After weeks of tug of war, NetApp must concede defeat as EMC strikes a $2.1 billion deal to buy Data Domain. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He ...

NetApp Inc. said “uncle” yesterday after EMC Corp. outbid it for a second time in its quest to acquire Data Domain Inc. But some industry observers believe EMC, in its zeal to acquire the ...

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EMC Corp. may end up in a tussle to acquire California-based Data Domain Inc. On Monday the Hopkinton-based data storage company offered $1.8 billion in cash for Data Domain on the heels of an offer ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. EMC on June 9 made its first move since tendering an ...

EMC has swooped in Monday with an $1.8 billion, or $30 a share, offer for Data Domain. The rub: Rival NetApp already had a plan to buy the company for $25 a share, or $1.5 billion. EMC said its all ...

EMC on Monday announced it has acquired majority ownership of Data Domain and will complete the purchase at the end of July. The company also outlined where Data Domain, a provider of deduplication ...

EMC has officially acquired majority ownership of storage vendor Data Domain after a bidding war with NetApp. After an initial stock purchase offering period ended Friday, EMC acquired 78.2 percent of ...

EMC Corp. has increased its bid for California-based Data Domain Inc. by more than 11 percent to $33.50 per share. The Hopkinton data storage giant’s offer for the company now stands at $2.1 billion.

Unless the EMC-NetApp-Data Domain changes in the past five days, here’s what happened in NetApp’s efforts to acquire the deduplication vendor. The pot got sweeter last week as NetApp upped the ante ...

Data Domain shareholders should reject EMC’s unsolicited takeover bid or risk being left without a suitor, Data Domain’s board of directors said Monday. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and ...