Dec, 2016 : CEO of AOL Believes Yahoo Acquisition Will Happen

📅 Dec 6, 2016 - Verizon Data Centers Being Bought by Equinix for $3.6 Billion - Another blockbuster deal was announced in the data center industry. Equinix will purchase a large portion of the data centers of Verizon Communications for $3.6 billion. Verizon has been trying to sell this portion of their data center business since the beginning of the year.

Equinix says it is purchasing 24 of the data center sites, which includes most of the sites Verizon acquired in 2011 from the acquisition of Terremark Worldwide. The deal is expected to be closed by the middle of 2017 and will give Equinix another 2.4 million gross square feet, while bringing their total data center numbers to ...

📅 Dec 6, 2016 - AOL CEO ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About Yahoo Deal - Following the cyber attack on 500 million Yahoo users, Verizon's deal to acquire Yahoo for $4.8 billion and merge it with AOL has stalled. Tim Armstrong the CEO of AOL is still optimistic that the deal will close. “I'm cautiously optimistic that it will happen,” he told recent attendants of the Business Insider's Ignition Conference. He added, “The companies are working well together. There's been a constructive dialog around things like the data breach that need to get resolved.”

Following Yahoo's announcement that it had been victim to a massive cyber attack in 2014, the deal was put in jeopardy.

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📅 Dec 6, 2016 - GoDaddy Purchases Host Europe - GoDaddy purchased Host Europe on Tuesday for $1.79 billion. This move will expand GoDaddy's a further reaching international presence, especially in the U.K. and Germany.

According to GoDaddy, the deal is expected to be finalized in the second quarter of 2017.

Host Europe started the search for a buyer earlier this year, with many companies showing interest, including United Internet and Deutsche Telekom.

GoDaddy's CEO Blake Irving said of the deal, “GoDaddy has successfully expanded its international business to 56 global markets over the past four years. HEG has built an impressive business that generates strong top-line growth, high margins, and industry-leading customer ...

📅 Dec 7, 2016 - Connectria Hosting To Offer HIPAA Compliance for Azure - Connectria Hosting, a cloud hosting and security company, will soon offer HIPAA Compliant environments for Azure. The company is headquartered out of St. Louis, Missouri with about 1,000 customers across the world. They are considered a pioneer in the HIPAA Compliance Managed Hosting space and cater to many healthcare organizations of all different sizes.

The new HIPAA compliance for Microsoft Azure will allows customers more choices. Connectria is offering this new option to provide even better support for their clients. They have been offering Azure for about two years ...

📅 Dec 7, 2016 - China’s HNA Group Closes Ingram Micro Acquisition - Chinese IT company HNA Group finally closed its $6 billion acquisition of U.S.-based Ingram Micro, the world's biggest IT distributor, this week, according to representatives from both companies. This acquisition marks the completion of what is being called “one of the most significant M&A deals in the channel this year.”

HNA Group's plans to acquire Ingram Micro were first announced in February 2016. The regulations have been difficult to navigate, as both regulations from China and the U.S. are at play in this acquisition. Ingram brought in new board members and executives at the time of the announcement.

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📅 Dec 7, 2016 - Big Tech Steps in to Stop Terrorist Propoganda from Spreading on Social - Tech giants like Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube announced that they will work together to help remove the social influence terrorist organizations currently have. Using social media, terrorist propaganda is allowed to spread online and help organizations recruit new members.

On Monday, the companies announced that they would create a database to track the digital fingerprints of these organizations, enabling them to quickly remove images and videos identified as originating from terrorist organizations. The database will be in action at the first of the year according to a statement released by Microsoft.

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