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...Advantech launched a software R&D centre in Pune last October and aims to hire hundreds of software engineers....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-JohnsonMy wild card hope for this year is that we see an end to what I call software as a disservice, which is that suite of employee software, HR software, which you nodded to in your...
...They formed the precursor to what’s now Thoma Bravo, the world’s largest software investor with $122bn in assets....
...Brooke Masters and Harriet Agnew report on asset managers pouring money into tech platforms, in a bid to emulate the success of BlackRock’s software as a service....
...Recent private equity deals undertaken by Elliott include the $16.5bn takeover of software company Citrix in January and the $17bn sale of Athenahealth to a consortium of private equity buyers....
...Antivirus software company McAfee is in advanced talks to go private in a deal worth more than $14bn including debt led by private equity firm Advent International, according to two people briefed on the...
...We are a software as a service business. We charge banks a transactional fee. Every loan that we analyse is a transactional charge....
...Cyber security software company McAfee has agreed to be taken over for $14bn by a consortium of investors led by private equity firms Advent International and Permira Advisers, in one of the largest leveraged...
...Lynch loses Autonomy fraud caseMike Lynch, the billionaire founder of software maker Autonomy, has lost a fraud case brought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise....
...regulations as regulators around the world, including in the US and Europe, step up their scrutiny over the business model of platform operators,” said Wi Jong-hyun, professor of business strategy at Chung-Ang...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...And earlier this month, Advent International and Permira Advisers struck a deal to take cyber security company McAfee private in an LBO valued at almost $15bn....
...There is a contrarian view that the leveraged buyout craze of the 1980s was not driven by the invention of junk bonds but by the advent of powerful spreadsheet software....
...The move sparked an outcry from software developers that alleged an abuse of market dominance....
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...Autocab, which struck the deal with Uber in August last year, provides taxi operators with booking and dispatch software and connects drivers with trips via an online marketplace. 3....
...The details: Tuesday: Software giant Microsoft and chipmaker AMD report....
...Advent International and software company Forescout Technologies agreed to reduce a buyout price by 12 per cent in July....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...As for Elliott, the normally ferocious distressed debt investor is now an owner of Travelport, the troubled software company whose creditors, including Blackstone’s GSO, are upset about a financing deal...
...The address on its entry corresponded to Pilot, a bookkeeping software start-up that Index has backed....
...Adobe, whose core software products were used by creative types like designers and illustrators, benefited from an explosion in digital content creation that came with the advent of smartphones and the cloud...
...Permira and Advent International have made a combined approach to take over the whole of Symantec, valuing the maker of Norton antivirus software at about $26 a share, said people briefed about the offer...
...“The spread of RISC-V in China could be the gateway to global adoption,” said Shumpei Kawasaki, chief executive of foundation member Software Hardware Consulting, a chip design concern with Japanese, American...
...However, private equity firms Permira and Advent International have approached Symantec about buying the entire company for more than $16bn....
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