Ever since Covid outbreak, most of us have been involved in managing our homes and offices with a constant track on the number of cases in our regions. Work from home has resulted in a boom time for online meeting platforms with everyone from MS-Teams, Google Meet and Zoom reporting multi-fold increase in revenues. Zoom's share price have skyrocketed from ~$100 to more than $400 in last 6 months, however, all these news items have been widely reported and almost universally known. What has missed the media radar are the acquisitions made by large tech-firms. Microsoft and Apply have made 6-7 acquisitions each since the pandemic began. Experts predict that Covid will accelerate digital transformation and adoption of tech products in daily life and tech companies are reportedly taking advantage of compressed valuations due to the pandemic to buy companies cheaply. In fact, even IT services firms have been active in acquiring companies eg, India's Infosys ac...
Synopsis strives to provides an analysis of the strategy and business side of technology, and it's impact of technology on society. While most of the articles will be on the Business Side of things, at times I will also intermix it with Political Developments as they impact us more than any Business Decision could.