IBM is making waves in the tech industry with its announcement to acquire Confluent, a leading data streaming company, in a deal valued at $11 billion. The acquisition marks one of IBM’s largest ...

International Business Machines (IBM) has been one of 2025’s standout performers, with shares up more than 44% year-to-date—far exceeding the S&P 500’s roughly 16% gain. Despite this impressive rally ...

Sometimes investors freakout when a company makes a deal. That’s not the case with International Business Machines and its $11 billion purchase of Confluent, a deal that speaks to Big Blue’s lofty ...

IBM has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a ...

Confluent’s data-streaming platform helps data engineers move data that flows continuously – such as payments, orders and activity on a website – between databases, data lakes and AI systems. It also ...

IBM Corp. has acquired Cloudant Inc. in a move that extends IBM’s big data analytics, cloud computing and mobile offers and positions Big Blue for more competition with Amazon. IBM Corp. has acquired ...

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 ...