Mergers and Acquisitions
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AMD Acquires Xilinx, Microsoft’s Earnings, Teams Wins
AMD’s Xilinx acquisition makes sense, even if it’s a bit boring; Teams, meanwhile, is the clear winner of the cloud integration opportunity.
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Twilio Acquires Segment, What is Segment, An Interview with Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson
Why Twilio bought Segment, and an interview with Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson
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Microsoft and ZeniMax, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft and COVID
More on Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax and how it fits in with the company’s Xbox strategy, and then a review of the big themes from the company’s Ignite conference.
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2020 Bundles
The state of bundles in 2020: Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. Plus, Microsoft’s purchase of ZeniMax.
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Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.
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Uber + Grubhub?, Aggregator Acquisitions, Uber and Lime
An Uber acquisition of GrubHub makes all kinds of sense, but for the same reasons that it will be frowned upon by regulators (and for good reason). Then, Uber’s investment in Lime makes sense as well.

