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Google To Buy Apigee For $625 Million To Expand Enterprise (bloomberg.com)

Posted by msmash on from the big-shark,-small-shark dept.

An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg report:Google is buying software development toolmaker Apigee for $625 million, the latest move by the search giant to bulk up its cloud-based offerings for businesses. Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to pay $17.40 a share in cash, San Jose, California-based Apigee said in a statement Thursday. That's a 6.5 percent premium to Apigee's closing price Wednesday. The companies expect the deal to be completed by the end of the year. Apigee sells a platform that aids companies in managing their APIs, which are programming tools that help developers build software that talks to each other and shares information without revealing the underlying code. APIs have become an integral part of cloud software development, allowing one application to pull data and use services from multiple other programs. "The addition of Apigee's API solutions to Google cloud will accelerate our customers' move to supporting their businesses with high quality digital interactions" Diane Greene, senior vice president of Google's cloud business, said in a blog post, referring to application program interface products.

30 comments

  1. APIs by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

    These APIs things sound really useful. Where can I go to learn more about them, and the Cloud?

    1. Re:APIs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's no pleasing you people. If an acronym in the summary isn't defined, there's a whole thread of people who are completely fucking mystified by it and apparently also haven't heard of Google. In this summary, the acronym is defined and the responses so far are a bunch of feebs complaining and sarcastically whinging about having a definition.

    2. Re:APIs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow, somebody's got about as much of a sense of humor as Ann Coulter or Hillary Clinton.

    3. Re:APIs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's a feeb?

    4. Re:APIs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As soon as you learn about web 2.0 motherfucker!

    5. Re:APIs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Try making a joke that's actually funny, and not just whatever mildly glib verbal diarrhea dribbles out of your brain. I have a sense of humor, but it's not activated by stupid.

    6. Re:APIs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are. Seriously. In my browser, I can double-click on the word, then right-click and pick 'Search Google for "feeb"' and the definition comes up. Give it a try, if it's not too much of a mental exertion.

  2. ....a piggee? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    lmfao

  3. Great editing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What site is this again?
    The Slashbot just passed through a summary that defines APIs?

  4. Duke Nukem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hopefully Google can finally fix the bugs in Duke Nukem.

    1. Re:Duke Nukem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Alright there, buddy, you can just shut your mouth and never speak ill of The Duke again and everything will be just fine.

  5. I read that as Apple at first and did a double tak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    625 million would be quite a deal

  6. Woo hoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe Google will port the Commander Keen games to a web browser! Can't wait!

    1. Re:Woo hoo by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 1

      I wish I had mod points but I don't.

      Please accept this humble smiley face instead: :)

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  7. Might be handy when they change APIs for Android by denis-The-menace · · Score: 1

    Might be handy when they change APIs for Android so that Oracle can suck it.

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  8. Nooooo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Commander Keen does not approve.

  9. Mozilla tried that with Doom and got DMCA'd by tepples · · Score: 1

    The last time someone tried porting an Idthesda game to the browser, the result was a DMCA takedown.

  10. Commander Keen? by ilsaloving · · Score: 5, Funny

    What could Google possibly need with Comandeer Keen? Are they working on next generation google doodles?

    1. Re:Commander Keen? by Lieutenant_Dan · · Score: 1

      No, I believe it will be enhanced Vorticons notifications via SMS. Probably using graphics from Turrican.

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    2. Re:Commander Keen? by Mister_Stoopid · · Score: 1

      This isn't about Commander Keen and you know it.

      Google is simply betting on Duke, as smart people always do.

  11. Google buys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, this may be a signal that some portion of tech will change in relation to Google and the other company,
    but it is not tech news.... The speculation of expanding cloud services is just that - speculation.

    Maybe the WSJ business section should carry it, not /.

    editors and moderators - pay attention to the viewers opinions!

  12. Am I dumb for never having heard of Apigee? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I work in enterprise development at a major bank no less. I deal with various APIs all day. Never even heard of Apigee....

    1. Re:Am I dumb for never having heard of Apigee? by gustygolf · · Score: 1

      They wrote and/or published a lot of platformer games in the early 1990s.

      I was quite fond of Crystal Caves myself.

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    2. Re:Am I dumb for never having heard of Apigee? by Cederic · · Score: 1

      Don't feel too bad about it. Apigee offer a class of software typically described as an API Gateway or API Management. If you're sharing soap or restful APIs over the internet then it's a great way to help people discover them and to manage, control, throttle, track, report and also just build APIs.

      Competitors include Mashery (now owned by Tibco), Akana (I like the name), IBM (holy shit it's shit), Oracle (who gives a fuck what it's like, no cunt can afford the licences) and about 60 others that have no real share of the market.

      Mulesoft is the other interesting option, as they conflate API management with messaging so you get a hybrid API manager ESB out of the box.

      Disclosure: My employer has a commercial relationship with one or more of the above. Well, 'more'. Most. Maybe all. Just not in the API space.

    3. Re:Am I dumb for never having heard of Apigee? by mark-t · · Score: 1

      Wasn't that ApOgee software?

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  13. What a name by fubarrr · · Score: 1

    >Apigee What a name. The guy who came up with it must've been seriously alternatively gifted

  14. This little Apigee went to market... by Black.Shuck · · Score: 2

    ...this little Apigee stayed at home.
    This little Apigee had roast-beef, and this little Apigee had none.
    And THIS little Apigee got bought by Google and went wee! wee! wee! wee! all the way to the bank.

  15. wee wee wee all the way home by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    One stayed at home. One had roast beef, and another had none. But this one's on the market.

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