Deals and vendors
Funding, acquisitions, earnings and layoffs at the companies that sell to IT.

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IonQ to buy microsegmentation vendor Elisity for up to $1.3 billion
The quantum computing company is adding a network security product with more than 100 customer deployments to its post-quantum encryption business.

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Schneider Electric agrees to buy PTC for $22.6 billion in cash, its largest deal
The $205-a-share offer values PTC at about $23.7 billion including debt. It adds PTC's design and lifecycle software to Schneider's Aveva.

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GPU cloud Lambda is raising $4 billion ahead of a 2027 IPO, WSJ reports
Its order backlog jumped from $15 billion in June to $50 billion in September, mostly because of one $35 billion deal with Anthropic.