Akamai purchases Janrain in all cash deal

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4 points·brokenwren··4 comments

I wonder if this could be another purchase like Stormpath. Could Akamai eventually kill the Janrain APIs because they aren't profitable enough?

Anyone using Janrain and concerned about this acquisition?

Wow, I guess I should not be surprised. The acquisitions continue - in the last year or two we've seen the identity space really start to consolidate.

- Okta bought Stormpath .. and killed it. - SAP bought Gigya - Thoma Bravo acquires majority interest in Centrify - Google Cloud acquires Bitium - Akamai bought Janrain - LoginRadius - Series A from M12 (Microsoft Venture Capital) - OneLogin - parternship with Microsoft

I think there are others as well, I'm surprised IBM didn't buy Janrain. Waiting to see who picks up ForgeRock, FusionAuth and Auth0. Most of these companies have taken so much in VC that they will be pricey to buy.

My guess is that Google, Amazon, and maybe IBM want to have a market position in this space, so it will be interesting to see what they do. Amazon already has a decent position with Cognito, Google offers some of this if you're on Firebase. IBM seems to be absent - but they have a lot of catching up to do in general, so perhaps this isn't priority.

Feels like the cloud providers are staying safely in the "do the minimal feature set to make it work" category with Firebase and Cognito. I don't even consider those really anything more than authentication APIs.

Another round! OneLogin raises another $100 million in Series D. https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/10/onelogin-raises-100-milli...

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