquired LogRhythm, a developer of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Thoma Bravo s...

San Francisco-based game publisher Fig said today that it has acquired UK-based blockchain company Ownage, Ltd. Fig is the publisher of games Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, Phoenix Point and Wasteland 3. According to Fig, the team at Owna...

Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies has acquired the assets of Ultra Scientific, a provider of chemical standards and certified reference materials, the company said on Wednesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. ...

Oakland-based Pandora sdaid today that it has acquired AdsWizz, a developer of digital audio advertising technology. Pandora said it paid $66.3M in cash plus 9.9 million shares of Pandora common stock for AdWizz, plus another $5M in cash ba...

San Francisco-based prenatal DNA screening startup Counsyl has been acquired by Salt Lake City, Utah-based Myriad Genetics, which develops molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine products, in a deal worth $375M. Myriad Gentics said ...

San Jose-based Adobe said on Monday that it has acquired Magento Commerce, a developer of e-commerce software, for $1.68 billion, the two said on Monday. According to the two, the Magneto Commerce Cloud will be integrated into Adobe's Exper...

Menlo Park-based private equity investor Accel-KKR has acquired SageWorks, a developer of financial software and information products for U.S. financial institutions, the companies said on Friday. Financial details of the buy were not annou...

Berkeley-based Semantic Machines, a startup which is developing conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools, has been acquired by Microsoft, Microsoft announced over the weekend. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced...

San Jose-based PayPal said on Thursday that it has acquired Swedish point-of-sale platform developer iZettle, in a deal worth $2.2 billion in cash. PayPal said it will use the acquisition of iZettle to expand its in-store presence. iZettle...

Redwood City-based EAT Club, which provides delivery of food to employees of high tech and other companies, announced today that it has acquired Farm Hill and its personal meal business. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Farm...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle said on Wednesday that it has acquired a href="http://www.datascience.com">DataScience.com, a developer of data science software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Oracle said it will add ...

Palo Alto-based Cask Data, a developer of open source big data software, has been acquired by Google, and will become part of the Google Cloud. The acquisition was announced by Cask earlier this week. Financial details of the buy were not a...

San Jose-based TrellisSoft, a developer of software for business intelligence, has acquired Austin, Texas-based Vuevent. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Vuevent was backed by $1.4M in seed funding from Inizio Capital and an...

Mountain View-based Google said on Wednesday that it has acquired Velostrata, an Israeli company which develops enterprise cloud migration technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Google said Velostrata's team wi...

Mill Valley, California-based online job and recruiting site Glassdoor has been acquired by Japanese company Recruit Holdings, the two said on Tuesday, in a deal worth $1.2 billion in cash. According to Glassdoor, Recruit will offer its ser...

San Mateo-based SpaceTime Insight, which develops machine learning software used for the transportation, energy, and utility industry, has been acquired by Finland-based Nokia, the two companies announced this morning. Financial details of ...

San Francisco-based Salesforce announced on Wednesday that it has completed its $6.5 billion acquisition of MuleSoft. The deal had originally been announced in March. Salesforce said that MuleSoft's Anypoint PLatform becomes part of the Sal...

Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies said on Wednesday afternoon that it has acquired Geneohm, a privately held company developing software for laboratory management. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Geneohm was based in ...

Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies said on Wednesday afternoon that it has acquired Geneohm, a privately held company developing software for laboratory management. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Geneohm was based in ...

San Jose-based Cisco said Tuesday that it will acquire Los Altos-based Accompany, a company developing artificial intelligence software to help sales people find new prospects, and help in the selling process. Cisco said it will pay $270M i...

San Jose-based Cisco and private equity investor Permira said on Tuesday that a new company, created by Permira Funds, will acquire Cisco's Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) business. Financial details of the transaction wer...

San Francisco-based Marketo said on Monday that it has acquired Seattle-based Bizible, a developer of marketing performance management software. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. Marketo said the buys is its "largest acquisiti...

San Jose-based Adobe has acquired Uru, a developer of artificial intelligence and computer vision tools, the two said last week. Financial terms of the buy wer enot announced. Uru said it will work on Adobe Sensi, Adobe's group which is wor...

San Francisco-based Docusign, which develops e-signature software, priced its IPO last night at $29.00 per share, well above its initial $24.00 to $26.00 estimated IPO range. The offering raised $465M for the company. Docusign starts tradin...

Santa Clara-based Palo Alto Networks said on Tuesday that it has acquired Israeli cybersecurity company Secdo, a provider of endpoint detection and response (EDR) software. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. Secdo develops endp...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle said Tuesday that it has acquired Grapeshot, a developer of brand safety and pre-bid screening products for marketers. Grapeshot's products were used by brand advertisers to avoid unsafe content, and target break...

Sunnyvale-based Trimble appears to be in an acquisitive mood this week, announcing late Monday that it has acquired Viewpoint, a developer of construction management software, in an all cash deal worth $1.2 billion. Trimble acquired Viewpoi...

Sunnyvale-based Trimble has acquired Williamsburg, Virginia-based FabSuite, a developer of structural steel fabrication software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Trimble said the acquisition gives i...

San Francisco-based gaming accessory maker a href="http://www.razer.com">Razer said today that it has acquired Malaysian virtual currency firm MOL Global, in a deal worth $61M in cash. Razer already owned over 34 percent of MOL Global, havi...

San Francisco-based Pivotal Software priced its IPO late Thursday evening, saying it will sell 37,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at $15.00 per share. The company priced at the midpoint of its estimated initial public offering ra...

San Francisco-based Eventbrite said on Thursday that it has acquired Ticketea, a provider of ticketing services in the country of Spain. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Eventbright said the acquisition is the second...

Menlo Park-based Voicera, which develops artificial intelligence-driven virtual assistants for the enterprise market, has acquired mobile app developer Wrappup. Financial details of that at acquisition were not announced. Wrappup develops i...

San Francisco-based 6sense, which develops AI and machine learning tools used for account-based marketing, has acquired Los Altos-based ZenIQ, a developer of account-based marketing and sales orchestration software. Financial details of the...

Santa Clara-based Webyog, which develops database administration and management tools for MySQL, has been acquired by database software developer Idera, the two cmpanies announced this morning. Financial terms of the deal were not announced...

San Jose-based Verifone has been acquired by private equity investor Francisco Partners, in a deal worth $3.4 billion, the companies said late Monday. Francisco Partners said its investor group, which also included British Columbia Investme...

San Francisco-based Agile software development tools company Pivotal has set the estimated IPO range for its public offering, saying in a filing with the SEC this morning that it now hopes to offer up 37,000,000 shares of its common stock a...

San Francisco-based Uber said on Monday that it has acquired JUMP Bikes, which operates an electric, dockless bike sharing service in San Francisco. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Unconfirmed reports place the price at bet...

Scotts Valley-based Netflix is looking to acquired Los Angeles-based Regency Outdoor Advertising, according to a report on Friday. The report, from Reuters, says that Netflix has offered around $300M for Regency Outdoor, which owns a number...

Alameda-based embedded operating systems software Wind River, which is currently part of Intel, has been sold to private equity investor TPG, the company said on Tuesday. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. The company said tha...

Redwood City- and San Diego-based online crowdfunding site GoFundMe announced Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired Redding, California-based YouCaring, another online crowdfunding site. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announce...

Redwood CIty-based photo and personalized products provider Shutterfly said late Monday that it has closed on its acquisition of school photography company Lifetouch. Shutterfly paid $825M for Lifetouch. In conjunction with the acquisition ...

Private equity investor Francisco Partners announced this morning that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Bomgar, a developer of secure access software. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Bomgar, whcih is based in...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo said this morning that it has completed its majority investment in Nintex, a developer of workflow and content automation software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announ...

San Francisco-based Docusign has filed for an IPO, saying it is looking to raise $100M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as DOCU. The company, which develops electronic signature software, is led by CEO Daniel D. Springer. The IP...

San Francisco-based Particle announced this morning that it has acquired RedBear, a provider of IoT hardware development based in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. REdBear was founded in 2012, and specia...

Mountain View-based Google said this morning that it has acquired San Francisco-based Tenor, which operates an online GIF search and embedding site. FInancial terms of the buy were not announced. Google said the buy will help it easier to f...

Santa Clara-based Palo Alto Networks said on Monday that it has completed its $300M acquisition of Evident.io, which develops public cloud services infrastructure protection software. Palo Alto Networks paid $300M in cash for Evident.io. Th...

Pleasanton-based Unchained Labs, which provides life sciences software and tools, has raised $17M in a Series D funding, and acquired Rap.ID, which develops systems used in particle identification in biopharmaceutical development and qualit...

Mountain View-based storage and data management software developer Veritas said today that it has acquired fluid Operations AG, known as fluidOps, which develops software used to manage structure and unstructured data in the private, public...

San Francisco-based Pivotal, which develops Agile development software, has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing with the SEC on Friday that it is looking to raise up to $100M in its IPO. The company's IPO is being underwritten by Morgan St...

San Francisco-based private equity investor GI Partners has acquired a majority stake in two companies, and combined them into a single company. Austin, Texas-based Advanced Discovery, a provider of e-discovery software and services, said t...

San Francisco-based Salesforce said on Tuesday that it will acquire San Francisco-based MuleSoft, in a deal with an enterprise value of $6.5 billion. According to the companies, Salesforce will pay $36.00 in cash and 0.0711 shares of Salesf...

San Mateo-based subscription services provider Zuora has filed for an IPO, saying in an S-1 filing on Friday that it is hoping to raise up to $100M in its offering. The company has applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange as ZUO. The ...

Pleasanton-based Evident.io, a developer of cybersecurity and compliance automation software, has been acquired by Santa Clara-based Palo Alto Networks, in a deal worth $300M in cash. Palo Alto Networks said that Evident.io's co-founders, T...

Menlo Park-based Texture, a developer of a publishing platform for digital version of traditional magazines, has been acquired by Apple, the two companies said this week. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Texture was formerly k...

San Jose-based cloud security appliance developer Zscaler has bumped its estimated IPO pricing range, saying in a filing that it now hopes to sell 12,000,000 shares of its common stock at between $13.00 and $15.00 a share. The pricing range...

San Francisco-based Dropbox has set its estimated IPO range, saying in an amended S-1 filing this morning that it now expects to sell 36,000,000 shares of its common stock at between $16.00 and $18.00 per share. The company, led by CEO Andr...

San Jose-based Nutanix said early Monday morning that it is acquiring San Francisco-based Netsil, a developer of application discovery and management software. Financial details of the acquisition deal were not announced. Nutanix said it wi...

Santa Clara-based McAfee says on Thursday morning that it has acquired consumer VPN company TunneBear. Financial details of the buy were not announced. McAfee said it will use the acquisition to enhance its cybersecurity portfolio. TunnelB...

Mountain View-based Google is selling restaurant review website Zagat, to a new startup restaurant review company, The Infatuation. Financial details of the deal--first detailed by an interview in the New York Times--have not been announced...

TDK Corporation announced late Tuesday evening that it has acquired Berkeley-based Chirp Microsystems. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Chirp is a developer of ultrasonic, 3D sensing, MEMs sensors, used in smartphone...

San Jose-based eBay announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the Japanese business of Giosis, including Qoo10.jp. Financial details of the deal were not announced. According to eBay, as a result of the transaction, it will relinquish its i...

San Francisco-based Splunk said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Palo Alto-based Phantom Cyber Corporation, a developer of security orchestration and automation tools. The deal is worth approximately $350M in cash and stock. Phant...

San Francisco-based contact center solutions provider Genesys said today that it has acquired Galway, Ireland-based Altocloud Ltd., a provider of analytics software. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. Genesys says that Altocloud...

San Francisco-based Dropbox filed for its long awaited IPO on Friday, saying in a filing that it is looking to raised $500M in its IPO on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Dropbox has filed to trade as DBX. The company's IPO is being underwr...

Palo Alto-based Varian said on Thursday that it has acquired Evinance Innovation, a privately held developer of clinical decision support software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Evinance Innovation was based in Mo...

San Jose-based Propelics, a developer of mobile apps for the enterprise, has been acquired by Philadephia-based Anexinet Corporation, the two said on Wednesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Propelics was founded ...

San Jose-based Zscaler, which develops cloud security appliances, has filed for a $100M IPO, saying that it has applied to list on The Nasdaq Global Market as ZS. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co., BofA Me...

Mountain View-based Google has acquired Xively, a Boston-based division of LogMeIn, which develops a data management platform for the Internet-of-Things market. Financial details of the deal were not announced....

Redwood Shores-based Oracle said on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Zenedge, a developer of WAF (Web Application Firewall) and DDoS (Distribute Denial of Service) mitigation products. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. ...

Redwood City-based data center operator Equinix said this week that it has acquired Infomart Dallas, , one of the largest, Internet interconnect hubs in the U.S., in a a deal worth $800M. Infomart Dallas had been owned by ASB Real Estate In...

San Francisco-based Chalkup, a startup developing e-learning software for teachers, has been acquired by Microsoft, to help Microsoft bolster its Microsoft Education products, the two companies said this morning. Financial details of the ac...

Foster City-based Visa said late Thursday evening that it has acquired UK-based Fraedom, a provider of technology and services for the business-to-business payments area. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Visa said that Fraed...

Private equity investor Thomas H. Lee Partners said on Thursday that it is acquiring San Mateo-based Alfresco Software, which develops business process automation and content management software. Financial details of the acquisition were no...

San Francisco-based Solinea, which helps enterprises with cloud adoption, has been acquired by Los Angeles-based hybrid cloud operator Unitas Global. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. According to Unitas Global, the addition of...

San Jose-based CloudBees, which develops DevOps software, said Tuesday that it has acquired Codeship, a developer of software development tools. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Codeship--formerly known as Railsonfire--was b...

Sunnyvale-based Proofpoint, a developer of cybersecurity products, has acquired Wombat Security Technologies, a provider of services to help companies educate employees on phishing and other cybersecurity attacks. Proofpoint said it would p...

San Francisco-based IvyMark, a provider of software tools for running interior design businesses, has been acquired by Palo Alto-based Houzz, the two companies said on Tuesday. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Ivymark had of...

San Jose-based Datos IO, which develops backup and recovery software for NoSQL databases and other big data filesystems, has been acquired by Palo Alto-based Rubrik. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Datos IO was vent...

San Mateo-based Argyle Data, a startup that develops big data and machine learning security software, has been acquired by Mavenir, a developer of mobile network products. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Argyle Data...

San Jose-based Cisco said on Friday that it has completed its $1.9 billion acquisition of BroadSoft, paying $55 per share in cash for the firm. Broadsoft, which was formerly traded as BSFT on the NASDAQ, becomes part of Cisco's Unified Comm...

San Francisco-based CirrusOne, a provider of consulting services for the sales quoting and billing market, has been acquired by sales quoting software and services provider Simplus. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. Simplus--wh...

San Francisco-based CoreOS, the developer of Kubernetes and other container software, hsa been acquired by Red Hat, in a deal worth $250M. According to Red Hat, it will use the acquisition to bolster its Kubernetes and container-based portf...

Santa Clara-based Avaya said this morning that it has acquired Seattle-based Spoken Communications, a provider of artificial inteligence-driven contact center services and software. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. A...

