American tech giant IBM announced last month the acquisition of Confluent, a pioneering company in data streaming, for $11 billion. The buyout will allow IBM to strengthen its AI platform and cloud ...

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 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 ...

IBM said it is acquiring Confluent in a deal worth $11 billion. The addition of Confluent will strengthen IBM's artificial intelligence portfolio. IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for all of the ...

This year, about 45 percent of the revenues at Big Blue will come from software. But IBM wants to push this up to half of revenues and then onwards from there. IBM also wants to find the modern AI era ...

ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and data streaming company Confluent today announced they have entered into an agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the ...

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 ...

Confluent surges after report of IBM’s $11B takeover talks. IBM seeks stronger cloud software momentum after recent slowdown. Deal underscores rising consolidation in data-infrastructure and AI ...

I suspect 3.14 may not be fully in your test matrix yet, so I'd suggest adding it and seeing if you can reproduce this, which I'm sure would be a lot quicker than round-tripping through me. But if you ...

Confluent is positioning itself as the "context layer for enterprise AI" with new capabilities that aim to solve the problem plaguing generative AI investments—lack of fresh, trustworthy data—by ...

Shares of Confluent Inc. closed 7.5% higher today following a report that it’s exploring a sale. Three sources told Reuters that the company, which commercializes Apache Kafka, has drawn takeover ...