{"id":979286,"date":"2025-12-09T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979286"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:25:14","slug":"ai-expansion-ibm-snaps-up-confluent-in-11-billion-deal-data-streaming-seen-as-key-to-faster-ai-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/ai-expansion-ibm-snaps-up-confluent-in-11-billion-deal-data-streaming-seen-as-key-to-faster-ai-deployment\/","title":{"rendered":"AI expansion: IBM snaps up Confluent in $11-billion deal; data streaming seen as key to faster AI deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM on Monday announced a major acquisition to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities, agreeing to buy data streaming platform Confluent in a cash deal valued at $11 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The US technology major said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding common stock of Confluent Inc. for $31 per share in cash, implying an enterprise value of $11 billion, according to a joint statement by the two companies, reported AP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM on Monday announced a major acquisition to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities, agreeing to buy data streaming platform Confluent in a cash deal valued at $11 billion. The US technology major said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding common stock of Confluent Inc. for $31 per share in cash, implying an enterprise value of $11 billion, according to a joint statement by the two companies, reported AP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}