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Netflix Acquires Oxenfree Developer Night School Studio

Night School Studio is the team behind the beloved adventures games Oxenfree and Afterparty. But after seven years of working as an independent studio, the developer is being acquired by streaming giant Netflix. This is surprising but not a complete shock. Netflix has been working to break into the gaming industry for some time. However, this is the first time Netflix […]

Elastic acquires continuous profiling company Optimyze to improve cloud efficiency

Elastic has announced plans to acquire Optimyze, the company behind the continuous profiling platform Prodfiler. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The news follows less than two months after Elastic, the company behind the Elasticsearch big data analytics and search engine, acquired two cloud security companies called Cmd and Build.Security. With Optimyze under its […]

Zendesk acquires customer service automation startup Cleverly.ai

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Zendesk today announced that it acquired Cleverly.ai, a Lisbon, Portugal-based platform that finds answers to customer’s questions by creating a knowledge layer on top of apps. Zendesk says that it’ll integrate Cleverly’s technology across its existing products, enabling teams to […]

SAP acquires AI-powered human resources platform SwoopTalent

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! SAP today announced that it acquired the intellectual property of SwoopTalent, a platform that automatically connects companies’ talent systems and data for analytics, migrations, and machine learning. As a part of the deal, SAP says it’ll embed SwoopTalent’s technology throughout […]

Vertigo Games Acquires Force Field, Working On 'AAA VR Game'

Arizona Sunshine and After The Fall developer Vertigo Games is acquiring Amsterdam-based Force Field. Vertigo acquired all of Force Field’s shares for an undisclosed sum. Force Field will be renamed to Vertigo Amsterdam and, according to a press release, will continue work on “an unannounced AAA game based on a well-known IP.” The core Vertigo […]

AllCloud acquires Integress to boost data analytics for cloud services

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Professional cloud services provider AllCloud this week announced its acquisition of Integress, a data analytics company providing business intelligence to customers in industries ranging from financial services and insurance to transportation. AllCloud’s goal is to bring better data integration and data visualization to cloud-oriented […]

IBM acquires Bluetab to expand hybrid cloud service offerings

Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! A week after snatching up startup BoxBoat, IBM today announced another acquisition to expand its portfolio of data, cloud, and analytics services. With Bluetab, IBM aims to further advance its hybrid cloud and AI strategy across Europe, Latin […]

HPE acquires Ampool to gain distributed SQL engine

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week revealed that it has acquired Ampool, a provider of a distributed SQL engine based on the open source Presto project that allows users to access data stored in multiple databases. HPE […]

Dataminr acquires event tracker WatchKeeper to augment real-time alerts

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time information alerts, today announced that it purchased WatchKeeper, a data geovisualization platform, for an undisclosed amount. Dataminr, which says that the acquisition — its first — was a direct result […]