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IPO, acquisitions and now a Super Bowl ad, Seattle’s Porch caps a high-profile stretch

GeekWire

The 30-second spot, with a reported price tag of $5.5 Porch went public at the end of 2020 , raising more than $322 million through a merger with PropTech Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition corporation, and a private investment from Wellington Management Company.

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Decoding the Qualtrics deal: Was the firm a good fit for SAP?

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP’s acquisition of a majority stake at customer experience (CX) software firm Qualtrics back in 2018 for $8 billion was never a match made in heaven. For SAP, Qualtrics was not the only acquisition in the CX space. The leadership doesn’t see any change for Qualtrics’ strategy as a result of the acquisition.

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Putting a value on your company information

CTOvision

As a result, over 50% of merger and acquisition exchanges can’t be accounted for. Take for example the Microsoft acquisition of LinkedIn earlier in 2016. These organizations such as Google, are often tagged with a high stock price. Today that number is 20%. The tangible and intangible assets come nowhere close to the $26.2

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It’s time to go paperless: are bank branches ready?

CIO Business Intelligence

Her bank, currently undergoing an acquisition, has conducted five mergers in the past ten years and consolidated approximately 40 branches. Complexity : Many banks have gone through acquisitions, divestitures, or consolidation, leading to a great commingling of files. Time to play ‘what’s in the box?’

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Why on Earth did Amazon spend $8 billion on a zombie studio?

The Verge

The acquisition offers an opportunity for Amazon to spin the spy films into a big perk for its streaming services. Of the $8 billion price tag, Trendacosta said, “it’s going to seem like an idiot move in about five years — because that’s not actually what the value of any of this stuff is.”.

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There are more streaming choices than ever — why are prices going up?

The Verge

So even as the number of TV services has shot up, the number of major channel owners has become more and more consolidated over the years through acquisitions and mergers. As a result, there’s less and less competition where it counts: on the carrier side that sets the prices.

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How does Salesforce use artificial intelligence to transform businesses?

Dataconomy

Account Insights: getting information on accounts, their spending decisions, company changes in leadership, mergers, and acquisitions. Content Tagging : tagging files to find them faster. Opportunity Insights: recognizing client sentiments from the collected and analyzed data. Copy Insights : optimizing email headlines.