Cisco Sytems offered more than $20 billion to purchase Splunk Inc in what would have been Cisco’s largest deal ever, the Wall Street Journal reported . The offered was made recently, but the two are not currently in active talks, the Journal reported. The move matters because Cisco, the biggest seller of networking gear for data centers, last year set a goal to derive half of its sales from...
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Would TikTok have become a powerhouse without Musical.ly? As arcane as that question might appear, it could become the paramount issue in court if the Biden administration tries to force TikTok’s parent ByteDance to sell the app. That’s because ByteDance’s 2017 purchase of Musical.ly, a rival to the then-young TikTok, is what triggered the national security review that could...
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