IBM announced it has acquired Blue Box Group, Inc., a managed private cloud provider built on OpenStack. Blue Box is a privately held company based in Seattle that provides businesses with a simple, private cloud as a service platform, based on OpenStack. Customers benefit from the ability to more easily deploy workloads across hybrid cloud environments. Financial details were not disclosed.
Accurate allocation measurement results are a key financial and commercial driver for E&P companies. Yet despite limited evidence of the performance of Coriolis and ultrasonic flow meter technology, they are being increasingly deployed for single phase oil flows contaminated with water or natural gas. DNV GL has initiated a Joint Industry Project (JIP), now open for industry partners, E&P companies and manufacturers to join, to assess the capability and feasibility of the meters.
Microsoft has acquired Wunderkinder GmbH, the creator of the to-do list app, Wunderlist.
The addition of Wunderlist to the Microsoft product portfolio focuses on its mobile and cloud initiatives. Building on its Microsoft Office, OneNote and Skype for Business, as well as the recent Sunrise and Acompli acquisitions, it further shows Microsoft's direction to delivering mobile apps across the platforms and devices its customers use for mail, calendaring, messaging, notes and now tasks.
Strengthens Emerson Process Management's role in the oil and gas transmission operations business
Rockwell Automation and Cisco are partnering to offer new training and certification offerings focused on the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), the connected enterprise, and convergence of operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems. The focus of this training and certification is on workers within industrial organizations who design and oversee unified network infrastructures.
Teradyne has signed an agreement to purchase Universal Robots (UR), the world's leading maker of collaborative robots (cobots), based in Odense, Denmark. Cobots are low-cost, easy-to-deploy, simple-to-program robots that work side by side with production workers to improve quality and increase manufacturing efficiency.
MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measure, control, power, monitor and analyze critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes, announces the acquisition of Precisive, LLC, for $13 million in an all-cash transaction.
ARC has been opining for some time now on how low oil and natural gas prices would present opportunities for stronger companies to acquire weaker companies' oil & gas acreage, products or solutions at dimes on the dollar that they would have paid a little less than one year ago. Although not as large as the blockbuster deal of Shell acquiring BG deal, Noble Energy Inc. agreed to acquire Rosetta Resources Inc.
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation, has acquired LimeWare, a provider of system analysis and auditing software for Schneider Electric's Foxboro Evo process automation and I/A Series distributed control systems. The acquisition provides "foxray" software to help customers pinpoint and address critical industry challenges.
ABB, the leading power and automation group, announced it acquired Gomtec GmbH to expand its offering in the field of collaborative robots. The parties agreed not to disclose financial terms of the transaction.
Gomtec, based near Munich, Germany, is a privately held company that develops mechatronic systems combining mechanical, electrical, telecommunications, control and computer engineering for customers in diverse industries. It has 25 employees.