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Apollo Global Management acquires Tech Data for $5.4 billion

Distributor Tech Data has agreed to sell its outstanding shares to Apollo Global Management, totaling approximately US$5.4 billion in an all-cash deal.

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Apollo Global Management acquires Tech Data for $5.4 billion

Distributor Tech Data has agreed to sell its outstanding shares to Apollo Global Management, totaling approximately US$5.4 billion in an all-cash deal.

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Dell combines its hardware into a single autonomous infrastructure called PowerOne

*This story was updated Nov. 13 to include additional information and quotes from John Roese and Scalar,…

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Lenovo will produce an e-commerce PC as part of a partnership with Intel and Alibaba

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More collaborative features in new release

Canadian ISV builds micro-blogging alternative

New enterprise-ready tool to combat the walled garden of Web 2.0

Open Text acquires viewer technology

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