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IBM CEO Krishna on M&A After Confluent: 'Watch This Space'

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$11 billion acquisition of Confluent completed, according to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna in a Bloomberg interview. The deal finalization is a material strategic move for IBM's data and cloud capabilities and is likely to be viewed positively by investors, with potential to move IBM shares and affect the enterprise software/streaming sector.

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$11 billion acquisition of Confluent completed, according to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna in a Bloomberg interview. The deal finalization is a material strategic move for IBM's data and cloud capabilities and is likely to be viewed positively by investors, with potential to move IBM shares and affect the enterprise software/streaming sector.

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