Last December we met NewCo, the new joint venture of Autocasión Hoy and Autoscout24 España. The Vocento Group will lead this association of companies dedicated to the online classification of cars in Spain.
In a final section, we will mention the most relevant international sales of companies in the sector.
We analyse from our corporate finance perspective the most recent buyout of Atos, a company that provides consulting services and solutions. We will explain in a brief space some interesting facts about the French company and its last five acquisitions. We highlight the operation made with Syntel for a value of 3,400 million dollars.
We rank the most significant sales transactions of companies in recent years in the VoIP sector. These companies make it possible for the voice signal to travel over the Internet using the IP protocol, i.e. sending the voice signal in digital form instead of sending it in analogue form. The classification will be determined by the sales amounts handled in each transaction.
The security company Prosegur is very active in buying companies. Three of its last four acquisitions were confirmed in December 2018, in an interval of less than a week. Below are the operations that have been taking place in the Spanish company.
In October 2018, the Basque company Cyber Surgery closed a €4 million financing round. Several organisations have participated in this investment, which in our field of corporate finance we assimilate or categorise as a sale of companies, as they sell part of their capital. We analyse the operation in detail and also mention some of the most recent operations in the sector at a global level.
From the corporate finance perspective, we analyse some of the sales of internet services companies confirmed in 2018. We talk about a generalised sector, where a client can obtain mailing services, FTP, Telnet or telephony services, among others. In this post we talk about the Spanish operator Excom, which ended the year with a triple acquisition, and other sales operations worldwide.
We start this new year 2019 with a company valuation post. We talk about FinTech Apptio and its recent acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.
We talk about the purchase of Chatbot companies, a programme based on Artificial Intelligence that simulates a conversation with the user. The best known by all of us is Apple's Siri, but there are many more in the world. We are going to analyse some of the purchases that have been made in this sector in 2018.
Today we analyse the purchases of companies in the logistics software sector that have taken place in 2018. We talk about a software that is key in many organisations because it facilitates the management of stock storage or shipping tasks, among others.
We would mainly like to highlight the purchase operation carried out between two Spanish companies, Visual Trans and Empuries Logística.
In our new company sales analysis we are going to focus on cybersecurity. We talk about a booming sector motivated by the increase in attacks suffered on the network. The massive multiplication of data and hackers force certain companies to try to avoid losses or malicious theft. From our area of corporate finance we are going to talk about 5 companies that have been sold in 2018 in the sector and the sale operation.
We expose the most relevant technology companies buying in India in 2018. The Asian country has become an emerging economy that offers many and varied business opportunities. In this post we talk about Bygging India Limited, Mswipe Technologies, Embibe and Flipkart.
We will analyse the acquisition of companies in the recruitment sector in 2018. We are going to focus in part on companies that run their identification processes in technology jobs, such as technicians or programmers.