San Francisco-based MovieLaLa, which had operated a social network for movie fans, has been acquired by user generated GIF site Gfycat. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. As a result of the acquisition, Gyfcat has redirected all...

Palo Alto-based Autonomic, a developer of cloud-based software for the mobility and automotive market, has been acquired by auto manufacturer Ford, to boost its mobility services for vehicle owners, Ford said today. The acquisition is being...

San Francisco-based Square is expanding its Caviar restaurant delivery and ordering service in Texas, with the acquisition of Fort Worth, Texas-based Entrees On-Trays. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Square said the acquisi...

Mountain View-based Facebook has acquired Confirm.io, which develops software for authentication of identities. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Confirm.io was based in Boston. As part of the acquisition, Confirm.io said that ...

Folsom-based PowerSchool, a developer of student management software for the education market, is reportedly up for sale, according to a report from Reuters. According to the report, the private equity owner of PowerSchool, Vista Equity Par...

Denver-based FullContact said on Thursday that it has acquired San Francisco-based Mattermark, which provides information about companies and their key personnel. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. According to FullContact, the ...

San Francisco-based on-demand grocery store delivery service Instacart said on Tuesday that it has acquired Unata, a provider of while-label, grocery software for brick and mortar retailers. Financial details of the buy were not announced. ...

Rancho Cordova-based Bantam Connect, which operates a "warm" leads acquisition service for the insurance industry, has been acquired by online insurance marketplace QuoteWizard. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. QuoteWi...

Milpitas-based cybersecurity software developer FireEye announced this morning that it has acquired X15 Software, a developer of big data software used in the cybersecurity area. FireEye said it will pay $15M in equity and $5M in cash for X...

Perforce Software, which has offices in Alameda, has been acquired by private equity investor Clearlake Capital. Perforce, which develops version control software used by software teams, was previously owned by another private equity invest...

San Francisco-based Attic Labs, the developer of the open source, Noms database, has been acquired by Salesforce. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Attic Labs developed a decentralized, open source database. Attic Labs was ba...

San Francisco-based log monitoring and analytics software developer Loggly has been acquired by Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds, a developer of IT management software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Loggly, which wa...

San Jose-based Silver Spring Networks said late Wednesday that its deal to acquire smart meter maker Itron was approved by its shareholders, and it now expects the deal to close on or around today. Silver Spring Networks and Itron said in S...

Sunnyvale-based Trimble announced this morning that it has acquired Stabiplan B.V., a developer of 3D Computer Aided Design and Engineering (CAD/CAE) software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to Trimble, t...

San Francisco-based BrightFunnel, a developer of marketing analytics and attribution software for the B2B market, has been acquired by Atlanta-based Terminus. Financial details of the acquisition were not anonunced. Terminus said that 40 o...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo has acquired ABC Financial Services, a provider of software and payment processing services to the health club market. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Accordin...

Campbell-based Barracuda Networks said this morning that it has acquired PhishLine, a developer of a software-as-a-service platform for social engineering simulation and training. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Phi...

Redwood City-based ARMO BioSciences file for an IPO last week, saying that it is looking to raise up to $86.25M in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The company has applied to list as ARMO. The IPO is being underwritten by Jefferie...

San Francisco-based Mattermark, a provider of corporate information for sales teams and others, has been acquired by FullContact for less than $1M, according to a details leaked to the press by a disgruntled employee of Mattermark. Details ...

San Jose-based Cloud Harmonics, a provider of cybersecurity solutions for the U.S. and Canadian markets, has been acquired by Irvine, California-based Ingram Micro. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Cloud Harmonics has location...

Cupertino-based Apple has acquired music recognition service Shazam, in a deal worth a reported $400M. Apple confirmed the acquisition, but not financial details, of the acquisition this morning. Shazam is based in the UK, and was founded i...

Fremont-based Sigma Designs said Thursday that it is being acquired by Silicon Labs, in a deal worth $282M. Silicon Labs is paying $7.05 per share in cash for Sigma Designs. Sigma Designs develops the Z-Wave Internet-of-Things (IoT) technol...

Cupertino-based Apple has acquired Oakland-based Pop Up Archive, a company which develops tools to transcribe and search audio podcasts, according to reports. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Pop Up Archive was backe...

Mountain View-based Intuit said this morning that it is acquiring TSheets, a developer of cloud-based software that lets small and medium businesses, self-employed, and accountants track time and scheduling. The deal is worth $340M. TSheets...

Redwood City-based WePay, the provider of integrated payment software, is now officially part of Chase, the two said this morning, after the completion of the acquisition of WePay. The deal had originally been announced in October. Terms of...

Santa Clara-based InterVision Systems, a provider of information technology solutions and services, said today that it has acquired Westlake Village, California-based Independent Technology Group, a provider of information technology servic...

San Francisco-based game engine developer Unity Technologies has acquired UK-based Multiplay Ltd, as well as its game hosting business, from GAME Digital plc, the company announced today. Unity is paying approximately $29.39M for Multiplay....

San Francisco-based Denali Theaprutics, a biopharmaceuticals developer working on developing treatments for patients with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has...

Campbell, California-based Barracuda Networks said today that it has agreed to be acquired by private equity investor Thoma Bravo, in a deal worth $1.6 billion in cash. The two said that Thoma Bravo will pay $27.55 per share in cash for Bar...

Santa Clara-based McAfee and Campbell-based Skyhigh Networks announced this morning that McAfee will acquire Skyhigh in a business combination. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Skyhigh CEO Rajiv Gupta will head up Mc...

Apple has acquired virtual reality headset developer Vrvana, according to an unconfirmed report on Thursday, in what is reportedly a $30M deal. Vrvana makes the Totem virtual reality headset, and is based in Montreal, Canada. The acquisitio...

Sunnyvale-based Proofpoint announced on Tuesday afternoon that it has completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based Cloudmark, which provides messaging security and threat intelligence for internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile car...

Santa Clara-based Marvell Technology Group Ltd. is buyin San Jose-based Cavium, in a deal worth approximately $6 billion, the two said this morning. According to the two, Marvell will pay $40.00 per share in cash plus 2.1757 Marvell common ...

San Francisco-based Lyft has acquired most of the engineering team for livestreaming app developer Kamcord--but is not buying any of Kamkord's livestreaming and social media technology. Financial details of the buy were not announced. As pa...

Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software announced this morning that it has acquired San Francisco-based Alpine Data, a developer of cloud-based data science and social collaboration tools. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by t...

San Francisco-based Cloudflare announced this morning that it has acquired Sunnyvale-based Neumob, a startup developing mobile virtual private network (VPN) software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Cloudflare says ...

Menlo Park, California-based InVisage Technologies, a developer of image sensor technology, has been acquired by Apple, Apple confirmed today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. InVisage's sensor provide far better light...

Qualcomm announced this morning that its board has unanimously rejected the unsolicited acquisition proposal from San Jose-based Broadcom, saying the offer "dramatically undervalues" the company. Broadcom offered to pay $130 billion for Qu...

Mountain View-based Elastic, the developer of search software tools, said on Thursday that it has acquired site search provider Swiftype. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Swiftypes founders, Matt Riley and Quin Hoxie...

Redwood City-based Talend said late Thursday that it has acquired French software developer Restlet SAS, a developer of cloud-based, API design and testing tools. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Restlet was based in...

Redwood City-based Electronic Arts has acquired game development studio Respawn Entertainment, the creator of Titanfall, in a deal worth up to $455M, the company said Thursday afternoon. According to EA, it will pay $151M in cash, and up to...

San Francisco-based Zynga said on Tuesday that it has acquired the cards division of Peak Games, a Turkish company that develops mobile games. Peak Games is known for its mobile card games Spades PLus and Gim Rummy Plus, among others. Zynga...

Sunnyvale-based cybersecurity software developer Proofpoint said this morning that it is acquiring San Francisco-based Cloudmark in a deal worth $110M in cash. Cloudmark is a developer of messaging security and threat intelligence for Inter...

San Francisco-based Canteloupe Systems, a developer of cloud and mobile software for the vending machine industry, has been acquired by Pennsylvania-based USA Technologies. The deal was worth approximately $85M. USA Technologies is a develo...

Mountain View-based cybersecurity software developer Symantec said late Monday that it has acquired SurfEasy, a provider of virtual private network (VPN) services for smartphones. Symantec did not say how much it paid for SurfEasy, which wi...

San Francisco-based Swing Technologies, which develops the photo app SWNG, has been acquired by Microsoft, the companies said on Tuesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Swing's employees will join Mi...

San Jose-based semiconductor giant Broadcom announced a $130 billion bid for Qualcomm. Broadcom that it has proposed to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Qualcomm for $70.00 in cash and stock. Broadcom said the deal would be split be...

Redwood Shores-based Zyme, a developer of sales channel data management sdoftware, has been acquired by E2open, the companies announced this morning. Financial details of the transaction were not announced. Zyme's software is used to track...

Mountain View-based Synopsys has agreed to acquire Massachusetts-based Black Duck Software, a developer of software to automate the management of open source software, the company said on Thursday. Synopsys said it would pay $565M for Black...

Palo Alto-based VMware announced today that it has acquired VeloCloud, a developer of cloud-based, software-definied, wide-area-network (SD-WAN) technology. VMware did not disclose financial details of the deal, but did say that there is n...

San Francisco-based SchoolMint, a developer of student enrollment software for school districts, charter schools, private schools, and other educational institutions, has been acquired by Hero K12, a fellow developer of educational technolo...

Redwood City-based Ivalua, a developer of cloud spend management software, has acquired Directworks, a developer of a cloud-based systems for supplier management, RFPs, and other related areas. Financial details of the acquisition were not ...

San Jose-based Extreme Networks says it has completed its acquisition of the data networking business of Brocade Communications Systems. The deal was worth $55M in cash, and had been announced in March. Extreme aid it expects the acquisitio...

San Jose-based network security hardware and software developer ForeScout has raised $116M in its IPO, and has started trading this morning on the NASDAQ Global Market as FSCT. The company priced its IPO at $22 per share last night in its I...

Santa Clara-based ServiceNow said on Wednesday that it has acquired San Mateo-based SkyGiraffe, a developer of a mobile software development platform. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. ServiceNow said the buy will help its cu...

San Carlos-based eMotorWerks, a manufacturer of electric vehicle (EV) charging systems, has been acquired by Enel S.p.A., via its U.S. subsidiary, EnerNOC. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. According to Enel, the buy will hel...

San Francisco-based and Boulder-based Occipital, which develops 3D scanning and mapping software, has acquired Paracosm, a developer of LiDAR-based mapping software and technology for creating maps of large-scale spaces. Financial details o...

Cupertino-based Apple has acquired wireless charging startup PowerbyProxi, Apple said today. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. PowerbyProxi was based in Auckland, New Zealand. Apple said it will continue to operate Po...

San Jose-based Edison Software, the developer of email software and provider of e-commerce data extracted from emails, said it has acquired Return Path's Consumer Insights business. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced. ...

San Jose-based Cisco said this morning that it has acquired Maryland-based BroadSoft, in a deal worth $1.9 billion. According to Cisco, it will pay $55 per share in cash for publicly held BroadSoft. BroadSoft is a developer of cloud calling...

San Francisco-based August Home, the startup developing "smart lock" products founded by Jason Johnson and Yves Behar, has been acquired by ASSA ABLOY. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. August Home develops "smart" do...

Santa Clara-based Chegg, which develops online study tools for students, said on Wednesday that it has acquired Cogeon GmbH, a German developer of adaptive math technology and math apps. Cogeon's flagship software is Math 42. Chegg said it ...

Adobe announced today that it has acquired Kylebrush.com, a developer of extensions and add-ons to Photoshop, created by Kyle T. Webster. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Kylebrush, the company's brushes a...

Mountain View-based Facebook has acquired TBH, a developer of social app popular with teenagers in sending on compliments and "positive interactions" to others. TBH said its app has "helped people recover from depression and form better rel...

San Jose-based ForeScout Technologies has set its estimated pricing range for its IPO, saying that it expects to price its IPO at between $20.00 and $22.00 per share. The company, which has applied to list as FSCT on the NASDAQ Global Marke...

Mountain View-based Google has acquired DB60, the developer of a podcasting application. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. DB60 said it will be "joining the team at Google" and shutting down its service, as of November ...

Redwood City-based Equinix announced this morning that it has completed its acquisition of Itconic, a data center operator and cloud services company serving Spain and Portugal. The deal was worth $295M in cash. The deal also included Cloud...

San Jose-based Aquantia has filed for an IPO, saying in an S-1 filing that it is looking to raise up to $86.25M in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The company has applied to list as AQ. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley...

San Francisco-based Kongregate said last week that it has acquired Synapse Games, the developer of such games as War Metal Tyrant, Global Assault, Castaway Cove, and other titles. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Kongr...

San Francisco-based Splunk announced this morning that it has acquired select assets of Rocana, a developer of analytics software for the IT market. Financial terms of the cash acquisition were not announced. According to Splunk, it acquire...

Foster City-based Guidewire Software, which provides software to the property and casualty insurance market, announced this morning that it has acquired San Mateo-based a href="http://www.cyence.com">Cyence, a developer of cloud-based risk ...

Walnut Creek-based Forensic Logic has acquired COPLINK, an information sharing platform for the law enforcement industry, from IBM, according to Forensic Logic. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. COPLINK's software is used by law ...

Walnut Creek-based Forensic Logic has acquired COPLINK, an information sharing platform for the law enforcement industry, from IBM, according to Forensic Logic. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. COPLINK's software is used by law ...

Ten-X, an online real estate marketplace operator which has offices in San Mateo, is now owned by private equity investor Thomas H. Lee Partners, T.H. Lee said this morning. Ten-X, formerly known as Auction.com, was venture backed by Stone ...

San Francisco-based AltspaceVR has been rescued from the deadpool, and has been acquired by computing software giant Microsoft, to help Microsoft bolster its Windows Mixed Reality software unit. According to Microsoft, it use AltspaceVR to ...

Santa Clara-based ServiceNow says it has acquired Telepathy, a San Diego, California developer of software used in the user interface and experience area. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Telepathy was founded by Chuck...

San Jose-based ForeScout, which develops cybersecurity technology focused on monitoring and controlling the devices which attach to corporate networks, has filed for an IPO. ForeScout says it is looking to raise $100M in its IPO offering, a...

Pleasanton-based Ellie Mae said Monday afternoon that it has completed its acquisition of Los Angeles-based Velocify, a developer of sales lead management software. Ellie Mae said the acquisition will help in its efforts to deliver digital ...

San Ramon-based Accela, a developer of software for state, county and municipal governments, has been acquired by private equity investor Berkshire Partners. Financial details of thea cquisition were not announced. According to Berkshire Pa...

Furniture giant Ikea is acquiring TaskRabbit, the San Francisco-based startup which help people connect with contract labor, according to reports on Thursday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. TaskRabbit helps link pe...

Los Gatos-based Roku priced its IPO at $14.00 per share on Wednesday evening, saying that it is offering 15,668,000 shares of its Class A common stock in its IPO. Roku will begin trading on the Nasdaw Global Select Market this morning as RO...

Google said Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired Bitium, Santa Monica, California developer of cloud identity and single sign-on software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Google, the acquisition of Biti...

