The cloud computing giant has snapped up Nicira, a startup developing smarter computer networking.

Cloud computing pioneer VMware has paid $1.26 billion for Nicira, a startup that we featured in our March list of the 50 most innovative companies in the world (see our feature article "A New Net")

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