Lexmark acquires Perceptive Software

Lexmark has agreed to buy out enterprise content management vendor Perceptive Software for $280 million, reports CMS Wire.

This is part of Lexmark's plans to move into the enterprise content management space to market its multifunction printers.

Lexmark says the deal will provide it with new revenue streams in software maintenance and professional services that are not paper usage dependent.

McAfee has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Trust Digital as part of its strategy to expand into the mobile security arena, states Network World.

Dave DeWalt, president and CEO of McAfee, says: "The acquisition of Trust Digital's enterprise mobility management solutions will extend the current McAfee security portfolio beyond the traditional endpoint, addressing the rapidly expanding mobile security market.”

Once the deal is completed, Trust Digital's enterprise mobility and content management solutions will be combined with McAfee anti-virus, anti-spyware, host intrusion prevention, policy auditing and firewall technologies.

Optus has rolled out Australia's first mobile operator application developer portal called Optus Partner Connect, says ITWire.

Optus claims Partner Connect enables developers to use the content management tool to upload applications to the Optus Application Store, which supports Blackberry, Android, Windows, Symbian and high-end Java.”

The company deployed its business mobile app store earlier this year featuring hundreds of business applications.