Mountain View-based Gigya, a developer of social marketing tools, has been acquired by SAP, SAP announced on Sunday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. SAP said that Gigya will become part of the SAP Hybris business unit...

San Jose-based Cisco said late last week that it has completed its acquisition of Sunnyvale-based Springpath. The deal was worth $320M in cash, and had been announced in August. Springpath was a developer of distributed file system software...

Mountain View-based Google and HTC Corporation said this morning that Google will pay $1.1 billion in cash to HTC and will hire a number of employees of HTC working on Google's Pixel smartphone. As part of the deal, Google will receive a no...

Dublin, California-based Callidus Software, a developer of cloud-based sales and marketing software, announced today that it has acquired OrientDB Ltd., a developer of NoSQL database software. Financial details of the acquisition were not a...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Francisco Partners announced this morning that it has sold portfolio company R2Net, to Signet Jewelers. Financial details of the sale were not announced. R2Net owns online jewelry brands JamesAlle...

San Jose-based Silver Spring Networks has been acquired by smart utility meter maker Itron, in a deal worth $830M in cash, the two announced this morning. According to the companies, Itron will pay $16.25 per hare in cash for each share of ...

Oakland-based Blue Bottle Coffee, the high end specialty coffee shop retailer which is a favorite around the Bay Area, has been acquired by Nestle, Nestle said on Thursday. Financial details of the deal were not announced, however, reports ...

The $1.3 billion acquisition of Palo Alto-based Lattice Semiconductor has been kiboshed by the White House, in the latest, failed acquisition by Chinese investors to acquire a U.S. technology company. President Donald Trump on Wednesday blo...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Francisco Partners has made a majority investment in Illinois-based NMI, a developer of payment technology for ISOs, VARs, ISVs and payment facilitators. Financial details of the investment were n...

San Francisco-based car sharing startup Turo said today that it has raised $92M more, including a big investment from Daimler. According to Daimler Mobility Services, it was the lead investment in Turo's new funding round, which also includ...

Mountain View-based Intermedia annoucned this morning that it has acquired AnyMeeting, a developer of cloud-based web- and video-conferencing services. Financial details of the asset acquisition were not announced. Intermedia said the acqu...

Santa Clara-based malware defense software developer Cyphort has been acquired by Juniper Networks, the two said on Thursday, in an effort to strengthen Juniper's Sky Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP). Financial terms of the acquisition were...

San Francisco-based Lithium has acquired the external online community business of Palo Alto-based Jive, the two said this week. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to the two, the buy will allow Jive to focus...

San Francisco-based private equity investor True Wind Capital has completed an acquisition of Milwaukee-based ARI Network Services. The deal was worth approximately $140M, or $7.10 per shares of publicly held ARI. ARI will no longer trade o...

Newark, California-based Tegile Systems, a developer of flash-based storage for the enterprise data center market, has been acquired by Western Digital. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Tegile System...

Redwood City-based Upthere, a provider of cloud-based photo, music, video, and document storage services for the consumer market, has been acquired by Western Digital, the two companies said on Monday. Financial details of the buy were not ...

Milpitas-based power semicoductor maker IXYS has been acquired by Littelfuse, in a deal worth $750M, the two said this morning. The two companies said the transaction, a mix of cash and stock, has an enterprise value of $655M. IXYS stockhol...

San Jose-based Cisco said today that it will acquire Sunnyvale-based Springpath, a developer of distributed file systems. Cisco said it will pay $320M in cash for Springpath. Springpath's distributed file system is used for "hyperconverged"...

Pleasanton-based Workday disclosed on Wednesday that it has acquired the team behind Redwood City-based Pattern, a developer of financial management and HR software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced....

Newark, California-based Logitech said late Friday that it has completed its acquisition of European console gaming accessory maker ASTRO Gaming. The deal had been announced in July. ASTRO Gaming is a maker of headsets used by both professi...

San Francisco-based Granular a startup which was developing software and analytics tools for the agriculture industry, was acquired early last week by DuPont. Financial details of the buy wer enot disclosed. Granular co-founder and CEO Sid ...

Mountain View-based Facebook has acquired video editing software firm Fayteq, which develops software which can automatically remove and add images to videos. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Fayteq is based in Germany...

Campbell, California-based Chuckwalla (aka ASL Acquisition Inc.) has been acquired by Portland, Oregon-based NetXposure (NetX). Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Both companies develop digital asset management software....

San Francisco-based videogame engine developer Unity has added Max Levchin and Robynne Sisco to the company's board, the company said on Thursday, as the company prepares for an IPO. Robynne Sisco is the CFO of WOrkday, and also has served ...

San Jose-based PayPal said on Thursday that it has acquired Swift Financial, a provider of working capital to small businesses in the United States. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to PayPal it will use th...

Palo Alto-based ClearGraph, a developer of natural language query software, has been acquired by Seattle-based Tableau Software, the companies announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. ClearGraph had bee...

San Carlos-based auto marketplace operator Carlypso, has been acquired by Phoenix, Arizona-based Carvana the two said on Tuesday afternoon. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Carlypso had been part of YCombinator in 2014, and ...

Los Gatos-based Netflix, the online television streaming and entertainment company, said today that it has acquired Millarworld, a comic book publisher behind such characters as Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Old Man Logan. Netflix and Millarworld...

Los Gatos-based Netflix, the online television streaming and entertainment company, said today that it has acquired Millarworld, a comic book publisher behind such characters as Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Old Man Logan. Netflix and Millarworld...

San Francisco-based Interviewed, a developer of human resources software which helps companies run job interviews, has been acquired by job listing and search site Indeed. Terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Accord...

Mountain View-based Symantec said this week that it has reached a deal with certificate and encryption company DigiCert, where it will sell its Website Security and related PKI Solutions business to DigiCert, in a deal worth $950M in cash. ...

San Francisco-based restaurant reviews site Yelp and Grubhub said Thursday that Yelp will sell its Eat24 food ordering and delivery service to Grubhub. The two said that Grubhub will pay $287.5M in cash to acquire Eat24. The deal also call...

San Jose-based visual processing software developer Pixelworks said on Wednesday that it has completed its acquisition of Canadian media processing, encoding, and transcoding software developer ViXS Systems. The deal had originally been ann...

San Jose-based Cisco has completed its acquisition of software defined, wide-area-network (SD-WAN) developer Viptela, Cisco said this week. The deal, which was originally announced in May, was worth $610M in cash. Viptela was also based in ...

Ten-X, the operator of online real estate marketplace Auction.com and other online real estate sites, has been acquired by private equity investor Thomas H. Lee Partners, the companies announced this morning. Ten-X, which has its executive ...

Facebook has acquired Palo Alto-based artificial intelligence startup Ozlo, Ozlo said on Monday, to help Facebook bolsters Messenger team. Ozlo had developed mobile apps for Android and iOS that served as virtual assistants. Financial detai...

Santa Clara-based INVECAS, a provider of ASIC design and silicon services, said today that it has acquired the HDMI design team and Simplay Labs subsidiary of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. Financial terms of the acquisition were not an...

San Jose-based Xactly, which develops cloud-based performance management software, is now owned by private equity investor Vista Equity, the two said this morning. The deal had originally been announced on May 30th. Xactly had previously be...

San Francisco-based Dropbox has taken one more step towards a possible IPO, and is about to hire Goldman Sachs Group to prepare its IPO filing, according to a report on Thursday from Bloomberg. Bloomberg cited "people familiar with the matt...

Cupertino-based storage products maker Seagate and supercomputer maker Cray said this week that Seagate will sell its ClusterStor product line to Cray, transferring more than 100 Seagate employees and contractors to Cray as part of the deal...

San Jose-based Aiqudo, a developer of software that connects voice control software with smartphone apps, has raised $5.2M in a funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Atlantic Bridge Capital. As part of the fundin...

Redwood City-based Arrayent, which develops Internet-of-Things software used by major appliance and other manufacturers, has been acquired by Texas-based Prodea, the companies announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were ...

Mountain View-based Facebook has acquired New York-based Source3, Source3 said on Monday, to help bolster Facebook's intellectual property in the area of user-generated content. Source3 is a developer of tools used to flag unauthorized cont...

Redwood City-based Avast, which develops cybersecurity software, said this morning that it has acquired Piriform, a developer of device performance optimization software. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Piriform develops C...

Redwood City-based < href="http://www.rocketfuel.com">Rocket Fuel, a developer of media optimization and online advertising software, said this morning that it has reached a definitive agreement to be acquired by Sizmek. The deal is worth a...

Cisco has acquired Observable Networks, a developer of real time, threat monitoring software, the companies said on Thursday, with Observable Networks becoming part of Cisco's Security Business Unit and the Stealthwatch Product Team. Financ...

San Francisco-based Waterfall International, a developer of cloud-based, mobile messaging software, has been acquired by Austin-based Upland Software. Upland Software said this morning it paid $24.4M in cash plus $1.5M in cash holdback for ...

Mountain View-based Google has acquired Halli Labs, a startup developing artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Halli Labs, which was based in Bangalore, India, said i...

Mountain View-based HyTrust, a developer of cloud security tools, said this morning that it has raised $36M in funding, and acquired DataGravity. The Series E funding was led by Advance Venture Partners (AVP), and also included prior invest...

Santa Clara-based Agilent Technologies said on Friday that it has acquired Cobalt Light Systems, a developer of spectroscopic instruments for the pharmaceutical industry, applied markets and public safety. Agilent said it paid £40 million ...

Menlo Park-based private equity investor Silver Lake, along with New York's General Atlantic, have acquired Seattle-based A Place For Mom, an online marketplace which helps connect families with senior living and care providers. Terms of th...

Palo Alto-based CPI International, a manufacturer of electronic components and subsystems for the communications and defense markets, has been acquired by Odyssey Investment Partners, the two said on Wednesday. Financial details of the acqu...

Pleasanton-based Unchained Labs, a developer of tools used in the life sciences industry, said today that it has acquired Trinean, a developer of systems that measure protein, DNA and RNA concentration in biologics and genomics samples. Fin...

San Francisco-based Petcube, a developer of connected pet products, said this mroning that it has acquired Canadian startup PetBot. PetBot develops a crowdfunded "selfie taking" treat dispensing pet camera. Financial terms of the acquisitio...

Apple has acquired German eye-tracking technology developer SensoMotric Instruments, according to a report on Monday. MacRumors has uncovered evidence, including German corporate legal filings, which indicate Apple has acquired SensoMotric ...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Sveria Capital Management announced this morning that it has acquired iWave Information Systems, a provider of software used for donor prospecting and research by charity organizations. Financial ...

San Francisco-based online social gaming site Kongregate announced today that it has been acquired by Modern Times Group (MTG), in a deal worth $55M. Kongregate--which was owned by GameStop--offers up free-to-play games online as well as th...

What happens to San Francisco-based on-demand, grocery delivery service Instacart, now that Amazon.com is acquiring Whole Foods. Amazon said on Friday that it will pay $13.7 billion for Whole Foods, or $42.00 per share in cash, giving it a ...

San Francisco-based Invitae, a provider of genetic testing services, says it has acquired Ommdom Inc., the operator of CancerGene Connect, an online software platform which helps collect and manage family genetic history. Invitae said it pa...

Alameda-based Verific Design Automation, a developer of verification tools used in the semiconductor industry, has acquired the INVIO product line from Inovionics Software, the companies said on Monday. Financial details of the agreement we...

Campbell, California-based Jive Software is now officially part of Aurea, the two said this morning, after Aurea completed its $462M, all-cash deal for Jive, a maker of enterprise collaboration software. Aurea, which is backed by ESW Capita...

Mountain View-based BlueCart, a developer of cloud-based ordering and customer management software for the restaurant industry, said on Thursday that it has acquired Sous, a developer of restaurant administration software. Financial terms o...

San Francisco-based Uber is looking to acquire San Francisco-based valet parking company Luxe, according to the WSJ. Uber is interested in acquiring only the engineering team from Luxe, says the report. Luxe is venture backed by Redpoint ...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo has acquired Georgia-based risk management software developer Riskonnect, the company announced on Wednesday. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Riskonnect serves the ent...

Mountain View-based Tintri, a developer of enterprise, cloud-based storage software which provides public cloud-like capabilities within a data center, has filed for an IPO, saying it is looking to raise up to $100M on the NASDAQ Global Sel...

San Francisco-based Birst, the developer of business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data visualization tools, is now officially part of Infor, Infor said this morning. The acquisition--reportedly worth around $100M--was originally announ...

Mountain View-based Quotient Technology said today that it has completed its acquisition of mobile marketing and advertising firm Crisp Media. The deal, which was originally announced on May 2nd, is worth up to $57.5M in cash. Quotient Tech...

San Francisco-based Lithium Technologies, which develops cloud-based social media management and community software, has been acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Lithiu...

San Jose-based Modria, a developer of software used for online dispute resolution (ODR) for government and commercial entities, has been acquired by Plano, Texas-based Tyler Technologies. Financial details of the acquisition were not announ...

San Jose-based Xactly, a developer of cloud-based sales compensation management software, has been acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners. The deal was worth $15.65 in cash per share of Xactly, or approximately $564M. Xa...

San Francisco-based Codenvy, a developer of software used for cloud application development, has been acquired by Redhat, Redhat announced this morning. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Codenvy was founded in 2013, and is ba...

Berkeley-based Other Machine Co., a developer of rapid prototyping hardware which can fabricate PC boards (PCBs) and precision parts out of aluminum, Delrin, and other materials, has been acquired by Bre Pettis, former co-founder and CEO of...

The $1.3 billion acquisition of San Jose-based InvenSense is now complete, according to Japanese buyer TDK. TDK paid $13.00 per share in cash for InvenSense, for a total acquisition prie of approximately $1.3 billion. TDK announced the acqu...

San Mateo-based Coupa Software has acquired Riskopy, a developer of analytics engines used for financial analysis of companies. Financial terms of the asset acquisition were not announced Coupa said the deal will help it add 3rd party suppl...

San Jose-based Cisco announced Thursday morning that it is acquiring San Francisco-based MindMeld, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for building intelligent and human-like conversational interfaces for any application or de...

Mountain View-based Google has acquired Owlchemy Labs, the developer of virtual reality games as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Financial details of the acquisition, which was announced by Google on Wednesday, were no...

San Mateo-based subscription billing software Zuora announced this morning that it has acquired Leeyo Software, a developer of revenue recognition automation software. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Leeyo's flagshi...

San Francisco-based The Climate Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, announced on Monday morning that it has acquired Denver, Colorado-based agricultural software developer HydroBio. Financial details of the deal were not...

Redwood City-based Yummly, which maintains an online database of recipes and other cooking resources, has been acquired by Whirpool. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Whirlpool said the deal will expand its presence in the Inte...

Newark, California-based ShotSpotter, which develops electronic systems that are used by the police, public safety, and the military to locate the source of gunshots, filed for an IPO on Tuesday, saying it is looking to raised $34.5M in a p...

San Francisco-based Deco Software, a developer of tools used by designers and engineers to build React applications, has been acquired by Airbnb, according to Deco. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Deco had developed tools to ...

