The move reflects a rapidly intensifying race among technology giants to strengthen the data foundations required for ...

While $11 billion is a lot of money to spend, IBM is betting that acquiring Confluent and its popular data streaming platform ...

The proposed deal will see IBM acquire Confluent for $31 per share, which is a 30% premium over Confluent’s stock price prior ...

IBM will acquire Confluent for approximately $11 billion to advance enterprise AI with an end-to-end data platform.

Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka IBM has cracked open its wallet ...

Confluent is increasingly looking to its partner base—particularly systems integrators (SI) and distributors—as it attempts to harness the wave of innovation generated by agentic AI. According to ...

IBM accelerates cloud drive with $11 billion Confluent deal as AI demand booms IBM said on Monday it will buy data infrastructure company Confluent in a deal valued at $11 billion, ramping up its ...

President Trump says he'll sign an executive order this week that would let Washington overrule state-level AI laws —a move coming fresh off a defeat in Congress, where lawmakers stripped a similar ...

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