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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's $11B Confluent acquisition completes its hybrid cloud stack, with Kafka streaming joining Red Hat and HashiCorp for ...

IBM aims to buy Confluent for $11bn to boost its cloud and AI stack with real-time data rather than build massive AI data ...

While $11 billion is a lot of money to spend, IBM is betting that acquiring Confluent and its popular data streaming platform ...

The proposed deal will see IBM acquire Confluent for $31 per share, which is a 30% premium over Confluent’s stock price prior ...