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  • VMware to Buy AirWatch for $1.2B; Pat Gelsinger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware to Buy AirWatch for $1.2B; Pat Gelsinger Comments

    VMware Inc. has agreed to acquire mobile management and security provider AirWatch for nearly $1.2 billion in cash and $365 million of installment payments and equity. The AirWatch team will continue reporting to John Marshall, founder and CEO, and will operate within VMware’s end-user computing group led by Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general […] More

  • GE to Buy Software and Analytics Provider API Healthcare; Michael Swinford Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE to Buy Software and Analytics Provider API Healthcare; Michael Swinford Comments

    General Electric Co. has moved to strengthen its industrial Internet strategy by agreeing to buy healthcare management software and analytics provider API Healthcare for an undisclosed amount. API Healthcare’s offerings will be integrated into GE Healthcare’s hospital operations management services for hospitals to access operational data in real time, said Tuesday. Michael Swinford, president and CEO […] More

  • Microsoft Seeks to Build Customer Service Offerings with Parature Purchase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Seeks to Build Customer Service Offerings with Parature Purchase

    Microsoft has sought to build its customer relationship management portfolio with a move to purchase cloud-based customer service software company Parature. The acquisition will see Parature’s customer self-service suite implemented as part of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM with a goal to engage users in an environment with large numbers of networks and connections, Microsoft said Tuesday. […] More

  • SageNet CEO Daryl Woodard to Hold Chief Exec Role at Spacenet Post-Acquisition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SageNet CEO Daryl Woodard to Hold Chief Exec Role at Spacenet Post-Acquisition

    Daryl Woodard, CEO of Tulsa, Okla.-based business and managed services provider SageNet, will also serve as chief executive of the recently-acquired Spacenet, a Washington-headquartered network services contractor. The transaction completed in December 2013 and both companies aim to complete their full integration in mid- to late- 2014, Spacenet announced Monday. Glenn Katz, outgoing Spacenet CEO, […] More

  • Motorola Solutions Buys Comm App Firm Twisted Pair Solutions; Bob Schassler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions Buys Comm App Firm Twisted Pair Solutions; Bob Schassler Comments

    Motorola Solutions has purchased software communications company Twisted Pair Solutions for an undisclosed amount in an effort to grow push-to-talk over broadband offerings. Twisted Pair will become a subsidiary of Motorola Solutions and be a part of the latter company’s government solutions business, the companies said Thursday. “We recognize that our customers have multiple communications […] More

  • Jacobs Closes $1.2B Sinclair Knight Merz Buy; Craig Martin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Closes $1.2B Sinclair Knight Merz Buy; Craig Martin Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has acquired Australian professional services company Sinclair Knight Merz for $1.2 billion in an effort to expand in various regions, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. Stuart Pfeifer writes that Jacobs anticipates its annual revenue to grow by 10 percent due to the transaction. Craig Martin, Jacobs CEO, told the newspaper the company […] More