San Francisco-based Deco Software, a developer of tools used by designers and engineers to build React applications, has been acquired by Airbnb, according to Deco. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Deco had developed tools to ...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Golden Gate Capital has acquired 20-20 Technologies, a developer of software for interior space planning. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. 20-20 Technologies is based in Westwood, M...

Campbell, California-based Jive Software, a developer of enterprise collaboration software , has been acquired by ESW Capital, LLC, via affiliate Wave Systems. The two said this morning that the deal is worth $462M in cash, and will make J...

San Jose-based enterprise marketing reporting software developer TapClicks said on Thursday that it has acquired Raven Tools, a developer of Internet marketing software. The company also disclosed it has raised $3M in funding from Saas Capi...

San Francisco-based Automatic Labs, the maker of a device which plugs into any modern car and provides monitoring of a car's mileage, performance, and more, has been acquired by SiriusXM. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Aut...

Pixlr, a developer of mobile photo editing tools which is owned by San Rafael-based ...

Palo Alto-based Cloudera was up slightly in its first day on the public markets, training around $18.97 Friday morning after pricing at $15.00 per share in its IPO last night. Cloudera is now listed in the New York Stock Exchange As CLDR. ...

San Francisco-based Birst, a developer of business intelligence tools, has been acquired by New York-based Infor. Financial terms of the buy were not announced, however, reports place the deal at around $100M. Birst was venture backed by We...

San Francisco-based wide area networking equipment maker Riverbed--which was recently acquired by Thoma Bravo--has acquired wireless access point and SD-WAN maker Xirrus, the two announced on Wednesday. Financial details of the buy were not...

San Mateo-based marketing software developer Marketo announced today that it has acquired San Francisco-based sales software developer ToutApp. Financial details of the buy were not announced by the company. ToutApp was venture backed by An...

Santa Clara-based Asset Vantage, a developer of cloud-based asset management, accounting, and reporting software, said this morning that it has acquired fellow Santa Clara financial software developer Financial Navigator. Financial details ...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle has acquired Moat, a provider of advertising analytics information for brands, the two said on Tuesday afternoon. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Moat, which was based in New York, is led by CEO ...

Palo Alto-based Cloudera has set its estimated IPO range, saying in a filing this morning that it now expects its IPO to price at between $12.00 and $14.00 per share. The company is looking to sell 15,000,000 shares of its common stock, whi...

San Francisco-based Genos, a startup which was developing next-generation DNA sequencing, personal genetic discovery and research tools, has been acquired by NantOmics, the two announced last week. Financial details of the acquisition were ...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle has acquired Wercker, a startup develops tools to manage Docker-based cloud deployments. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Wercker's tools were used by developers to deploy and automate Docke...

Palo Alto-based Intapp, which develops business applications aimed at law firms and professional services firms, said this week that it has received a "significant investment" from Temasek. Size of the investment was not announced. Intapp i...

Palo Alto-based VMware said on Wednesday that it is buying Wavefront, a provider of metrics monitoring services for the cloud. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Wavefront's President and CEO is Pete Cittadini. Wavefront...

San Francisco-based Creativebug, which produces educational videos for the arts and crafts market, has been acquired by Jo-Ann Stores, the arts and crafts retailer. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Creativebug will con...

Redwood Shores-based Zyme, a developer of channel marketing and sales management software, has been acquired by Insight Venture Partners, in a deal worth more than $100M. According to Zyme, it had reached a definitive agreement to sell a ma...

San Francisco- and Boudler, Colorado-based Deis, which develops software tools to manage "Container" technology, has been acquired by Microsoft, the two companies said on Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Micros...

San Jose-based eBay said on Monday that it has invested $500M in Indian e-commerce site Flipkart, and will also sell its eBay.in business to Flipkart. The two have also entered into an agreement to jointly address the e-commerce market in I...

San Francisco-based TaskRabbit, which operates an online and mobile marketplace for freelancers, is looking for a buyer, according to reports this morning. The company has reportedly hired BankOfAmerica Merrill Lynch as an advisor. TaskRab...

San Francisco-based identity management software developer Okta debuted in its IPO this morning, surging more than 36 percent to around $23.00 in early trading, after pricing at $17.00 per share last night. The company sold 11 million share...

Santa Clara-based Analogix Semiconductor, a developer of mixed signal integrated circuits, is now owned by Chinese investor Beijing Shanhai Capital Management Co, Ltd. (Shanhai Capital). The deal was worth $500M. The acquisition also includ...

San Francisco-based Okta, which develops secure identity management software, has bumped its estimated IPO pricing, saying in a filing this morning that it now expects its IPO to price at between $15.00 and $17.00 per share. The company, le...

San Francisco-based Yelp announced this morning that it has acquired Turnstyle Analytics, a developer of a location-based marketing service which offers up free, guest Wi-Fi to help businesses connect with their customers. Yelp said it paid...

San Francisco-based Walkme, a developer of user onboarding software for the enterprise, has acquired Jaco, a developer of software used to track users' activity as they navigate through any web-based product in real time. Financial terms of...

Palo Alto-based Cloudera, a developer of data analytics software, has filed for an IPO, saying on Friday that it is looking to raise $200M in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The company has applied to list as CLDR. Cloudera is led by...

San Francisco-based YouCaring, the operator of an online fundraising site focused on compassionate causes, said today that it has acquired GiveForward, a site for crowdfunding medical expenses for individuals. Financial terms of the acquisi...

San Jose-based Extreme Networks announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire the data center switching, routing, and analytics business from Brocade Communications Systems, from new owner Broadcom. The deal is worth $55M in cash, in...

San Francisco-based Okta, which develops identity management software for the enterprise, has set its estimated IPO pricing. The company said, in a filing, that it is looking to sell $11,000,000 shares of its common stock at between $13.00 ...

Cupertino-based Apple has acquired Workflow, the developer of an iOS automation tool which helps combine the actions across multiple apps. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Workflow was venture backed by Rough Draft Ventures, L...

Alaska Air said on Wednesday that it is phasing out the Virgin America brand, less than a year after it acquired Virgin America. Virgin America had a particularly strong following in Silicon Valley, for its technology friendly service and h...

San Jose-based Cisco said Wednesday that it has completed its acquisition of application and business monitoring software developer AppDynamics. Cisco acquired AppDynamics in January, just as AppDynamics had embarked on an IPO. The deal wa...

San Francisco-based soial media management software developer Hootsuite said on Tuesday that it has acquired the Snapchat analtyics assets of Naritiv. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Hootsuite said it would open a new offic...

South San Francisco-based FDB (First Databank, Inc.), said on Thursday that it has acquired Morrisville, North Carolina-based Polyglot Systems. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. FDB is a provider of drug and medical dev...

San Francisco-based MuleSoft priced its IPO on Thursday night, saying that it will offer up 13,000,000 shares of its stock at $17 per share. The company priced above an earlier, estimated IPO range of $12.00 and $14.00 per share. The IPO of...

San Francisco-based online women's retailer ModCloth is being acquired by Wal-Mart subsidiary Jet.com, according to reports today. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Modcloth was venture backed by Norwest Venture Partn...

Online photo book service MyPublisher is shutting down on May 8th, the service told its users on Tuesday morning. The service has been part of Shutterfly since April of 2013, when Shutterfly acquired the company, however, the sites had main...

San Francisco-based Okta, which develops identity management software for the enterprise, has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing late Monday that it is look raise up to $100M in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. Okta said it has ...

Santa Clara-based Intel announced this morning that it has acquired Israeli-based computer vision and machine learning company MobileEye, in a deal worth approximately $15.3 billion in equity. Mobileeye develops technology used for autonomo...

Nevada City, California-based Telestream, a developer of digital media tools, said Thursday that it has acquired IneoQuest, a developer of video quality monitoring software based in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Financial details of the acquisi...

Mountain View-based Google announced on Thursday that it has acquired AppBridge, a developer of tools to help migrate business users to Google's G Suite. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. AppBridge was based in Vancou...

San Francisco-based machine learning startup Kaggle announced late Wednesday that it has been acquired by Google, and will become part of Google Cloud. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Kaggle said its team will remain ...

San Francisco-based Tradeshift, which develops supply chain and procurement software, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Capgemini's IBX Business Network. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to Trades...

San Francisco-based Bizzy, a developer of email marketing automation software, has been acquired by SendGrid. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. SendGrid said it will use Bizzy's team and software to bring new capabilities to ...

San Francisco-based Roost, an operator of a peer-to-peer marketplace for finding places for extra storage, has been acquired by Australian company Spacer. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Spacer said the deal includes ...

HP Enterprise announced this mroning that it is acquiring San Jose-based Nimble Storage, a developer of flash storage products, in a deal worth approximately $1 billion in cash. Nimble Storage was founded in 2007. HPE said the acquisition w...

San Francisco-based Okta, which develops enterprise identity management software, has hired away the founders of San Mateo-based Stormpath, and licensed Stormpath's technology, according to the companies. Stormpath develops user authenticat...

San Francisco-based MuleSoft has set its estimated IPO pricing range, saying this morning in a filing that it now expects to offer 13,000,000 shares of its common stock at between $12.00 and $14.00 per share. The company has applied to list...

San Francisco-based restaurant and local business review site Yelp said Wednesday that it has acquired Nowait, a developer of restaurant software, used for wait listing and real time seating management. Yelp said it paid a total of $40M in...

Redwood City-based Equinix said today that it has agreed to purchase ICT-Center AG, a data center business in Zurich, Switzerland. Equinix said it will pay less than $5M for the assets. ICT-Center AG is located adjacent to an existing Equin...

San Francisco-based Mozilla said late Monday that it had acquired Read It Later, the developers of mobile content discovery app Pocket. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Mozilla said the buy is its first strategic acqui...

Milpitas-based power semiconductor developer Intersil is now officially part of Japanese electronics giant Renesas Electronics Corporation, the two said on Friday, after the deal formally completed last week. The deal had originally been an...

San Francisco-based Genesys, a developer of customer experience and contact center software, announced this morning that it has acquired UK-based Silver Lining Solutions Ltd.. Silver Lining is a developer of employee performance optimizatio...

Foster City-based online marketing firm Amobee said earlier this week that it has acquired Turn, in a deal worth $310M. Turn develops online advertising technology, including a data management platform for helping marketers understand custo...

Redwood Shores-based Saba Software, which develops cloud-based, human resources and talent management software, will acquire Ottawa, Canada-based Halogen Software, the two said on Thursday. Saba Software will pay CAD$12.50 per share, or app...

Redwood City-based Innit, the developer of connected gadgets for the kitchen, announced today that it has acquired Shopwell Labs, a developer of connected food and meal planning services. Financial details of the acquisition were not announ...

San Francisco-based Syncplicity, the developer of enterprise file sharing and synchronization software, has been acquired by French software firm Axway, the two said on Wednesday afternoon. Financial details of the acquisition were not anno...

San Francisco-based Meltwater, a developer of social media and new monitoring tools for brands, announced today that it has acquired Wrapidity, an artificial intelligence software that was originally spun out of Oxford University. Financial...

San Francisco-based MuleSoft, the developer of cloud API software for the enterprise which is led by Greg Schott, filed for an IPO on Friday, saying that it is looking to raise up to $100M in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The compa...

San Francisco-based Sourcebits, a provider of digital strategy, design, implementation, marketing and lifecycle-management services to brands, has been acquired by Cincinnati-based Ascendum. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. So...

San Jose-based PayPal said it acquired bill payment processing and receivables management company TIO Networks on Tuesday afternoon, paying approximately $233M for the Vancouver, Canada company. Tio provides bill payment processing across N...

Pleasanton-baed ZELTIQ Aesthetics, a developer of body contouring products for the aesthetic medicine market, has been acquired by Allergan plc, in a deal worth $2.47 billion in cash, the two said this morning. ZELTIQ, which is traded on th...

San Francisco-based AdEspresso, a developer of software for managing Facebook and Instagram advertising, has been acquired by social media management software developer Hootsuite. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. AdEspresso--w...

Santa Clara-based malware prevention and removal software developer Malwarebytes said this morning that it has acquired Saferbytes a developer of anti-malware, anti-exploit, anti-rootkit, cloud AV,and other technology. Malwarebytes said the...

Redwood City-based Equinix announced this morning that it has acquired the UK data center business of IO. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. IO's Data Center business, which was based in Slough, will be renamed LD10. T...

San Francisco-based SmartRecruiters, a developer of job applicant tracking software, has acquired Berlin-based Jobspotting, the company said earlier this week. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced. SmartRecruiters is ven...

San Francisco-based Sequence, a provider of user experience design services to such brands as Chipotle, Best Buy, Peet's Coffee and Tea, and others, has been acquired by Salesforce.com. Financial details of the acquisition were not announce...

San Francisco-based SoFi, which offers up online student loan refinancing, hsa acquired Zenbanx, a mobile banking service provider. Financial details of the deal were not announced. SoFi said it would use the acquisition to "supercharge" it...

San Francisco-based Timebridge, a developer of a cloud-based, online scheduling service, has been acquired by AnyMeeting, the operator of a online cloud meeting and conference service. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced...

San Francisco-based Eventbrite, which provides ticketing and event management technology, has acquired European self-service ticketing provider Ticketscript. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Ticketscript was founded in...

San Francisco-based Nextbit Systems, which is developing its own Android phones, has been acquired by gaming products maker Razer. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Razer said it has hired both Nextbit's management te...

Santa Rosa-based Keysight Technologies said on Monday that it would pay $1.6 billion in cash for Ixia, a developer of network testing software and hardware. Keysight is paying $19.65 per share in cash for Ixia, which it said is a premium of...

San Francisco-based RiskIQ, which develops digital threat management software, has acquired Maccabim.com Ltd., a provider of threat project management services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. RiskIQ says it has named...

Palo Alto-based private equity investor Sympthony Technology Group said on Friday that it has acquired Fishbowl, a developer of customer engagement and data analysis software for the restaurant industry. Terms of the acquisition were not di...

Never mind that IPO. San Jose-based Cisco said late Tuesday--in a surprise--that it has acquired San Francisco-based AppDynamics, in a deal worth $3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards. The acquisition came on the eve of an IPO by A...

In a sign of strong demand for its IPO, San Francisco-based AppDynamics bumped its estimated IPO offering range in a filing on Monday, raising its estimates of its initial IPO price to between $12.00 and $14.00 per share, up from an earlier...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo said on Monday that it has completed its sale of IT operations and security software developer LANDESK, to Clearlake Capital Group. Financial details of the sale were not announced by...

Los Gatos-based Zentri, a developer of low power, Wi-Fi hardware and a software stack used in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market, has been acquired by Austin, Texas -based Silicon Labs. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced...

Oakland-based Omicia has acquired Seattle-based Spiral Genetics, a developer of software for the next generation DNA sequencing market. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Omicia said the buy will help ...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle said on Thursday that it has acquired San Francisco-based Apiary, a developer of application programming interface (API) tools for the enterprise, cloud market, helping companies publish their APIs to partners. F...

Private equity investor Thoma Bravo, which has an office in San Francisco, is acquiring majority ownership of Austin, Texas-based Planview, a developer of project management and collaboration tools. Financial details of the acquisition were...

Palo Alto-based Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquired converged infrastructure software developer SimpliVity, in a deal worth $650M in cash. SimpliVity was based in Massachusetts, and offers up converg...

