10.5937/industrija42-5782 = Verizon acquired Vodafone: Analysis of market reaction

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Lenovo acquired Motorola Mobility in a bipolar world of mobile phone makers

Singh¹

2017

Lenovo acquires IBM's x86 low-end server business

Singh¹

2015

This paper presents an analysis of the key events, impacts and issues of Lenovo buying IBM's x86 low-end server business. The analysis include (i) approval of the deal by regulatory bodies in the United States, Canada, India and China, (ii) security concerns of US government departments, (iii) pricing of the deals, (iv) possible impact on IBM in future, and (v) possibilities of Lenovo making it repeat of acquiring ThinkPad business of IBM. The paper presents analysis of qualitative and time series quantitative data. The qualitative data are mainly consists of different events before and after the acquisition of x86 server IBM business by Lenovo. The quantitative data are analyzed with respect to growth parameters of overall server business and Lenovo server business. Research paper also attempts to find out answer to specific 9 research questions with respect to impact on ecosystems of IBM and Lenovo. Based on analysis, it is inferred that IBM is not able to manage its traditional & well accepted products business in the face of fierce competition & low demand but Lenovo will manage. The deal was a financial necessity for IBM and strategic expansion in to new markets strategy for Lenovo.

Oracle acquired AI startup DataFox

Netra¹

2019

All the major artificial intelligence based product and service providers in the software industry are acquiring the AI startup to enhance the existing features and capabilities of their offerings to customers. Oracle is no exception to this strategy. It has acquired DataFox to enhance AI powered capabilities, expand available data sources for its business intelligence software. This paper is an attempt to study various facets of DataFox acquisitions such as deal itself, DataFox capabilities (products/applications, customers, competitors), reasons for Oracle to acquire DataFox, and its impact on existing products and applications of Oracle. In addition, the paper compares the acquisition with the model suggested by Bonzom and Netessine (2016) and concludes it is more for innovation, change in culture, reaching new markets, and having AI platform and less for problem solving by analysing nine propositions.