Mergers & Acquisitions

Persistent Systems Acquires Herald Health™, Transforming Healthcare Data Overload Into Clear and Actionable Insights

Persistent Systems Acquires Herald Health™, Transforming Healthcare Data Overload Into Clear and Actionable Insights PR Newswire SANTA CLARA, California and PUNE, India, September 5, 2018 SANTA CLARA, California and PUNE, India , September 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Boston -based startup born out of Brigham and Women ‘ s Hospital hackathon Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) today announced the acquisition of Herald Health™, a start-up created to transform the data overload swamping healthcare professionals into clear and actionable insights. Born out of a hackathon sponsored by the Digital Innovation Hub (iHub) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2015, Herald Health has developed a nationally recognized product bringing intelligent workflows and care delivery processes needed for digital transformation in healthcare. […]

Stock Analysts

Aegion (AEGN) Divests Pipe Coating & Insulation Unit, Bayou

Aegion Corporation AEGN has divested its wholly-owned subsidiary, The Bayou Companies, LLC, to Altamont Capital Partners. The asset sale is in line with Aegion’s strategic initiatives that are targeted to generate more predictable and sustainable long-term earnings growth. Meanwhile, Aegion also sold its 51% membership interest in Bayou Wasco Insulation, LLC, as part of the transaction […]

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Atlassian Enters ServiceNow’s ITSM Turf With OpsGenie Buyout

Atlassian Corporation Plc TEAM recently announced that it is acquiring OpsGenie for $295 million to strategically enter the IT operations software market, which is currently dominated by ServiceNow Inc. NOW . OpsGenie has already been integrated into the company’s end-to-end incident management platform, Jira Ops, which incidentally was introduced on the day of the acquisition announcement. […]

Stock Analysts

Gold Falls Below $1,200: What Led to the Plunge?

Gold prices have dropped below the psychological level of $1,200, owing to a stronger dollar, solid momentum in the U.S. manufacturing sector, expectations of higher interest rates in the United States and escalating global trade tensions. In fact, the yellow metal has lost about 8% so far this year, primarily weighed down by the strong US dollar against both developed and emerging market currencies, especially, weakening of the Chinese yuan and Turkish lira […]