Santa Clara-based cloud software developer ServiceNow announced this morning that it has acquired ...

Redwood City- and San Diego-based online crowdfunding site GoFundMe has acquired CrowdRise, the developer of an online funraising platform for charities and non-profits, the company said on Tuesday. Financial details of the acquisition were...

A report late Monday said that Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is looking to sell its Skybox Imaging satellite business. According to reports, Alphabet is hoping to sell Skybox to fellow satellite imaging company Planet Labs. Finan...

Palo Alto-based enterprise healthcare benefits management software Jiff has been acquired by Castlight Health, the companies said this morning. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Jiff is venture backed by Venrock, Aber...

Copenhagen-based The Eye Tribe, a 16-person startup developing eye tracking software, has been acquired by Facebook, via its Oculus VR subsidiary. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The Eye Tribe's technology was origi...

San Francisco-based AppDynamics, which develops enterprise IT monitoring software, has filed for an IPO, and is looking to raise up to $100M on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as APPD, the company said in a filing over the holidays. The IPO...

San Francisco- and Denver-based CaptainU, a developer of athletic development and recruiting software for athletes, clubs, events, and colleges, has been acquired by sports software company Blue Star Sports. Financial details of the acquisi...

San Jose-based Adobe said this week that it has completed its acquisition of video advertising company TubeMogul. Adobe had said in November that it would pay $540M for TubeMogul. Adobe said the acquisition helps its create the industry's f...

San Francisco-based adtech developer Flite has reportedly been acquired by Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, according to reports this morning. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed....

San Francisco-based Airbnb is looking to raise another $153M in equity, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday, and is also eyeing an expansion into flight booking. According to reports today, Airbnb is working on a project cal...

Santa Clara-based Cyberfend, which develops bot detection software to fend off the use of stolen credentials and passwords, has been acquired by Akamai, the companies announced this morning. Financial details of the all-cash deal were not a...

Google has acquired smart watch technology developer Cronologics--founded by ex-Google employees--to work on Android Wear. Cronologics, which announced the acquisition on Monday, did not disclose financial details of the acquisition. Crono...

San Francisco-based automated testing software developer Sauce Labs announced today that it has acquired German test app developer TestObject. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. TestObject, based in Berlin, develops a mo...

Smart watch maker Pebble confirmed on Wednesday that it is selling its assets--but not its hardware--to San Francisco-based Fitbit, and will no longer be selling its smartwatches to the public. Pebble said, in a blog post, that it is "no lo...

San Francisco-based Dasheroo, a developer of dashboarding software for the small and medium sized business market, has been acquired by Freshlime, which develops cloud-based marketing software. Financial details of the acquisition were not ...

San Francisco-based WP Curve, which provides managed WordPress hosting services, has been acquired by hosting and domain registration giant GoDaddy...

San Francisco-based Uber has acquired Geometric Intelligence, a stealthy artificial intelligence company founded by New York University psychologist Gary Marcus and University of Cambridge professor of information engineering Zoubin Ghahram...

San Francisco-based Visa said last week that it has agreed to acquire Ohio-based CardinalCommerce, a provider of e-commerce payment authorization tools. CardinalCommerce will continue to be based in Mentor, Ohio. Visa said CardinalCommerce'...

Twitter has acquired mobile app developer Yes, Inc., the companies said on Thursday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Yes was the developer of mobile apps Frenzy and WYD. As part of the acquisition, Yes said it is shut...

San Francisco-based Product Hunt, a startup which lets early adopters vote up or down on new products and startups, has been acquired by AngelList. Financial terms ofthe acquisition were not announced. Product Hunt was founded by Ryan Hoove...

San Jose-based AppFormix, which develops cloud optimization software for OpenStack and Kubernetes, has been acquired by Juniper Networks. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced....

San Francisco-based fitness wearable maker Fitbit is reportedly about to buy smart watch maker Pebble, in a deal rumored to be worth around $30M to $40M. Pebble is based in Palo Alto. Neither company has yet confirmed the details of the dea...

San Francisco-based SquareTrade, which provides third party warranties for iPhones, iPad, laptops, and other electronic products, has been acquired by Allstate, in a deal worth $1.4 billion, according to the two companies. SquareTrade had b...

San Francisco-based AppDynamics has postponed an expected IPO from December to sometime next year, according to a report today from the WSJ. The report said that the IPO has been delayed due to uncertainty due to the U.S. presidential elec...

San Francisco-based The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, said it has acquired European farm management software developer VitalFields on Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. VitalFields was ba...

Mountain View-based Qwiklabs, which provides an online, learning environment for cloud platforms and infrastructure, has been acquired by Google, Google announced on Monday afternoon. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Q...

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Redwood Shores-based Oracle announced this morning that it has acquired Manchester, New Hampshire-based a href="http://www.dyn.com">Dyn, the provider of DNS routing and monitoring services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclo...

Mountain View-based Symantec has acquired Tempe, Arizona-based identity theft protection provider LifeLock , in a deal worth $2.3 billion in cash, according to the companies on Sunday evening. Symantec will pay $24.00 a share for LifeLock....

Campbell, California-based Apama Medical, a medical device developer developing a catheter ablation system for the underpenetrated atrial fibrillation (AF) market, has raised $13M in a Series C funding. The funding came from Ascension Ventu...

San Francisco-based LiveRamp, a developer of marketing analytics tools, said this week that it has acquired two companies, Arbor and Circulate. The company said it paid approximately $140M in cash plus $50M in stock awards for the two comp...

Sunnyvale-based JFrog, a developer of DevOps tools, has acquired Conan, the developer of an open source C/C++ package manager. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. JFrog said the buy will help expands its solutions for sof...

Mountain View-based Facebook has acquired FacioMetrics, a developer of computer vision and machine learning algorithms for reading facial expressions. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The company--a spinout of Carneg...

San Jose-based Virtual Instruments announced this morning that it has acquired Xangati, a developer of hybrid cloud and virtualization performance management software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition i...

San Francisco-based Fitbit said Thursday that it has not received any communications or acquisition offer from ABM Capital, or any other firm, for the company, after a suspicious SEC filing claiming that ABM Capital, based in Shanghai, had ...

San Jose-based video advertising company TubeMogul has been acquired by Adobe, the two announced this morning. The deal was worth $540M net of debt and cash. Adobe said it will pay $14.00 per share for TubeMogul. TubeMogul is a provider of ...

Santa Clara-based laser manufacturer Coherent, a developer of laser technology an dproducts, announced on Monday that it has completed its $942M acquisition of ROFIN-SINAR Technologies. The deal had originally been announced back in March. ...

Palo Alto-based electric car company Tesla Motors has agreed to buy Grohmann Engineering GmbH, a German developer of automated manufacturing systems, the company disclosed on Tuesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. G...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Francisco Partners has acquired the majority stake in Raleigh, North Carolina-based Prometheus Group, a provider of enterprise asset management and plant maintenance software. Financial details of...

Santa Clara-based Mobileum, which develops software for creating telecom analytics applications, has been acquired by private equity investor Audax Private Equity. The deal was announced last week. Financial details of the acquisition were ...

Santa Clara-based VOKE VR, which develops stereoscopic lenses and a panoramic camera specifically aimed at capturing virtual reality content, has been acquired by Intel, Intel announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were ...

San Francisco-based Preact, a developer of software to reduce customer churn, has been acquired by music streaming service Spotify. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced. Preact was backed by Trinity Ventures, Root Ventur...

San Jose-based Tessera Technologies said late Tuesday that it has acquired the technology assets and substantial patent portfolio of Pelican Imaging Corporation, which develops depth-sensing multi-camera imaging technology aimed at the dron...

San Jose-based Fibre Channel and storage area networking hardware maker Brocade Communications Systems has been acquired by Broadcom Limited, the two companies said today, in a deal worth $5.9 billion. Broadcom said it will pay $12.75 per s...

San Francisco-based subscription video site Vessel announced earlier this week that it has been acquired by Verizon. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Vessel will shut down the service as a result of the acquisition. ...

Fremont-based Quantenna Communications made its debut this morning on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, slipping slightly in morning trading to around $15.56, after pricing its IPO at $16.00 per share last night. The company sold 6,700,000 s...

Goodbye, Vine. Four years after purchasing Vine, Twitter is shuttering the service, and will be discontinuing the services mobile app. According to a post from Vine, it will continue to allow users to access and download Vines on its websit...

Mountain View-based e-commerce personalization software and marketing developer Bloomreach has captured Hippo, a Dutch content management systems developer, the company said on Wednesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announce...

Milpitas-based Eyefluence, which developed eye tracking software used for augmented and virtual reality displays, has been acquired by Google, the company said on Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Eyefluence had...

Palo Alto-based customer experience management software developer Medallia said today that it has acquired Israeli company Kampyle Ltd., a developer of software used for capturing customer feedback. Financial terms of the acquisition were n...

Santa Clara-based Malwarebytes said this morning that it has acquired AdwCleaner, a developer of tools for removing potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), adware, toolbars, and other software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not anno...

San Francisco- and Ghent, Belgium-based Showpad, a developer of marketing and sales enablement software, has acquired the core business assets of Taptera, a developer of enterprise sales management software. Financial terms of the acquisiti...

San Francisco-based THX, the surround sound technology developer which was founded by George Lucas in 1983, has been acquired by gaming accessories maker Razer. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Razer said that THX will...

Fremont-based wireless semiconductor developer Quantenna set its estimated IPO pricing range this morning, saying in an updated S-1 that it now expects to sell 6,700,000 shares of its common stock at between $14.00 and $16.00 per share. The...

San Francisco-based Worklife, which develops agents in Slack to help users manage their meetings, has been acquired by Cisco, the two said on Monday. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Worklife (Heroik Labs) will become part ...

Oculus VR has acquired Irish startup InfiniLED, a developer of next general, LED-based display technology used in wearables. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. InfiniLED is based in Cork, Ireland, and was a spinout of Ir...

Oculus VR has acquired Irish startup InfiniLED, a developer of next general, LED-based display technology used in wearables. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. InfiniLED is based in Cork, Ireland, and was a spinout of Ir...

Redwood Shores-based cybersecurity software developer Imperva has two more possible bidders in a bit to take the company private, according to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday. Bloomberg said that private equity bidders Silver Lake and ...

Google has acquired Famebit, an online marketplace which connects brands to YouTubers, according to Famebit's backers, startup studio Science Inc. FameBit was founded by David Kierzkowski and Agnes Kozera, and was helping YouTuber monetize ...

San Francisco-based iRhythm, which develops cardiac monitoring systems, said in a filing on Friday that it expects it IPO to price at between $13.00 and $15.00 per share. The company is selling 5,350,000 shares of its common stock in its of...

San Francisco-based Twilio said late Friday that it has filed an S-1 for a follow on offering, in a move which will provide liquidity to its Class A stockholders. Twilio will not be receiving any proceeds from the sale, which comes five mon...

Sunnyvale-based Trimble said this morning that it sold its unmanned, aircraft systems business--based in Belgium--to Delair-Tech. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Trimble's Beligum-based Gatewing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS...

Pleasanton-based BLackhawk Network Holdings said Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of Grass Roots Group Holdings Ltd.. The deal had been announced at the end of August. Blackhawk Networks said it would pay approximately $118M i...

San Francisco-based mobile gaming firm GREE International Entertainment said Thursday that it has acquired DragonSoul, a mobile role playing game developed by PerBlue. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. GREE is only acqu...

San Mateo-based Coupa Software has priced its IPO, saying late Wednesday evening that it will sell 7,400,000 shares of its common stock at $18.00 per share. The company will begin trading this mroning on the NASDAQ GLobal Market as COUP. Co...

San Jose-based Viv Labs, a developer of artificial intelligence software, has been acquired by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Viv Labs had been founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and ...

San Mateo-based Coupa Software has bumped the terms of its IPO, saying in a filing on Tuesday that it is now offering up 7,400,000 shares of its stock at between $16.00 and $18.00 per share. The initial estimated IPO terms are up from an ea...

San Francisco-based Salesforce is acquiring marketing data company Krux, Flux announced on Monday afternoon The deal is reported to be worth around $700M, according to the WSJ, which first reported the deal. Flux is also based in San Franci...

Fremont-based wireless video semiconductor developer Quantenna filed for an IPO on Thursday, saying that it is looking to raised up to $100M in its public offering. The company has not yet selected an exchange, but says it has applied to li...

San Jose-based cloud software developer Nutanix priced its IPO on Thursday evening, saying it will offer up 14,870,000 shares of its Class A common stock at $16.00 per share. The company said it "upsized" its IPO. The company priced above i...

Palo Alto-based Internet-of-Things software developer PLAT.ONE said on Wednesday that it has been acquired by SAP. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Plat.One said its IoT platform will become part of SAP's Hana Cloud Pl...

Palo Alto-based Altiscale, a developer of technology which helps companies to implement Hadoop in their data centers, has been acquired by SAP, SAP said on Tuesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Altiscale had rais...

San Jose-based Baynote, a developer of cloud-based, e-commerce personalization software, has been acquired by e-commerce software developer Kibo. Financial terms of the acquisition deal were not disclosed. Baynote's CEO is Bill Hustad. Kibo...

Santa Clara-based semiconductor developer Analogix and Chinese investor Beijing Shanhai Capital Management Co., Ltd. said late Thursday that Shanhai Capital will pay over $500M for Analogix. Analogix develops mixed signal, integrated circui...

San Mateo-based Coupa Software set its estimated IPO pricing range on Thursday, saying that it anticipates that it will price at between $14.00 and $16.00 per share. Coupa is selling 6,700,000 shares of its stock, which at $16.00 would net ...

Mountain View-based Apple confirmed on Thursday that it has acquired Indian startup Tuplejump, which develops machine learning and artificial intelligence software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Tuplejump is based i...

San Francisco-based drone software and hardware developer Airware announced today that it had acquired Redbird, a developer of drone applications which are used for aerial data visualization and analytics for mines, quarries and constructio...

San Francisco-based Tobira therapeutics, a publicly held biopharmaceuticals firm developing threapy to treat liver disease, has been acquired by Allergan, in a deal worth $1.695 billion. Allergan said it will pay $28.35 per share in cash, a...

San Jose-based Tessera Technologies announced this morning that it is acquiring surround sound and audio processing developer DTS, in a deal worth $850M. According to Tessera, it will pay $42.50 per share in cash for DTS, a 28 percent premi...

Palo Alto-based API.AI (aka Speaktoit Inc.), a developer of artificial intelligence software to create conversational chatbots, has been acquired by Google, the two said on Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. API....

Redwood Shores-based Oracle said Sunday that it has acquired Santa Clara-based Palerra, a developer of cloud security automation software. Financial terms of the buy were not announced by the companies. Oracle said that each of the companie...

San Francisco-based Airbnb has acquired Trip4real, a Spanish travel website focused on alternative travel tours and stays in Spain. Financial terms of the deal were not announced, however, a Spanish publication placed the sale at between 5 ...

Santa Clara-based Infoblox, which develops network infrastructure management software, is being acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners, in a $1.6 billion deal, the two said this morning. According to the two, Vista Equity...

Mountain View-based Intermedia.net, a developer of cloud-based applications, including Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office, has been acquired by private equity investor Madison Dearborn Partners. Financial details of the acquisition wer...

