IBM’s landmark acquisition of data streaming leader Confluent for $11 billion marks a pivotal move to dominate enterprise AI integration. Confluent’s stock surged 29% on the news, reflecting massive ...

IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent in an USD 11 billion deal that signals how crucial real-time data has become for the next wave of enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI). Announced on December 8, ...

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 ...

International Business Machines is turning to a big-money acquisition as it looks to maintain an artificial-intelligence advantage. The technology giant announced on Monday that it planned to purchase ...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is buying data-streaming platform Confluent in a bid to bolster its AI offerings. The deal, worth $11 billion (€9.44bn) in total, will see IBM pay $31 ...

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 ...

$11B acquisition to deliver end-to-end data platform for businesses to connect, process and govern data for applications and AI agents Transaction expected to be accretive to adjusted EBITDA within ...

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 ...

Investing.com -- IBM announced Monday that it will acquire Confluent Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT) for $31 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion. According to Jefferies in a note ...

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 ...

IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent for $11 billion. Confluent specializes in data and event streaming, enabling applications and AI agents to communicate without hard dependencies. IBM expects the ...