Marketo, the marketing software giant that went public in 2013, is being taken private again: PE firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired the company for $1.79 billion in an all-cash deal. The news ends weeks of speculation in which people guessed that Marketo would be snapped up by strategics like Microsoft (who is a big partner of Marketo) or SAP.
In the end, it’s a PE firm, thereby… Read More...