Insights

Stay-at-home orders and remote work have made business leaders more aware of the inadequacies of legacy communication systems, leading to accelerated adoption of cloud infrastructure.

S&P Global and IHS Markit announced the biggest corporate merger of 2020 with a definitive agreement that values IHS Markit at $44bn.

The long-rumoured purchase of Slack by Salesforce has finally rumbled to the surface in a seismic deal for the enterprise software sector.

BT chief executive Philip Jansen has sent waves of speculation through the telecoms industry by saying at a conference that he would be “open-minded” about selling a stake in Openreach.

The rise of digital payments has created new opportunities for financial fraud, stoking demand for software that can detect suspicious payment activity.

Nvidia’s contentious acquisition of Arm has led to speculation that the firm won’t be able to maintain its neutrality, and that rivals could come to occupy a larger share of the open source chip market.