Category Archives: Acquisitions & Mergers

Startel Announces Merger with Alston Tascom

Startel Corporation, a provider of unified business communications for contact centres and telephone answering services (TAS), announced its merger with Alston Tascom, a provider of premise-based and hosted TAS solutions for call centers. Effective September 1, 2017, Alston Tascom is now a wholly owned business unit of Startel. Continue reading Startel Announces Merger with Alston Tascom

Enghouse Systems Limited Acquires Survox

Enghouse Systems announced it has broadened its contact center portfolio by acquiring Survox, Inc. of San Francisco. Survox is a well-established, multi-mode, voice-based survey automation software and services provider. Its offerings enable market research, facilitate opinion polling and enhance brand equity by efficiently conducting surveys. Continue reading Enghouse Systems Limited Acquires Survox

SYNNEX Completes Acquisition of Westcon-Comstor North America and Latin America Businesses

SYNNEX Corporation announced the completion of the acquisition of the Westcon-Comstor Americas businesses and minority investment in Westcon EMEA and APAC businesses. The acquisition solidifies SYNNEX as a leader in security, UCC and networking, providing deep strength, capabilities, and comprehensive offerings in these attractive markets. Continue reading SYNNEX Completes Acquisition of Westcon-Comstor North America and Latin America Businesses

Westcon-Comstor completes sale of its Americas businesses to SYNNEX

Westcon-Comstor announced that its parent company, Datatec Limited, has completed the sale of its North America and Latin America distribution business (“Americas”), as well as a minority share in its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) business, to SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE:SNX), a Fremont, California-based company. Continue reading Westcon-Comstor completes sale of its Americas businesses to SYNNEX

Lithium to Acquire External Online Community Business from Jive

Lithium Technologies, the market leader in social media management and online community products announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Jive Software’s external community business from Jive Software, an Aurea company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Continue reading Lithium to Acquire External Online Community Business from Jive

Freshworks Acquires Marketing Software Provider Zarget

Freshworks, the leading provider of cloud-based business software, announced the acquisition of Zarget, a leading marketing software startup that provides marketers and designers with a suite of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) tools helping them understand how users interact with their websites. This is the ninth acquisition made by Freshworks over the last two years and will help the company focus on building marketing solutions for businesses of all sizes. Continue reading Freshworks Acquires Marketing Software Provider Zarget