IBM’s $11 billion acquisition of Confluent makes the latter an attractive arbitrage play with a potential 3.13% arbitrage premium over the risk-free 6-month treasury. Confluent adds a crucial data ...

IBM acquires Confluent to unify real-time data streaming, Kafka and hybrid cloud as enterprises scale generative and agentic AI across fragmented systems Enterprise technology companies are racing to ...

IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent in an USD 11 billion deal that signals how crucial real-time data has become for the next wave of enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI). Announced on December 8, ...

Big Blue, under CEO Arvind Krishna, has doubled down on M&A to beef up its cloud and software business - a high-growth, high-margin area - as customers invest to upgrade their digital infrastructure ...

IBM just acquired Confluent for $11 billion. When I was at IBM, I watched enterprises struggle with the same problem over and over again. Their data was always a step behind their decisions. This ...

Sometimes, investors freak out when a company makes a deal. That wasn’t the case with International Business Machines and its $11 billion purchase of Confluent, a deal that speaks to Big Blue’s lofty ...

IBM said on Monday it will buy data infrastructure company Confluent in a deal valued at $11 billion, ramping up its cloud-computing offerings to capitalise on an AI-driven demand boom. The offer ...

IBM has announced on Monday, 8 December that it will acquire Confluent in a $11 billion deal, aiming to expand its footprint in Artificial Intelligence footprint, the tech giant said in a press ...

To advance its capabilities in the AI age, International Business Machines (IBM) is all set to acquire Nasdaq-listed Confluent for $11 billion in an all-cash deal. This will mark IBM’s second-biggest ...

IBM has agreed to acquire data streaming company Confluent for approximately $11 billion, or $31 per share in cash, as part of efforts to build and deliver a data platform that could enable ...

IBM is in talks to buy Confluent for $11bn to advance its cloud and AI plans. Confluent’s platform gives AI agents steady data and aligns with IBM’s shift from large AI data centres. Talks between IBM ...

IBM (IBM +0.26%) wants to be an artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse. The tech giant is scooping up data-streaming dynamo Confluent (CFLT +0.30%) to add to its growing collection of AI-enablers.