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Dell’s Big Cloud Acquisition: Boomi

acquisitions_phag_thumbAt an event in Hong Kong this morning, Dell CEO Michael Dell said the company was readying an acquisition in the cloud-computing sector. “We continue to acquire new assets,” he said. “We will announce an acquisition that will accelerate this type of integration into the cloud.”

The Street was quick to speculate that Dell was looking at Rackspace or Brocade. Turned out it wasn’t either of them.

Moments ago, Dell said it will acquire Boomi, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) outfit that focuses on the integration side of the business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this is obviously a small acquisition for Dell. Boomi landed $4 million in venture funding in July of 2008 from FirstMark Capital and, as best I can tell, nothing more after that.

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work