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IBM sells its marketing and commerce software platforms to Centerbridge Partners, a private equity firm. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty continues to sell off aging assets.

Did Citrix Systems hire Goldman Sachs to explore company sale? Conflicting reports about the virtualization software company raise more questions than they answer.

Accenture acquires Droga5 creative & advertising agency. Overall, Accenture plans to spend $1.5 billion on digital, cloud and security acquisitions in its current fiscal year.

Dell Technologies Capital invests in Faction, an MSP that supports VMware Cloud on AWS. Faction's multi-cloud DRaaS push set to accelerate.

Evolve IP, backed by private equity, acquires Jog.ai to inject artificial intelligence (AI), speech analytics & natural language technology into contact centers.

Sungard Availability Services preps prepackaged bankruptcy filing. CEO vows no service interruptions. Huge debt load plus cloud backup services competition pressured former data protection star.

Calligo acquires Connected Technologies Inc. (CTI), a Microsoft Office 365 and Azure cloud partner that provides outsourced IT services.