Zendesk inks $10.2bn deal
Summary
• Qualcomm has won its fight against a $1.05 billion fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators four years ago for paying Apple to use only its chips and blocking out rivals such as Intel. • French defence company Thales has created a new firm, dubbed S3NS, in partnership with Google, to offer state-vetted cloud computing services for the storage of some of the countrys most sensitive data. • Thoma Bravo has entered into a transaction agreement to acquire Norway-based Mercell Holding ASA, which has built an outstanding SaaS network of buyers and suppliers in the Nordic region for public tendering ($330 million). • The $100 million investment led by JP Morgan Growth Equity Partners in Codat, whose API enables software providers and financial institutions to build integrated products for small and medium businesses. • According to IDC, the MEA personal computing device market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations and tablets, is expected to decline 6% year-on-year in shipment terms for Q222, with an estimated 5.6 million units shipped.