Acquisition stories - Page 244

RSA appoints Andy Solterbeck as General Manager for ANZ, aiming to boost the enterprise and mid-market segments. Solterbeck hails from Telstra.

Citrix boosts cloud offerings with the acquisition of New Zealand's EMS-Cortex, simplifying hosted services provision with Cortex technology.

Proposed change to the Telecommunications Amendment Bill could allow the government to buy back parts of Telecom.

Google and Facebook's exploratory acquisition talks with Twitter have stalled, with a hefty price tag of $8-10 billion cited.

Business intelligence, collaboration, content management, social software and supply chain management will be 2011's major trends, says Gartner.

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IT executives never consciously decide to create chaos and sub-optimisation in their file transfer environments. But chaos happens anyway, as systems evolve.

Lawsuit launched to prevent Motorola from transferring Huawei's IP secrets to Nokia Siemens Networks following a looming acquisition.

Aerohive Networks - distributed locally by Connector Systems - has acquired privately-held cloud-based networking firm, Pareto Networks.

The snappily-named super group 'Datacraft-Integral Axon' has announced three new appointments to its Supply Chain team.

Mitel appoints Richard McBee as CEO, eyeing growth with his 20+ years in telecoms and plans to steer the firm towards global expansion.

AspireTel expands its horizon by acquiring Dot Net in a strategic move aimed at boosting customer revenues and services.

Telcoinabox unveils 'mobile-in-a-box', revolutionising NZ's reseller market with a cost-efficient, wholesale mobile solution amid high demand.

Salesforce launches Chatter Free, a game-changing enterprise collaboration app, aiming to boost social collaboration within firms.

PC Tools, bolstered by its Symantec acquisition, launches its affordable anti-virus software at Dick Smith in New Zealand, marking a direct retail expansion.

David Higgins moves from Sophos to drive new customer acquisitions as Business Development Director at Trend Micro ANZ, bringing years of IT expertise.

Intel reveals 12 tech trends to look for in 2011, including the rise of Smart TVs, tablet mania, context-aware computing, and robust security enhancements.

Oxygen IT celebrates the success of the Zimbra email system with 1000 enquiries and new reseller partnerships, including Computerworx.

Datacraft's acquisition of Integral Axon is now unconditional, doubling its New Zealand business with 400 clients and nearly 600 employees.

Adobe launches Connect 8, boosting its web conferencing with a sleek interface, enhanced collaboration tools, and better audio/video integration.