Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

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Cisco announces its intent to acquire Slido s.r.o., a technology company that provides a best-in-class audience interaction platform, enabling higher levels of user engagement. The Slido technology will be part of the Cisco Webex platform and enhance Cisco’s ability to offer new levels of inclusive audience engagement across both in-person and virtual experiences.

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Customer expectations are on the rise and these expectations are set not just by your competition, they are set by every brand your customers interact with. The world is moving away from impersonal and sterile experiences with large companies, to more personal interactions like a conversation between friends. Think about your interactions with your best […]

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2020 has been the year of digital disruption and the pace of change is not likely to slow down. So how can IT continue to optimize digital experience in a hyper-distributed and ever-changing world?

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1/15/20 Update: Cisco has completed the acquisition of Banzai Cloud. Welcome to Cisco! As modern cloud-native applications become more pervasive, the environments in which these applications run are becoming thinner (containers, microservices, functions), increasingly distributed and more geographically diverse. Emerging cloud infrastructure technologies give rise to unique implementation challenges as the modern cloud-native application relies […]

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10/26/2020 Update: We have completed the acquisition of Portshift. Welcome to Cisco! As the proliferation of cloud-native apps continues to accelerate with the aim to transact business efficiently and securely from anywhere, the security landscape is converging toward protecting both people and applications. Business agility requirements are pushing security up the stack and earlier in […]

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Cisco will bring BabbleLabs' native noise removal capability to our Webex collaboration portfolio. BabbleLabs is at the forefront of using advanced AI techniques to distinguish human speech from any unwanted noise. That means vacuums, sirens and other distracting noises are silenced and your voice comes through clearly.

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I am pleased to announce Cisco’s acquisition of Modcam, a privately held, video analytics company headquartered in Malmӧ, Sweden. In acquiring Modcam, Cisco is investing in a team of highly talented engineers who bring a wealth of expertise in machine learning, computer vision and cloud-managed cameras.

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Cisco announces close of Fluidmesh Networks acquisition.

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Derek Idemoto, recently named SVP of Corporate Development and Cisco Investments, shares how he has the best job in the world – managing a team of domain experts, partnering with business unit leaders on strategy, and engaging with venture capitalists, investment banks, entrepreneurs and founders.