The new Delicious was launched back in September, and while some of us liked the direction the site was taking, I think it’s safe to say that the redesign was not a big hit with the majority of the site’s …

Just because there’s been a lot of talk about other parties looking to acquire Yahoo, and the company doesn’t have a permanent CEO yet, doesn’t mean Yahoo can’t pursue acquisitions of its own. Today, the company announced that it has …

Adobe announced that it has acquired video ad company Auditude. Terms haven’t been officially disclosed, but reports have the transaction pegged at about $100 million. Adobe’s description for Auditude says: “Auditude helps maximize the value of video content through advanced …

Earlier this month, there were reports that Research in Motion, makers of BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, had acquired Irish Software firm NewBay for $100 million. RIM finally confirmed the acquisition (though terms weren’t officially disclosed) in a blog post this …

Oracle announced it will be acquiring RightNow Technologies, a company that provides cloud-based customer service. The deal is for about $1.5 billion. The transaction has already been unanimously approved by Oracle’s board, though still subject to regulatory approvals. It’s expected …

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype has now closed. The company paid $8.5 billion. Microsoft says the two companies will remain focused on connecting people across all devices, and accelerating both companies’ efforts to transform real-time communications for consumers and enterprise customers. …

Google has acquired the team behind SocialGrapple, a social analytics service. A message at SocialGrapple.com says: I am excited to announce that the SocialGrapple team is joining Google. SocialGrapple started a year ago, and launched only a couple of months …

What if Microsoft bought Yahoo? According to a report from Reuters, Microsoft is eyeing a bid on the company which is currently down a CEO. Would such an acquisition be good for Microsoft? Good for Yahoo? Tell us what you …

According to reports, Research in Motion, which makes BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, has acquired Irish software firm NewBay for $100 million. The Irish Times reports that NewBay staff were informed about the deal yesterday, and that “It is understood that …

LinkedIn has acquired contact management company Connected, which is designed to help people manage their contacts across services from a single place. In a message on the Connected Blog, Conected’s Sachin Rekhi and Ada Chen write: We’re excited about the …

Rhapsody announced today that it has agreed to acquire Napster from Best Buy. That includes the subscribers and “certain other assets” which remain unspecified. For the acquisition, Best Buy gets an also unspecified minority stake in Rhapsody. As a result …

The competition between Google+ and Facebook continues to heat up. Facebook has made moves recently that make its sharing and friends lists a little more Google+ Circles-like. They also launched “smart lists” where Facebook compiles lists of your friends on …

Twitter has acquired Julpan, a social search company founded by Ori Allon, who is credited with the creation of the Orion Search Engine, and an algorithm Google bought the rights to for use in search refinements. He left Google last …

While others in the space seem to have scaled back a bit in the daily deals department (see Facebook and Yelp), Google continues to amp up its efforts. Since news that Facebook was ending its Deals offering (though keeping check-in …

As the hearing date for the AT&T/T-Mobile merger draws closer, it seems the controversies surrounding it are only getting more complex. From the initial announcement back in March, consumer groups have spoken out against the deal. But the opposition has gotten much more intense recently with both the U.S. Department of Justice and Sprint filing lawsuits to block AT&T’s $39 billion planned takeover of T-Mobile.

By now you’ve heard the news that Google has purchased Zagat Reviews. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Zagat, it has a worldwide set of reviews that travelers have relied on for decades to choose the right restaurant. …

Walmart has acquired OneRiot. OneRiot’s tech team will move to Silicon Valley and become part of the @WalmartLabs team this month.” If you’re unfamiliar with OneRiot, it was an early entrant into the realtime search space, but inevitably folded that …

Can Google pull off its bid to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion? This is the question that many people in the tech and mobile spaces are asking. There’s no doubt that it’s a strategic move on Google’s part, but it does raise some issues.

Google just announced that it has acquired Zagat. This should be pretty huge for Place Pages. Zagat is of course a big name consumer review service. On the Official Google Blog, Marissa Mayer writes: Moving forward, Zagat will be a …

Sprint announced today that it has filed a suit to block the proposed AT&T, T-Mobile USA merger. The suit was filed in federal court in the District of Columbia. “Sprint opposes AT&T’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile,” said Susan Z. Haller, …

Dallas Mavs owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban was critical of Google’s decision to buy YouTube when it happened back in 2006. Apparently, those sentiments haven’t changed. Appearing on the CBS What’s Trending show, he received a question submitted from Twitter …