Citrix acquires work management platform for $2bn

Marian McHugh
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Purchase of Wrike expected to speed up vendor's cloud and SaaS ambitions

Citrix has snapped up work management platform Wrike for $2.2bn in cash. California-based Wrike specialises in streamlined collaboration and provides employees with tools to work securely and ef...

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