The company understands that its future relies in leveraging BigData and the power of the network over the existing markets for cloud-based HR or talent acquisition software.
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For example, a lot of critical infrastructure and manufacturing processes use supervisory, control and data acquisition software (SCADAS) that, as it turns out, have lots of security holes.
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Another part of what's driving Clear Standards' growth is its acquisition by software giant SAP, announced in June.
Google bought at least part of that sandboxing ability with its acquisition of software firm GreenBorders in May of 2007.
Is that why the company is supposedly interested in having a browser through the acquisition of Opera Software?
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The company expects to close the pending acquisition of Quest Software in the second half of the third quarter.
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Chuang thinks software acquisition and development costs are already out of control, and products like his will lead to more cost-cutting.
Web portal giant Google (GOOG) entrance into the online travel business is an eventuality with the 2010 acquisition of ITA Software.
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Net headcount growth (excluding approximately 450 employees hired as part of the acquisition of ITA Software) was similar to the first quarter of 2011.
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He is the most prominent casualty of the acquisition of British software company Autonomy, much of the value of which has now been written off.
With the acquisition of ITA Software in April 2011, Google has launched its own online travel search product and a hotel and flight search tool.
That includes 450 people hired via the ITA Software acquisition.
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However, following its acquisition of ITA software in April 2011, Google has leveraged the same to launch its own online travel search product and hotel and flight search tool.
In the public sector realm, Gianforte says RightNow goes up most against Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), given its 2006 acquisition of customer software concern Siebel Systems.
With the acquisition of Fortify Software, HP will offer a complete, market-leading solution that helps organizations reduce business risk, meet compliance regulations and protect against malicious application attacks by integrating security assurance seamlessly across the application life cycle.
Those bits will be generated by application software designed and managed from the EDS acquisition, and hopefully travel through routers from the 3Com acquisition, in data centers managed by software HP built and acquired.
Now they have revealed dozens of vulnerabilities in the supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) software that much national infrastructure and manufacturing industry depends upon.
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During the quarter, we also strengthened our offering portfolio through the acquisition of a premiere software development company that specializes in big data, analytics and advanced applications.
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On Monday, Dillon Beresford, an analyst for security auditing firm NSS Labs, took aim at Siemens in a message to a mailing list devoted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software used in physical systems like power plants and factories.
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On Sun's part, the acquisition gives the server and software company a database offering that is capable of storing and manipulating the information used by its software tools, a role it has largely handed to Oracle.
The industry giants certainly know about and have products in this field, from Siemens to Honeywell, the latter notably with a 2005 acquisition of Tridium for its software that integrates diverse building systems and devices using a Web browser.
Just last month, the European Union's competition directorate began an investigation into Microsoft and Time Warner, a large media firm, on the grounds that their proposed joint acquisition of ContentGuard, a software firm whose products protect digital media files, might provide Microsoft with undue market power over digital media standards.
Microsoft's sprawling business division now competes with Cisco for the business of digitizing office voice communications (bolstered by Raikes' acquisition of voice-recognition software specialist Tellme last March) and Elop will have to take on online threats to Microsoft's productivity software, such as the free online productivity tools offered by Google, as well.
Microsoft's sprawling business division now competes with Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) for the business of digitizing office voice communications (bolstered by Raikes' acquisition of voice-recognition software specialist Tellme last March) and Elop will have to take on online threats to Microsoft's productivity software, such as the free online productivity tools offered by Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), as well.
Goldman has also installed Nasdaq trading software from its Hull acquisition at Spear Leeds.
Software from another Google acquisition, Skia, will put a slick user interface on the package.
Microsoft hopes the acquisition will make its range of software products more appealing.
In short, the experience will evolve to become a content acquisition and discovery tool and a software system that could tie together multiple devices in a wireless home.
Potential targets for acquisition include Moveable Type, a software-based Web-log service, and Radio Userland, another desktop software product used for publishing Web logs produced by privately held UserLand Software of Acton, Mass.
James Faucette, a wireless analyst at Pacific Crest Securities said Motorola's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) acquisition of mobile e-mail software vendor Good Technology could make Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) a good fit for Motorola.
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