The big purchase is intended to help bolster IBM’s AI strategy. IBM said Monday it’s buying data streaming platform Confluent ...

On Dec. 8, 2025, International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) announced one of its most significant strategic moves in years, ...

Confluent connects data sources and cleans up data. It built its service on Apache Kafka, an open-source distributed event ...

To further expand its AI technology, IBM has turned to acquisitions -- and one of its next ones will be Cognitus. On the ...

Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka IBM has cracked open its wallet ...

IBM is in advanced talks to acquire data-infrastructure company Confluent for about $11 billion, the Wall Street Journal ...

International Business Machines Corp (NYSE: IBM) is reportedly in advanced discussions to acquire data-infrastructure company ...

IBM is hoping to help create the next generation of “big data” specialists through a series of partnerships with universities around the world, as well as influence the curriculum. Nine new agreements ...

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The proposed deal will see IBM acquire Confluent for $31 per share, which is a 30% premium over Confluent’s stock price prior ...

IBM expects that Databand.ai, along with IBM Observability by Instana APM and IBM Watson Studio, will help position IBM to address the full spectrum of IT data observability to find bad data issues ...

IBM hopes to help create the next generation of “big-data” specialists through a series of partnerships with universities around the world, as well as influence the curriculum. Nine new agreements ...