Today’s Market: Paramount in Talks for Merger, IBM-Microsoft Cybersecurity on the Radar

Today’s Market: Paramount in Talks for Merger, IBM-Microsoft Cybersecurity on the Radar

The stock market showed positive gains on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite all closing higher. The Nasdaq reached a new all-time high, driven by strong performances from mega-cap companies like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla. However, market breadth was negative, with declining stocks outnumbering advancing stocks on both … Read more

UK antitrust authorities investigate merger between HPE and Juniper

UK antitrust authorities investigate merger between HPE and Juniper

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation into HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks may not have a significant impact on data center administrators, according to John Annand of Info-Tech Research Group. The companies have different but complementary product lines, and the potential delay in approval will not disrupt data center upgrades scheduled … Read more

Wall Street Journal Reports U.K. Regulatory Agency to Review Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Juniper Networks Merger

The UK regulator is set to review the proposed merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The move comes as part of an effort to ensure competition remains strong in the technology sector. The merger, which was announced earlier this year, has raised concerns about … Read more

Building a Simplified & Stronger Advantage Program for VMware by Broadcom – VMware News and Stories

Building a Simplified & Stronger Advantage Program for VMware by Broadcom – VMware News and Stories

Business team with gears system overlay. Teamwork, partnership and integration concept with network effect. double exposure As we welcome our new partners into our Broadcom Advantage Partner Program, we want to share more details about how our innovative go-to-market approach helps drive partner success.  Share “Building a Simplified & Stronger Advantage Program for VMware by … Read more

Hundreds of Employees Face Layoffs in Wake of Broadcom-VMware Merger

Hundreds of Employees Face Layoffs in Wake of Broadcom-VMware Merger

Broadcom Inc., which has been in the process of acquiring enterprise software giant VMware Inc. for 18 months, will lay off at least 401 VMware employees — 184 in Broomfield, Colo. and 217 in Atlanta — less than one week after it completed the $69 billion merger on Nov. 22. This is merely the first … Read more

Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies

Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a  billion merger of the two companies

Chip manufacturer Broadcom wrote the latest chapter in the long story of return-to-office tensions between bosses and employees.  After completing its $69 billion acquisition of cloud computing company VMWare, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan issued a direct order to his new employees about where they must work. “If you live within 50 miles of an office, … Read more