IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement ...

Redpanda is joining Akamai’s Qualified Compute Partner Program as an ISV partner with its real-time data streaming software running on the Akamai Cloud as a service for AI agents and AI applications.

Bob Kafka was an organizer with ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a group which advocates for policy ...

This year, about 45 percent of the revenues at Big Blue will come from software. But IBM wants to push this up to half of revenues and then onwards from there. IBM also wants to find the modern AI era ...

Interim coach Mike Kafka is 0-2 since taking over the Giants. Nic Antaya / Getty Images Mike Kafka’s opportunity for a signature moment as New York Giants interim coach arrived in last Sunday’s game ...

Imagine it’s 3 a.m. and your pager goes off. A downstream service is failing, and after an hour of debugging you trace the issue to a tiny, undocumented schema change made by an upstream team. The fix ...

IBM wants to buy Confluent for a double-digit billion sum. Big Blue aims to reliably link analytics applications and AI agents with data streams. IBM wants to buy Confluent for around eleven billion ...

While $11 billion is a lot of money to spend, IBM is betting that acquiring Confluent and its popular data streaming platform will generate a superior return compared to the capex-heavy strategies of ...

Abdul Carter was benched for the first quarter of the Giants’ loss to the Patriots on Monday night. / Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Giants confirmed his absence wasn’t injury-related, and at ...

An announcement from Confluent ( ($CFLT) ) is now available. On December 7, 2025, Confluent, Inc. announced a merger agreement with IBM, under ...

Confluent sells an enterprise version of the open-source Kafka data streaming platform, which it said is used by 80% of the Fortune 100. IBM said the addition of Confluent underlines a broader IBM ...

IBM acquires Confluent for $11B in a major cloud and data deal. Analyze the strategic implications, and market impact, ...