Singapore telecommunications giant Singtel Holdings Ltd. has acquired Chicago-based information security company Trustwave Holdings Inc. for $810 million. Under the terms of deal, Singtel will own a 98 percent share of Trustwave, with CEO and Chairman of Trustwave Robert J. McCullen retaining the remaining two percent. The deal prices Trustwave at $850 million, excluding debt. “This strategic partnership creates an ...

Google Inc. is reported to be planning the launch of a new service that will connect users with home service providers. Buzzfeed claims that “sources close to the company” say the new service will link local home-service providers, such as plumbers and electricians, to Google users, and will be revealed at an advertising conference later this spring. ...

Enterprise data software as a service (SaaS) company Informatica Corp. has been acquired by private equity firm Permira Advisers LLC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). The price of the acquisition was $5.3 billion, or $48.75 per share of common stock. Under the deal Informatica will delist from the NASDAQ and become a private company. “After ...

Vivendi SA is reported to have offered $273 million to acquire French video site Dailymotion, the YouTube competitor that itself was acquired by Orange SA back in 2013. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Vivendi’s bid for the video site comes after the French Government had expressed opposition to its acquisition (in part or in full) ...

Linux distribution provider CoreOS has raised $20 million Series A in a round led by Google Ventures for $12 million and a follow on from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fuel Capital, and Accel Partners. This comes after an initial $8 million led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital. Based ...

Twitter Inc. has finally given users a feature that they’ve long desired by adding the ability embed another tweet (a retweet) and comment on it in full. Previously, when wanting to comment on a retweet, users were limited to commenting in the amount of characters left minus how long the retweet was, and for long ...

Even an Internet search giant apparently can’t make a good investment in Bitcoin with news today that Google Investments backed Buttercoin Inc. is closing its doors April 10th. The startup, which launched to much fanfare just four months ago, announced (offline at the time of writing) that despite claiming that they were 100% secure and ...

Messaging giant LINE Corp. has added to its ever-growing lists of features and add-ons with the official launch of its new dedicated selfie app that offers users 78 filters. The new app, called B612, after an asteroid upon which the character resides in the classic French novella, The Little Prince,  is available for free on iOS ...

In something that won’t come as a surprise to most followers of the Altcoin space, the founders of yet another cryptocurrency have been linked to Ponzi schemes. Dan Anderson and Atif Kamran, the founders of LEOCoin, have been linked to UNAICO Pakistan, an IT Services company that was accused of running a Ponzi scheme by the Securities ...

Global roaming rates are the bane of anyone who travels overseas, but what if you could sign up to a cell provider that didn’t charge you a penny more to use your phone on the road. That’s exactly what Google Inc. is planning on with a report over the weekend that it’s in negotiations to ...