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Last week, Cisco announced its intention to acquire Splunk for $157 per share in cash, representing approximately $28 billion in equity value. Upon the close of the acquisition, Splunk President and ...

Big data software provider Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK) has made five acquisitions since the beginning of 2017. Mega-mergers and acquisitions get a lot of attention these days, but many of them are made by a ...

Generally speaking, the summer television extravaganza known as Shark Week is Discovery Communication's version of Christmas. How the Silver Spring, Md.-based media company performs during those ...

Splunk, the market leader for SIEM expects a slow FY24 with revenue growth of only 9%. The TAM for security, monitoring and observability is massive, growing and under penetrated and Splunk can ...

SignalFx was last valued at $500 million. Now, Splunk will acquire it for $1.05 billion. Here's why Splunk believes SignalFx's products are valuable.

Splunk, a machine data platform that is one of the most versatile products in the software sector, is down 50% from all-time highs. Though it's hard to tell from Splunk's fundamentals, the company is ...

The software company has made several important acquisitions to solidify its upward trajectory. Splunk's strategy is different: It's all about acquiring other fast-growing companies like itself that ...