San Francisco-based Hipmunk, an online travel booking site focused on flights and last minute hotels, has been acquired by travel and expense management software developer Concur. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Hip...

San Jose-based Extreme Networks said today that it is acquiring the wireless LAN business owned by Zebra Technologies. Extreme Networks will pay $55M in cash for the business. Extreme Networks said it expects the transaction to be accretive...

San Francisco-based mobile games developer Glu Mobile announced this morning that it has acquired Poke Radar, the developer of the community app which lets Pokemon Go users figure out where to catch specific kinds of Pokemon, and also hired...

Milpitas-based power and analog chip maker Intersil is being acquired by Japanese semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics, in a deal that has an equity value of approximately $3.2 billion, the two said late Monday evening. Renesas said it w...

Sunnyvale-based Sensity, a developer of IoT networking technology which utilizes energy efficient LED lighting systems for deployment, has been acquired by Verizon, the two companies announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisitio...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo says it has completed its fundraising for its latest fund, Thoma Bravo Fund XII, closing the fund at $7.6 illion. The new funding, which Thoma Bravo said was "significantly oversubscri...

Ford said on Friday that it has acquired San Francisco-based Chariot, which operates a crowd-source shuttle service. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Ford said the acquisition would help it grow its dynamic shuttle ser...

San Mateo-based Coupa Software has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing on Thursday that it is looking to raised $75.0M in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market. The company has filed to trade as COUP. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan S...

Mountain View-based Google announced on Thursday that it is acquiring San Francisco-based Apigee, which develops application programming interface (API) management tools. Google said it will pay $17.40 per share, or approximately $625M, for...

Intel announced this morning that it has acquired computer vision startup Movidius Technology, which is based in San Mateo, to bolsters the company's expertise in computer vision, behind such technology as navigation and mapping, collision ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) is reportedly in talk to be be acquired by private equity firms, including Thoma Bravo, in a deal worth between $8 billion and $10 billion, according to Reuters on Thursday. The companies have yet to anno...

Pleasanton-based prepaid payments network Blackhawk Network Holdings said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Grass Roots Group Holdings Ltd., a developer of employee and customer engagement solutions, in a deal worth approximately $...

Daly City-based Genesys, a developer of contact center management software, said this morning that it is acquiring Indanapolis-based Interactive Intelligence Group. The deal is worth approximately $1.4 billion. Genesys will pay $60.50 per s...

Pleasanton-based IronPlanet, which operates an online marketplace for heavy, industrial equipment, has been acquired by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated. The companies said Ritchie Bros. will pay approximately $758.5M for IronPlanet. ...

Cisco announced this morning that acquired San Jose-based ContainerX, which develops "container" management software for the data center market. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Cisco says that ContainerX develops so...

San Jose-based storage product developer Nutanix disclosed via an amended S-1 filing that it has acquired two companies, PernixData and Calm.io. Financial details of the acquisitions were not announced. PernixData is a provider of flash-bas...

Sunnyvale-based Quanergy Systems, a developer of solid state LiDAR sensors, has acquired a product line from Raytheon BBN Technologies. According to Quanery Systems, it has acquire Raytheon's OTUS People Tracker software. That software is u...

South San Francisco-based private equity investor Mill Road Capital has stolen away electronic earbud and accessory maker Skullcandy, saying it will pay $196.6M to acquire the company. Skullcandy had been in the final stages of completing a...

Mountain View-based Apple has acquired personal health data and electronics medical records startup Gliimpse, according to a report today. Fast Company said that Apple acquired the company earlier in the year. Gliimpse was founded by Anil S...

San Francisco-based Genee, a startup developing scheduling tools driven by artificial intelligence (AI) software, has been acquired by Microsoft. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Microsoft said that Genee's co-founder...

Gawker Media is ending its operations next week, Gawker reported on Thursday, after the company was sold out of bankruptcy to media company Univision. Gawker reported the shutdown news itself, saying that Nick Denton, the site's CEO and fou...

San Francisco-based iiWisdom, a developer of software used for interactive browsing of proxy statements from publicly traded companies, has been acquired by Institutional Shareholder Services, according to the companies. Financial terms of ...

San Francisco-based Uber said on Thursday that it has acquired Otto, a startup developing self driving trucks. Otto had been developing self driving trucks, which were aimed at the logistics industry, inn a collaboration with Uber and its s...

San Mateo-based Marketo is now owned by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners, the company said on Tuesday, after the completion of the previously announced transaction. The deal had been announced on May 31st, and was worth $1.79 b...

San Francisco-based Twitch said late Tuesday that it is acquiring Curse, a developer of content for gamers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Curse had been led by Hubert Thieblot, and was founded in 2006. The company s...

San Francisco-based Twitch said late Tuesday that it is acquiring Curse, a developer of content for gamers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Curse had been led by Hubert Thieblot, and was founded in 2006. The company s...

San Mateo-based BeyondCore has been acquired by Salesforce, the two companies said on Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. BeyondCore developed data discovery and analytics sofware, and was backed by Menlo Ventures...

San Francisco-based 140 Proof, a developer of mobile ad targeting tools, was acquired by AcuityAds, the companies said last week. The deal was worth $20M, split between cash and earn out. 140 Proof had been venture backed by Bluerun Venture...

Palo Alto-based Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Milpitas-based SGI said that HPE is buying SGI for $275M, paying $7.75 per share in cash for the company. According to HPE, the deal will help it extend its growth in the big data and hig...

Milpitas-based biopharamceuticals developer Protagonist Therapeutics, which is developing peptide-based biopharmaceuticals, has raised $90M in its IPO, selling 7,500,000 shares of its common stock at $12.00 per share. The company is now tra...

Intel says it has acquired a developer of artificial intelligence software and hardware, Nervana Systems, in a deal which is reported to be worth around $350M. Nervana, based in San Diego, California, develops systems used for "deep learnin...

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Burlingame-based PLAYSTUDIOS, which develops free-to-play casino games, said today that it has acquired Israeli game studio Scene53. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The two companies said they had worked together on P...

Mountain View-based Google has acquired software trial and billing software developer Orbitera, the company announced on Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Orbitera was based in West Hollywood, California, and ha...

San Francisco-based mobile video app developer Eyegroove says it is shutting down its app, and its team is moving to Facebook, the company said on its website over the weekend. It's unclear if Facebook acquired the company, or just the team...

Mountain View-based Apple has acquired machine learning and artificial intelligence software developer Turi. The deal is reportedly worth around $200M. Turi--formerly known as both Dato and Graphlab--had raised $25.25M in funding, from such...

San Jose-based Neosem Technology, a developer of solid state drive (SSD) testing equipment, said Friday that the company has merged together Flexstar Technology and Tanisys Technology under a single company, Neosem Technology. Neosem said t...

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San Francisco-based social casino game developer Rocket Games the maker of Viva Slots, has been acquired by casino gaming operator Penn National Gaming. Penn National said it paid $60M for Rocket Games, plus potential earn out of $110M. Roc...

San Francisco-based Quip said Monday that it has been acquired by Salesforce. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Quip develops cloud-based, mobile collaboration tools aimed at teams. Quip was venture backed by Benchmark Capital ...

Sunnyvale-based Trimble announced on Monday that it has acquired German company AXIO-NET GmbH, a provider of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) corrections and professional data services. Financial details of the acquisition were not...

Sunnyvale-based Gainspeed, a developer of hardware products for the cable operator market, is now part of Nokia, Nokia said on Monday, after the previously announced acquisition deal completed. The deal was originally announced on June 10th...

In an abrupt end to Uber's battle for a place in China's market, UberChina, Uber's arm in China, says it has sold itself to Chinese competitor Dixi Chuxing. Didi will invest $1 billion in Uber as part of the deal, which will give Uber a 20%...

San Francisco-based Innotas, which develops cloud-based, IT project portfolio management (PPM) tools, has been acquired by Planview, the two announced this morning. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Innotas was ventur...

Mountain View-based Teradata said earlier this week that it has acquired Big Data Partners, a European provider of big data solutions and training. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Teradata said that Big Data Partnersh...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle, and San Mateo-based NetSuite said this morning that Oracle has agreed to pay approximately $9.3 billion in cash for NetSuite. According to the two, Oracle will pay $109.00 per share in cash for NetSuite, which d...

Mountain View-based LinkedIn said on Tuesday that it has acquired Chicago-based social selling software developer PointDrive. Financial terms of the acquisition were not dicclosed. PointDrive's application helps sales professionals deliver ...

Pleasanton-based WorkDay said Friday that it has acquired Platfora, the venture backed developer of big data analytics tools. Financial terms of the buy were not announced, however, reports place the deal at around $200M. Platfora was backe...

Verizon Communications and Yahoo said this morning that Verizon will acquire Yahoo's operating businesses, in a deal worth $4.83 billion in cash. Verizon--which already owns AOL--said the acquisition will help turn Verizon into a top global...

San Francisco-based contact management software developer Genesys said Thursday private equity investor Hellman & Friedman LLC has invested $900M in the company in a private equity round. Genesys says that Hellman & Friedman acquired the eq...

Walnut Creek-based LawRoom, a provider of online, compliance education, has been acquired by Washington, DC-based EverFi. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. LawRoom is a provider of training courses and education, partic...

San Francisco-based Audentes Therapeutics has priced its IPO, saying late Tuesday evening that it will offer 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at $15.00 per share. The company priced at the midpoint of its earlier, estimate IPO range of ...

Foster City-based SciClone Pharmaceuticals said this morning that it has decided to remain an independent, publicly traded company, and is no longer talking to potential acquirers. The company--which is traded on the NASDAQ as SCLN--had lau...

San Francisco-based live events software developer Vendini has acquired the engineering team behind CHARGED.fm, according to the company. Financial details and exact structure of the acquisition/hire were not announced. CHARGED.fm was a dev...

San Francisco-based Cloud9, a developer of cloud-based, software development environments, has been acquired by Amazon.com. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Cloud9 said it will be joining Amazon Web ...

eBay has acquired sales conversion and analytics software developer SalesPredict, the company said on Monday, to help bolster its artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science efforts. Financial terms of the buy were not disclo...

San Francisco-based gene therapy developer Audentes Therapeutics has set the IPO pricing range for its upcoming IPO, saying in a filing this morning that it is hoping to sell 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at between $14.00 and $16.00...

Pleasanton-based Polycom has switched suitors, and is now selling itself to private equity investor Siris Capital Group, walking away from an earlier agreement with Mitel Networks. Siris Capital said it would pay $12.50 per share in cash fo...

Mountain View-based Google has acquired Anvato, a developer of video encoding and streaming tools, Google announced on Thursday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Anvato's software is used for automating the encoding, e...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo said on Thursday that it has acquired Elemica, the operator of a supply chain network for the industrial manufacturing industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. ...

Redwood City-based security software developer Avast Software says it is acquiring AVG, in a deal worth approximately $1.3 billion, the two said this morning. According to the two, Avast will pay $25.00 per share in cash for AVG. As part of...

Mountain View-based Google has acquired French startup Moodstocks, which develops mobile image recognition software, Moodstocks announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Moodstocks, which has been workin...

San Francisco-based mobile games developer TinyCo has been acquired by fellow mobile gaming company SGN, according to the two companies. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. TinyCo was backed by Andreessen Horowitz, and is best ...

San Francisco-based Hornet, a mobile app and gay social network operator, said on Tuesday that it has acquired Vespa, a provider of a gay city guide. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Christof Wittig, the founder and CEO of Ves...

Pleasanton-based Workday has acquired online learning startup Zaption, the two companies said last week, and will shut down Zaption as part of the acquisition. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Zaption said it will shut down it...

San Francisco-based software developer Wizeline...

Los Gatos-based Atomera, a company developing materials for the semiconductor market, has filed for an IPO, saying it is looking to raised $20M in an IPO on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The company as applied to list as ATMR. The company--whi...

San Francisco-based Salesforce and Massachusetts-based Demandware said late Thursday that they have received all required regulatory approvals on the proposed acquisition of Demandware by Salesforce. Salesforce is offering up $75.00 per sha...

San Francisco-based furniture marketplace operator Move Loot has shut down, according to an email sent to the company's customers, and has sold its customer list to Handy. Financial details of that deal were not disclosed. Move Loot had all...

Sunnyvale-based Rambus, and Santa Clara-based Inphi said this morning that Rambus has acquired the Memory Interconnect Business unit of Inphi, in a deal worth $90M in cash. According to the companies, Rambus will acquire the product invento...

San Jose-based Cisco said this morning that it has agreed to acquire CloudLock, a developer of cloud security technology, in a deal worth $293M in cash. CloudLock was based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and develops cloud access security broke...

San Francisco-based ridesharing service Lyft, which has been in a funding arms race with rival Uber, has hired boutique investment banking firm Qatalyst Partners to either find it a strategic investor or buyer, according to a report on Mond...

San Francisco-based Tradeshift has acquired travel app developer Hyper, the two companies said today, with Hyper becoming part of Tradeshift Go. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Hyper was founded by Minqi Jiang and Pet...

San Francisco-based Twilio has seen a huge bump in its IPO, and was trading at more than $25.69 in its initial morning trading on the NYSE as TWLO. The company priced its IPO last night at $15.00 per share, but started out the morning well ...

San Francisco-based Twilio priced its IPO last night, and will begin trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange as TWLO, the company said late Wednesday. Twilio priced at $15.00 a share, above its initial estimated range of $12.00 ...

San Jose-based BaySand, a developer of configurable, application ASICs, has acquired FalconX Accelreator, a provider of low power, digital signal processing (DSP) IP cores. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. BaySand sa...

Tesla Motors, the electric car company headed by Elon Musk, said on Tuesday that it has offered to acquire SolarCity, the solar financing and installation company which was also started by Musk. Tesla said it is proposing to pay between $26...

Morgan Hill-based Paramit, a provider of outsourced medical device and life sciences equipment manufacturing services, said today that it has acquired San Jose-based Lathrop Engineering. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Lathro...

San Francisco-based Salesforce and Massachusetts-based Demandware have been given the a quick nod from the feds on their plans to merge, as the companies said there has been an early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Ro...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Francisco Partners, along with Elliott Management, said this morning that they have reached a deal to acquire Dell Software Group from Dell. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. The fund...

Sausalito, California-based Joyent, which provides managed infrastructure to the enterprise market, has been acquired by Samsung, the two announced on Wednesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Acco...

San Jose-based Cavium, and Aliso Viejo, California-based QLogic said Wednesday afternoon that Cavium is paying $1.36 billion for QLogic, a developer of high speed, storage and networking semiconductors and hardware. The companies said Caviu...

San Francisco-based Twilio moved closer to its IPO on Monday, as it set the estimated IPO pricing range for a possible IPO. Twilio said in a filing that it now expects to sell 10,000,000 shareso f its common stock at between $12.00 and $14....

San Francisco-based ElasticBox, a developer of cloud application delivery and configuration software, has been acquired by CenturyLink, CenturyLink announced this morning, in an effort to bolster its end-to-end network, multi-cloud and hybr...

Mountain View-based Symantec and Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat announced late Sunday evening, that Symantec will buy Blue Coat for approximately $4.651 billion in cash. As part of the acquisition, the two said that Blue Coat CEO Greg Clark will...

