Software Industry News
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Jive Software Inc., which is growing three times faster than its peers, may become a takeover target for International Business Machines Corp. or Oracle Corp. after luring the attention of SAP AG.
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Global technology companies such as Samsung Electronics Co., Apple Inc. and Sony Corp. are poised to see surging sales in India as the country’s anemic tech manufacturing sector can’t fulfill booming demand for TVs and smartphones.
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Websense Inc., a website-filtering company that is shifting into Internet security, will be acquired by private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners for about $906 million.
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CommVault Systems Inc.’s sales growth from data-management software could be enough to spur companies such as International Business Machines Corp. to pursue what would be the industry’s most expensive deal in a decade.
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China’s software industry has “huge” growth potential given the nation’s economic expansion and government policies, according to Pansoft Co.
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Serbia will offer incentives to software companies to lure as many as 50,000 engineers after the industry’s exports rose to 2.3 percent of all sales abroad.
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The boom in big data means a takeover of Splunk Inc. could command the software industry’s highest price tag in five years.
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Before his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook, his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy, to chief executive officer of Apple Inc. would be drama-free.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it hired Hiroshi Kamide from BNP Paribas SA as a senior analyst for the software and game industry in Japan.
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A U.S. appeals court specializing in patent law grappled today with questions about when computer programs should be eligible for legal protection in a case that’s divided the judges and the software industry.
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