Amazon acquires Italy-based software firm

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016.

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Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), said it has acquired NICE, a software developer for technical computing. The company said it has signed an agreement with NICE, which is also a cloud computing firm, and expects the deal to close in the first quarter of 2016. (amzn.to/1QZt7NP)
No financial terms were disclosed.
Italy-based NICE has customers in industries ranging from aerospace to industrial, energy and utilities.
  
Reporting by Shivam Srivastava in Bengaluru; Editing by Sunil Nair