Mountain View-based LinkedIn is being acquired by Microsoft Corp., in a deal worth $26.2 billion in cash, the two announced this morning. According to the company, Microsoft will acquired LinkedIn for $196 per share in cash. LinkedIn will c...

Sunnyvale-based Gainspeed a developer of hardware used by cable operators to transition from analog to IP video and data, has been acquired by Nokia, according to the companies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The two...

San Francisco-based Smaato, a developer of mobile advertising software, is being acquired by Chinese company Spearhead Integrated Marketing Communication Group, in a deal worth $148M. Smaato helps mobile app developers include ads in their ...

San Francisco-based Jobr, which develops mobile job discovery apps, has been acquired by Monster Worldwide, the two announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Jobr--which the companies likened to a "Tinde...

Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat Systems, the developer of network security products owned by Bain Capital, filed for an IPO last week, saying that it is looking to raise up to $100M in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange as BLCT. The IPO is bei...

San Francisco-based Steele Compliance Solutions, a provider of compliance management and due diligence software for the anti-bribery and anti-corruption market, has received a private equity investment from Bregal Sagemount. Size of the inv...

San Francisco- and Boulder, Colorado-based 3D scanning software developer Occipital has acquired Replica Labs, a fellow developer of 3D scanning software, the companies said on Thursday. Financial details on the buy were not announced by th...

San Jose-based INNOViON, a provider of ion implantation support and services for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry, said this week that it has acquired the ion implant service business of Thomson Support Services (TSS). Financ...

San Francisco-based Superfeedr, a developer of tools that helps publishers publish their content to RSS, ATOM, XMPP, and other feeds, has been acquired by Medium, the companies said on Thursday morning. Financial terms of thea cquisition we...

Santa Clara-based ServiceNow said today that it has agreed to acquire BrightPoint Security. Financial terms of the all-cash acquisition were not annoucned. ServiceNow said it will use the acquisition to bolster its Security Operations offer...

San Francisco-based Salesforce said this mornign that it is acquiring enteprise cloud software developer Demandware, in a deal worth approximately $2.8 billion. Salesforce said it will pay $75.00 per share in cash for Demandware. Salesforce...

San Mateo-based Marketo, which develops cloud-based, marketing software, has agreed to be acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners, in a deal worth $1.79 billion in cash. Marketo--which went public only three years ago--sai...

Mountain View-based online learning startup EdCast announced this morning that it has acquire Seattle-based Sales University, which develops sales training apps used by salespeople and enterprise companies. Financial terms of the acquisitio...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Genstar Capital announced this morning that it has acquired Infinite RF Holdings, a developer of radio frequency (RF) components for the aerospace/defense, industrial, government, consumer electro...

Intel is putting its eye on the self driving vehicle market, saying that it has acquired Itseez, a San Francisco startup working on computer vision recognition technology for self driving cars. Financial terms of the acquisition were not a...

San Francisco-based Twilio filed for an IPO on Thursday, saying that it is looking to raise up to $100M in an offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Twilio said it has applied to list as TWLO. The IPO is being underwritten by Goldman, Sac...

San Franciso-based data analytics software developer Statwing has been acquired by Utah-based survey software company Qualtrics, the two announced this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Statwin...

eBay announced this morning that its StubHub ticketing unit has acquired Spanish ticket marketplace Ticketbis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, however, reports are placing the deal around $165M. eBay said the acquisition wil...

San Francisco-based Kismatic, a developer of container management software and services for Kubernetes and Docker, has been acquired by New York-based Apprenda, the two said last week. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced...

Santa Clara-based Chegg said late last week that it now is reaching over 40 million students after the acquisition of Imagine Easy Solutions, which develops such writing help services as EasyBib.com, BibMe.com and others. Financial terms o...

Mountain View-based Facebook has acquired Two Big Ears, a developer of spatial sound processing technology, Two Big Ears said this morning. Financial terms of thea cquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, Two Big Ears said...

Mountain View-based Geekatoo, an in-home, technology services and support startup, has merged with fellow in-home tech support company HelloTech, the two said this morning. Financial details of the merger were not announced. Geekatoo has a ...

Mountain View-based electronic design automation software developer Synopsys said Tuesday that it has completed its acquisition of Simpleware, which develops software for converting 3D scans into computer models. Financial details of the ac...

Sunnyvale-based Trimble said today that it has sold its Trimble Energy Transmission Solutions (TETS) business to engineering software company GeoSpatial Innovations (GSI). Financial details of the sale were not announced. Trimble's TETS bus...

San Francisco-based crowdfunding site Indiegogo, which runs an online crowdfunding site, said it has agreed to acquire the assets of fellow San Francisco company Celery. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Celery offers u...

Mountain View-based Alexza Pharmaceuticals said earlier this week that it is being acquired by Spanish company Grupo Ferrer Internacional, in a deal worth approximately $11.4M. Ferrer said it will pay $0.90 per share in cash for Alexza Phar...

Santa Clara-based network security appliance developer Infoblox is mulling a go-private offer from private equity investor Thoma Bravo, according to reports on Wednesday. The report said that Infoblox was approached by Thoma Bravo last week...

Santa Clara-based Green Charge Networks, a developer of battery storage technology, has been majority acquired by energy giant ENGIE (formerly GDF Suez). Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Green Charge was developing bat...

Sonoma-based Good Company Wines, the parent company of online, wine subscription retailer Invino, said late Tuesdya that it has acquired Glassful, a New York wine club company. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Good Com...

Cupertino-based biofuels developer Aemetis said last week that it has agreed to acquire cellulosic biofuels developer Edeniq, in a deal worth between one and two million shares of its common stock, plus cash worth up to $20M over the next f...

San Jose-based eBay has acquired Swedish artificial intelligence developer Expertmaker. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. eBay said that it would add Expertmaker's employees to its structured data product and technology...

San Jose-based Adobe said Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired San Francisco-based LiveFyre, the developer of commenting and other social tools. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Adobe said it would integrate LiveFy...

Google said Monday that it has acquired Synergyse, a provider of training software which helps users learn how to use Google Apps. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Synergyse develops "virtual coach" software which work...

Santa Clara-based Chegg has acquired Imagine Easy Solutions, the developer of writing tools such as EasyBib.com. Chegg said it would pay $2M in the all-cash transaction, which $25M at close and $17M to be paid by April of 2017, plus up to $...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle said this morning that it has acquired Opower, in a deal worth approximately $532M in cash. Opower is a provider of cloud-based, energy efficiency services and customer engagement tools for the energy and utility...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo announced this morning that it has completed its sale of InfoVista S.A. to private equity investor Apax Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not details. InfoVista S.A., b...

San Carlos-based Rovi and San Jose-based Tivo said this morning that Rovi will buy Tivo, in a deal worth approximately $1.1 billion. Rovi will pay $10.70 per share in cash and stock for Tivo, split between $2.75 in cash and $7.95 per share ...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle said this morning that it has acquired Textura, a developer of cloud-based software for construction contract and payment management, for $663M. Oracle will pay $26.00 per share in case for Textura, which is list...

San Francisco-based Stemcentrx, a biopharmaceuticals developer focused on cancer, has been acquired by AbbVie in a $5.8 billion deal, the two said this morning. AbbVie said it would pay $2.0 billion in cash, and the remainder in stock for S...

San Francisco-based Stemcentrx, a biopharmaceuticals developer focused on cancer, has been acquired by AbbVie in a $5.8 billion deal, the two said this morning. AbbVie said it would pay $2.0 billion in cash, and the remainder in stock for S...

San Jose-based Cypress Semiconductor and Broadcom said this morning that they have entered into a deal, where Broadcom willsellits Wireless Internet-of-Things (IoT) business to Cypress. The deal is worth $550M. Cypress will acquire Broadcom...

HP has unloaded a number of software assets--including HP TeamSite, HP MediaBin, HP Qfiniti, HP Explore, HP Aurasma, and HP Optimost--to OpenText, the two said Monday. According to the companies OpenText paid approximately $170M for the sof...

San Francisco-based venture and private investor Northgate Capital, with $4.8 billion in assets, has been acquired by private investor The Capital Partnership, the two said this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed...

San Jose-based Polycom and Ottawa, Canada-based Mitel said Friday that the two companies are in a definitive agreement, where Mitel will pay $1.96 billion in cash and stock for Polycom. Mitel said it will pay $3.12 in cash and 1.31 Mitel co...

San Francisco-based Shuddle, a startup which had operated a ride service aimed at families and senior citizens, has shut down, saying on its website that it would cease operations as of this morning. The company did not say why it shut down...

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Redwood City-based OpenGov, which develops software to help state and local governments open up their data to citizens, has acquired Ontodia, a developer of open source data portal software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not discl...

Santa Clara-based mobility and expense management software developer Amtel has been acquired by NetPlus and private equity backer StoneCalibre, the companies said today. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Amtel is a developer ...

Santa Clara-based Intel said this week that it has acquired Yogitech, a developer of automotive driver assistance systems, such as assisted parking and autoonmous vehicle technology. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Yogitech w...

Walnut Creek-based videogame publisher Maximum Games said this week that it is in a definitive agreement to acquire Avanquest Software Publishing, a UK-based developer and publisher of videogames. Financial details of the buy were not discl...

San Francisco-based SurveyMonkey has quietly acquired San Francisco-based data analytics software developer Renzu last year, according to reports Wednesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. SurveyMonkey has turned Re...

Sunnyvale-based artificial intelligence Orbeus, a developer of visiaion recognition and image analysis software, has been acquired by Amazon.com, according to reports today. No details on the acquisition have been announced by either compan...

San Francisco-based Astound Commerce has made two acquisition this morning, saying that it has acquired Portland, Oregon-based Site9, and Chicago-based e-tailing group. Financial details of the two, separate acquisitions were not announced....

San Francisco-based Twist Bioscience Corporation, a developer of DNA synthesis and manufacturing technology, said this morning that it has acquired Genome Compiler, a developer of software for the genetic engineering, and molecular and synt...

San Jose-based GigOptix said on Monday that it has acquired Milpitas-based Magnum Semiconductor, in a deal worth $55M in cash and stock. GigOptix said it will rename itself GigPeak as a result of the deal. GigOptix said the deal is split be...

Santa Clara-based ServiceNow said this morning that it has acquired San Jose-based ITapp, which develops cloud management and DevOps software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ServiceNow said the all-cash deal helps bolster i...

San Jose-based Brocade, in its second acquisition in as many weeks, said this morning that it is buying Ruckus Wireless, in a deal worth $1.2 billion. Ruckus Wireless is a developer of wireless networking products. Brocade said it will pay ...

Pleasanton-based Blackhawk Network, a prepaid and gift card issuer and payment network operator, has acquired Extrameasures, a operator of promotional and incentive prepaid card programs. Financial terms of the acquisition were not dislcose...

Sausalito-based experience management software developer Sitecore, a developer of customer experience management sdoftware which was backed by Technology Crossover Ventures, has been acquired by EQT, via EQT's EQT VII fund. The two said the...

Mountain View-based questions and answers site Quora has acquired Egyptian website Parlio, the two said this morning. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Parlio was founded by Wael Ghonim, and was backed by Betaworks, F...

San Jose-based Brocade has acquired IT software developer StackStorm, the two said Tuesday, to help bolster Brocade's products with the addition of automation software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. StackStorm's pr...

Foster City-based Guidewire Software said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire EagleEye Analytics, a developer of predictive analytics software for the property and casualty insurance market. The deal was worth $42M in cash. Guidewire said...

San Jose-based eBay has acquired Cargigi, a provider of an online advertising and marketing services company, the two said Tuesday afternoon, to help eBay bolster eBay Motors and tools to help automotive dealers list their items on the auct...

San Francisco-based Humin, which develops mobile contact management software and the social chat app Knock Knock, has been acquired by dating app developer Tinder. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Humin co-founder Anku...

San Francisco-based AppDirect, a developer of a cloud services marketplace for enterprise software, has acquired Xendo, a developer of cloud-based, unified search software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. AppDirect said Xend...

San Francisco-based eBates, the cash back shopping site now owned by Rakuten, said Thursday that it has acquired Redwood City-based Shopular, the developer of a mobile product discovery app. Financial terms of the acquisition were not discl...

Burlingame-based Corvus Pharmaceuticals, a developer of immune therapy products to help treat cancer tumors, has raised $71M in an IPO. The company debuted on the NASDAQ Global Market as CRVS this morning, and was trading slightly down from...

Google is reportedly looking to sell Boston Dynamics, the robot technology company best known for its focus on four legged, military robots, according to reports. Google reportedly is unhappy with an indefinite horizon for Boston Dynamics, ...

Santa Clara-based laser manufacturer Coherent announced this morning that Coherent will pay $942M in a deal for ROFIN-SINAR Technologies. Coherent said it will pay $32.50 per share in cash for ROFIN-SINAR. Both companies trade on the NASDA...

San Carlos-based Alvine Pharmaceuticals, which is developing treatments for celiac disease, has been acquired by ImmunogenX, the two said late Tuesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ImmunogenX is a developer of biop...

San Mateo-based Optimus Outcome, a provider of services and technology around managing autism, has acquired San Francisco-based Autism Acumen, a developer of video-based tools for managing chronic neurological disorders. Financial terms of ...

Sunnyvale-based AppSense, a developer of endpoint security and user profile management software, has been acquired by LANDESK, the two companies said Monday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. AppSense, founded in 1999, ...

AppScotch, a developer of data analytics tools for mobile app advertisers and marketers, has been acquired by App Annie, the two said today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. AppScotch provides in-app data to those adve...

San Jose-based Cisco announced earlier this week that it has acquired San Francisco-based Synata, a developer of search technology. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Synata said it has terminated all of its services as ...

Menlo Park-based Facebook has acquired Masquerade, the companies said Wednesday. Masquerade said that it will be working with Facebook to bring its technology--which tracks faces and overlays silly masks and other decorations in real time c...

Intuit has offloaded another of its software units, Quickbase, to private equity investor Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, the companies said on Tuesday. Financial details of the sale were not disclosed. QuickBase is a developer of a develo...

Intel said Tuesday that it has acquired Replay Technologies, a developer of technology for immersive, high resolution sports viewing. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Replay Technologies developes a video format call...

Los Altos-based videogame developer Radiant Entertainment said this morning that it has been acquired by Riot Games. Financial details of the buy were not announced by the company. Radiant Games was developing a team-based, town building si...

San Jose-based UserZoom, a provider of UX testing software and services, said it has raised $34M in a Series A funding, and has acquired ...

Mountain View-based Symantec said late Friday that it has competed its $500M investment round from private equity firm Silver Lake. The deal had been announced in early February. Ken Hao of Silver Lake joins Symantec's board of directors, a...

San Mateo-based Openwave Messaging, a provider of email, security, subscriber and identity management, and other unified messaging tools, has been acquired by New Jersey-based Synchronoss Technologies. Financial terms of the acquisition wer...

Cupertino-based SugarCRM said this morning that it has acquired the assets of Contastic, a developer of natural language processing software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. SugarCRM said that Contastic's CEO, Cy Khormaee, ha...

