Accelerating Action at Altair’s Future.Industry 2025
Altair recently invited me to be on a panel at its Future.Industry 2025 event, focusing on how women in technology can align with this year’s theme for International Women’s Day. Go here to see the panel session’s recording and to check out the rest...
Apparently no new divestitures in Synopsys+Ansys
Synopsys just issued a press release about the UK’s tacit approval of its intention to acquire Ansys. It’s brief, and simply says We are pleased that the CMA has formally cleared the transaction in Phase 1 subject to previously announced divestitures. We...
UK regulator approves Synopsys+Ansys
UK regulator approves Synopsys+Ansys Super quick while we wait for more details: Reuters just reported that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority won’t seek further review of Synopsys’ proposed acquisition of Ansys, in effect approving the deal....
Hexagon to spin off ALI and SGI into NewCo in early 2026
Hexagon to spin off ALI and SGI into NewCo in early 2026 Earnings season is almost over, and there’s a lot to catch up on, but news just came into the inbox that Hexagon has decided that it will, indeed, spin off its ALI business. What is that, you ask, and what...
Catching up: AspenTech+Emerson, 3D printing, Geomagic
Catching up: AspenTech+Emerson, 3D printing, Geomagic I’ve been neck-deep in earnings news lately —need to find the time to post longer recaps of PLMish ones— and the general sentiment isn’t too upbeat. Nothing horrible, but a lot of spending sounds like...
Super Quick: Sandvik snaps up 3 more CAM resellers
Super Quick: Sandvik snaps up 3 more CAM resellers Sandvik just announced that it has acquired ShopWare, MCAM Northwest and the CAD/CAM solutions business line of OptiPro Systems. All three are US-based Mastercam resellers and bring to five the total of resellers...
Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech
Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech Surprising … well, no one … Emerson announced today that it will acquire all outstanding shares of AspenTech for $265.00 per share in an all-cash offer. Emerson already owns roughly 57% of shares, so this will be quite a large cash...
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my!
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my! What did I see this morning? We’re not even at the end of January, and it already feels like a very long year … something like that. You too? We’ll get through it together! While the wider world...
