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IBM is betting $11 billion that real-time data infrastructure will become as critical to AI deployments as databases were to enterprise applications. The company's just-announced acquisition of ...

IBM acquires Confluent for $11 billion, signaling major expansion in AI data streaming infrastructure. Confluent stock jumps 29% as investors react to IBM’s transformative acquisition announcement.

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 ...

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 will pay $11 billion in cash to acquire Confluent. Confluent is a much smaller tech stock, and growing much faster than IBM. In a press release this morning, IBM announced the deal as a signed, ...

International Business Machines is turning to a big-money acquisition as it looks to maintain an artificial-intelligence advantage. The technology giant announced on Monday that it planned to purchase ...

IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent for $11 billion. Confluent specializes in data and event streaming, enabling applications and AI agents to communicate without hard dependencies. IBM expects the ...

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 ...

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