Milpitas-based Quantros, a provider of safety risk management, quality management and reporting products, said this week that it has acquired Comparion Medical Analytics. Comparion Medical Analytics was based in Greenville, SC. Financial d...

Santa Rosa-based ClaimRemedi, a developer of billing systems and services for the healthcare industry, has been acquired by Kansas-based eSolutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ClaimRemedi was founded and was led ...

San Jose-based Cisco Systems said this morning that it is acquiring CliQr, a developer of cloud migration tools, in a deal worth $260M in cash and assumed equity. CliQr was based in Santa Clara, and will become part of Cisco's Insieme Busin...

San Mateo-based action camera maker GoPro said Monday afternoon that it has acquired two, video editing apps--Replay, and Splice--to help bolster its tools for mobile editing and sharing. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclose...

Mountain View-based rental search service PadMapper has been acquired by San Francisco-based Zumper, the companies announced on Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, however, reports place the deal at somewhere under $10...

San Francisco-based Xamarin, a mobile app development software developer, has been acquired by Microsoft, the company said Wednesday afternoon. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Xamarin develops native mobile developmen...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle has acquired Israeli software company Ravello Systems, the companies said on Monday. The deal is worth approximately $500M. Ravello's software allows developers to run their VMware/KVM environment in the cloud, ...

Sunnyvale-based EZchip is now officially part of Mellanox, the two said this morning, after the acquisition of EZchip by Meallnox completed. The deal was worth approximately $811M, or approximately $606M net of cash. The deal was first anno...

In a move that will not surprise watchers, Sunnyvale-based Yahoo said Friday that it has formed a committee of its board to explore "strategic alternatives" for the company. The company said the committee will look at possible buyers, strat...

San Francisco-based job search and listings site Hired, led by Mehul Patel, disclosed Monday that it has raised $40M more in a Series C funding. The funding was led by Lumia Capital, and also included Comcast Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Si...

San Francisco-based One Medical Group, a provider of technology-enabled healthcare services, said Friday that it has acquired San Francisco-based Rise, a developer of a health coaching platform. Financial terms of the buy were not announced...

Emeryville-based LeapFrog Enterprises, the developer of kids' electronic learning and educational toys, is being acquired by Hong Kong-based VTech Holdings, the companies said over the weekend. VTech said it would pay approximately $72M in ...

Sunnyvale-based Trimble announced this morning that it has acquired Sefaira Ltd., the developer of cloud-based software for building design. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Sefaira was founded in 2009, and was based i...

Menlo Park-based Nlyte, a developer of data center energy monitoring software, has acquired New Jersey-based FieldView Solutions. Financial details of the buy were not announced. FieldView Solutions developed software for real time data c...

Mountain View-based Symantec and Menlo Park-based private equity investor Silver Lake said late Thursday that Silver Lake will make a $500M strategic investment in Symantec. Silver Lake Manging Partner Kan Hao has been appointed to Symantec...

Mountain View-based LinkedIn announced Thursday that it has acquired artificial intelligence software developer Connectifier, as part of its earnings. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Connectifier was venture backed by...

San Jose-based networking giant Cisco said late Wednesday that it has acquired Jasper Technologies, which develops cloud-based, Internet-of-Things (IoT) software for the enterprise market. Cisco said it will pay $1.4 billion in cash and ass...

San Francisco-based Webfortis, a developer of customer relationship management software based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, has been acquired by Minneapolis-based Avtex. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Avtex, which provi...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Sverica Capital Management said it has backed the acquisition by Synoptek, of EarthLink's IT Services business. Financial details of that acquisition were not announced by the companies. Synoptek ...

Los Gatos-based business and IT consulting provider Infogain said Monday that it has acquired the IT operations of Blue Star Infotech. Financial details of the deal were not announced. Infogain said that the combined company will have close...

Alameda-based Perforce Software, a developer of version control and build management software for source code, has been acquired by private equity investor Summit Partners, the two said today. Financial terms of the acquisition were not ann...

San Francisco-based bitcoin exchange operator Kraken said Monday that it has acquired Coinsetter and Cavirtex, two Bitcoin exchanges, and also received a multi-million dollar funding round. Size of that round was not announced. Kraken said ...

Mountain View-based Apple has acquired New York-based Flyby Media, a developer of augmented reality software, according to reports. Flyby Media was led by Roy Yosef. No details on the buy have yet been announced by the companies....

Mountain View-based Symantec said late Friday that it has completed its sale of Veritas to The Carlyle Group. The deal was worth approximately $5.3 billion to Symantec, according to the company, in after-tax cash proceeds. Symantec says the...

San Francisco-based Sproutling, the maker of a wearable baby sensor that let parents keep track of whether a baby was awake or asleep, happy or fussy, and other details on a baby using their smartphone, has been acquired by toy maker Mattel...

Mountain View-based Apple has acquired San Francisco-based LearnSprout, a developer of educational software for tracking student performance. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. LearnSprout was venture backed by Andreessen Horowi...

San Francisco-based Ticketfly, a developer of ticketing software which is focused on live events and concerts, said it has acquired TicketBreak, a ticketing services company which had been owned by MapleCore Ltd.. Financial terms of the acq...

San Francisco-based AppDirect, a developer of a marketplace for cloud services for the enterprise, has acquired Radialpoint, a provider of cloud and technical support services. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Radialpoint focu...

Milpitas-based cybersecurity software developer FireEye said this week that it has acquired iSIGHT Partners, a developer of cyber intelligence, in a deal worth up to $275M. FireEye said it will pay $200M in cash, and up to $75M in cash and ...

South Korean-based wireless equipment manufacturer SOLiD Inc., which has its U.S. headquarters in Sunnyvale, said it has acquired REACH Holdings, its exclusive U.S. distributor of its products. Financial terms of the acquisition were not an...

San Francisco-based Glu Mobile said this morning that it has invested $7.5M in Reykjavik, Iceland-based Plain Vanilla Corp., the developer of the mobile game QuizUp. As part of the investment, Glu Mobile said it also has been given an optio...

Chico, California-based College Scheduler has been acquired by educational software provider Civitas Learning, according to the companies. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Civitas Learning said it will incorporate C...

San Jose-based microcontroller and semiconductor developer Atmel, and Chandler, Arizona-based chip maker Microchip Technology said late Tuesday that Microchip will pay $3.5 billion to acquire Atmel. The deal is worth $8.15 per share in cash...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Oval Partners has made a strategic investment in Phoenix, Arizona-based FlexPrint, a provider of copier and printer management and support services. Financial details of the investment were not ...

Roseville, California-based New Vision Display, a manufacturer of passive matrix and active matrix liquid crystal display technology, said it has acquired Florida-based OSD Displays, a manufacturer of custom OLED, TFT and STN displays. Fina...

Mountain View-based Intuit has sold its Demandforce marketing automation software business to Internet Brands, the companies said Friday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Intuit had acquired Demandforc...

San Jose-based Appcelator, a developer of cross-platform, mobile app development software, has been acquired by Axway, Axway said over the weekend. Financial terms of the all-cash buy were not announced. Appcelerator was venture backed by R...

San Francisco-based Fiverun, a developer of mobile, e-commerce software, has been acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Vista Equity said it would combine FiveRun w...

Los Altos-based Jemstep, a developer of software which helps wealth management advisors stay in contact with their clients, has been acquired by Invesco Ltd., according to Invesco. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by th...

Mountain View-based medication and supply management technology provider Omnicell said earlier this week that it has completed its $275M acquisition of Aesynt. The deal had originally been announced in October of last year. Omnicell said th...

Apple Computer has acquired Emotient, a developer of technology that uses facial expression analysis to read a person's emotions. Financial terms of the acquisition of the deal were not disclosed. Emotient was based in San Diego, California...

Palo Alto-based Bloc, a provider of online software and programming training, has acquired career services startup DevBridge, which helps place coding school graduates in jobs. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. DevBridg...

San Francisco-based DataHero, a startup developing cloud cost management software, has been acquired by fellow cloud software developer Cloudability, the two said this morning. The companies did not announced any financial details behind th...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle said late Tuesday that it has acquired AddThis, the developer of social sharing tools. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. AddThis is based in Vienna, Virginia, and was founded in 2004. Oracle ...

Redwood City-based Pierry Software, a provider of marketing software integration and consulting, said it has acquired C.TRAC, an interactive agency specializing in digital and direct mail marketing, database management, and related support ...

San Francisco-based private equity investor Thoma Bravo said today that it has acquired Infogix, a Naperville, Illinois-based company which provides data analysis for the enterprise market. Infogix was previously owned by H.I.G. Capital. Fi...

San Jose-based Cisco said right before the holidays that it has closed its acquisition of Lancope, in a deal worth $452.5M in cash and assumed equity awards. Lancope was based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Lancope beomes part of Cisco's Security ...

San Jose-based Cisco said right before the holidays that it has closed its acquisition of Lancope, in a deal worth $452.5M in cash and assumed equity awards. Lancope was based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Lancope beomes part of Cisco's Security ...

Mountain View-based Symantec and private equity investor The Carlyle Group said Monday afternoon that they now expect Carlyle's acquisition of Veritas to close on January 29th, rather than January 1st. Reason for the delay in closing was no...

Sunnyvale-based storage systems manufacturer NetApp has acquired flash storage startup SolidFire, in a deal worth $870M in cash, according to the two companies Monday. SolidFire is a developer of all-flash, data storage products for the ent...

Redwood Shores-based Oracle has acquired Docker management software developer StackEngine, Oracle said over the weekend. Financial details of the buy were not announced by either company, and very few details were announced by the companies...

Palo Alto-based data analytics software developer Metanautix, which dvelops SQL-drive database query software, has been acquired by Microsoft. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Microsoft said it will incorporate the t...

Palo Alto-based OMT (Open Monoclonal Technology), a developer of genetic engineering technology to allow animals to create human, therapeutic antibodies, has been acquired by Ligand in a $178M deal. Ligand said it will pay $92.6M in cash an...

San Francisco-based BuildingIQ, a developer of energy management software for the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) market, has raised $20M in an IPO on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The company was venture backe...

San Francisco-based ShopSavvy, a developer of mobile shopping apps, has been acquired by online publishing company Purch. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. ShopSavvy was backed by Facebook founder Eduardo Saverin, and was le...

San Francisco-based RPX, which provides patent risk management software, said Tuesday that it has acquired electronic discovery company Inventus Solutions. The deal was worth $232M in cash. Inventus is based in Chicago, and was owned by pri...

San Francisco-based Salesforce has acquired Palo Alto-based MinHash, a developer of machine learning software aimed at the marketing sector. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. MinHash said it will be shutting down its existing s...

Redwood City-based recipe discovery service Yummly has acquired San Francisco-based connected kitchen gadget maker The Orange Chef, according to the two companies. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The Orange Chef was...

Mountain View-based Quettra, a developer of mobile analytics software, has been acquired by SimilarWeb, the companies said this week, in a deal worth approximately $10M. Quettra was venture backed by Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Mi...

San Francisco-based Vendini, a provider of ticketing and management tools for live event organizers, has acquired CrowdTorch, an online ticketing service which was part of Cvent. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Vendini is led...

Sunnyvale-based Yahoo! said Wednesday that it is abandoning its plans to spin off its stake in Alibaba, and will instead look at "alternative transactoin structures" to separate the Alibaba stake from the company. Yahoo said it is looking t...

Los Gatos-based Pertino, a developer of cloud-based networking products aimed at distributed enterprises, has been acquired by Boise, Idaho-based Cradlepoint. Financial details of the deal were not announced by thec ompanies. CradlePoint is...

Palo Alto-based Kiwi Inc., a developer of Android videogames, has had its team acquired by SGN, SGN said today. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Kiwi Inc. was venture backed by Sequoia Capital, Northgate Capital, and DFJ. Ex...

San Francisco-based The Hunt, an online social site that helps users browse and find clothing, fashion, and other items, has been acquired by Pinterest. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Pinterst will shut down The Hunt in earl...

San Francisco-based Vevo announced this morning that it has acquired Showyou, a developer of curated, streaming video channels. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Showyou was firsst launched in 2011, and was founded by M...

San Francisco-based Lively, a developer of platforms to help monitor the safety of older family members, has been acquired by GreatCall, the companies said last week. Financial terms of the asset acquisition were not announced. Lively was f...

San Francisco-based University Now, the operator of a number of accredited, online education programs, has sold a learning software platform to Penn Foster Education Group. According to Penn Foster, it has acquired UniversityNow's competenc...

Mountain View-based Atheer, which develops augmented reality and smart glasses software, said this week that it has acquired ONtheGo Platforms, a developer of computer vision and gesture recognition software. Financial terms of the buy were...

Santa Clara-based eASIC has withdrawn its IPO plans, saying in a regulatory filing Friday that it has determined not to pursue the initial public offering it had registered for in February. No reason for the withdrawal was given by the comp...

Two, Bay Area companies--San Francisco-based SuperRewards, and Palo Alto-based Corona Labs, have been acquired by rewards platform developer Perk.com. Perk.com said it will issue 455,0000 shares of its common shares and pay $350,000 for Sup...

Petaluma, California-based MarketLive, a developer of e-commerce software, has been acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Vista Equity Partners, ...

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Sunnyvale-based PMC-Sierra and Microsemi said this morning that the two have reached an agreement, where Microsemi will pay approximately $2.5 billion to acquire PMC Sierra, in a deal worth $9.22 in cash and 0.0771 shares of Microsemi's com...

San Jose-based Cisco said Friday that it has agreed to acquire Acano Limited, a UK-based developer of collaboration infrastructure and conferencing software. Cisco said it would pay $700M in cash and assumed equity awards for Acano. Acano's...

San Francisco-based Square has seen a giant surge in its IPO, trading up more than 46% in morning trading, after pricing its IPO at $9.00 per share last night. Square traded as high as $14.78 in its IPO debut this morning, a significant bum...

San Francisco-based mobile payments provider Square has priced its IPO at $9.00 per share, below its initial estimated IPO range of $11.00 and $13.00 per share. Square will debut on the New York Stock Exchange as SQ on Friday morning. Squar...

San Jose-based Fairchild Semiconductor, the storied developer of power semiconductors, has been acquired by ON Semiconductor in a deal worth $2.4 billion in cash, the two said this morning. ON Semiconductor said it would pay $20.00 per ssha...

Oakland-based music streaming service Pandora said late Monday afternoon that it is acquiring some key asssets from Rdio, in a deal worth $75M in cash. Pandora said the technology, IP, and talent acquired from Rdio will go to expand its ser...

Sunnyvale-based PMC-Sierra said Monday morning that, under advice of its financial advisors and outside legal counsel, it is reiterating its commitment to the original offer by Skyworks Solutions to acquire the company, in a deal worth $11....

San Francisco-based Fuze, a provider of cloud-based videoconferencing services, has been acquired by ThinkingPhones>, the two said this morning. Fnancial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Fuze was venture backed by Index Venture...

San Jose-based PayPal said Thursday morning that it has completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based Xoom Corporation, which was worth $890M. PayPal agreed in July to pay $25.00 per share in cash for Xoom, which develops a service which...

Sunnyvale-based Trimble, which has had an insatiable appetite for acquisition over the past few years, has made yet another acquisition this week, of wireless water infrastructure monitoring company Telog Instruments. Financial details of t...