Polycom makes video conferencing buy

Global communications business Polycom has acquired ViVu, a privately held video collaboration software company.
Round-up of today's M&A deals


Global communications business Polycom has acquired ViVu, a privately held video collaboration software company.
Round-up of today’s M&A deals

Global communications business Polycom has acquired ViVu, a privately held video collaboration software company.

US-based ViVu provides video collaboration software that can be embedded into web applications to enable instant web-based HD video collaboration.

According to a statement ViVu gives Polycom a fast-track to embed HD video into web-based applications through an OEM model.

Sudhakar Ramakrishna, chief development officer at Polycom, comments: ‘ViVu is a compelling acquisition for Polycom as their technology provides a scalable architecture to quickly deploy rich video collaboration for a range of web-based applications for social, business, and industry-specific applications.’

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Todd Cardy

Todd Cardy

Todd was Editor of GrowthBusiness.co.uk between 2010 and 2011 as well as being responsible for publishing our digital and printed magazines focusing on private equity and venture capital.

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