IBM Acquires Wireless-Analysis Company Now Factory

Computing services giant IBM said today that it will acquire the Now Factory, a privately held company based in Dublin, Ireland, that creates software used to analyze wireless network usage. Financial terms were not disclosed.

IBM said Now Factory's capabilities will be added to its MobileFirst Analytics portfolio of services that analyze business data and seek to optimize the experience customers have online.

Service providers are straining under the load of data demands as consumers try to use more video, gaming and other online data on their phones and tablets. The Now Factory adds capabilities to analyze how consumers interact with various services on their phones, and to yield faster insights on their behavior, Big Blue said.

Apple paid $7 million for Color Labs, sources say

“In a lawsuit filed today by a former founding employee of Color Labs, one moment of clarity emerged amidst some seriously salacious allegations: Color's approximately 20 person technology team and some of its key intellectual property assets were indeed acquired by Apple last month,” Colleen Taylor reports for TechCrunch.

“This deal was buzzed about a lot in the press, but to date neither company has provided on the record confirmation - this was a central point in the suit, since former Color employee Adam Witherspoon claims he was intentionally left out from the move to Apple,” Taylor reports.

Taylor reports, “TechCrunch has confirmed with sources involved that the Apple deal did indeed go through, and the price paid in all was $7 million.”

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