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IBM boosts AI portfolio with Confluent deal Offer price at 34% premium to Confluent's last close Deal to be funded with cash on hand, expected to close mid-2026 Acquisition will boost IBM's recurring ...

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 has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a ...

IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash in a bid to bolster its data and automation products as ever more companies move their tech operations to the cloud and ...

Dec 7 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab is in advanced talks to acquire data-infrastructure company Confluent (CFLT.O), opens new tab for about $11 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on ...

IBM is close to finalizing a deal to buy Confluent, a company that provides technology for managing real-time data streams used in large artificial intelligence models, reported The Wall Street ...

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The move reflects a rapidly intensifying race among technology giants to strengthen the data foundations required for generative and agentic AI. Source: IBM IBM has AI on its mind with plans to ...

With AI applications and agents increasing the demand for trusted real-time data, IBM plans to combine the Confluent platform with its AI infrastructure software and automation systems. IBM has struck ...

IBM announced on Monday it is acquiring Confluent for $11 billion, sending shares of the data streaming platform up about 29% in morning trading. By midday trading, at the time of this writing, ...