Google announced this morning plans to acquire Motorola Mobility. The price: $12.5 billion – the company’s biggest-ever acquisition by far. CEO Larry Page made the announcement on the Official Google Blog: Motorola has a history of over 80 years of …

eBay announced that it has officially completed its acquisition of Zong, announced just over a month ago. Zong provides payments through mobile carrier billing, and is now part of PayPal. eBay says it adds complementary technology and talent to strengthen …

Bitly, once Twitter’s favorite URL shortening service before Twitter decided to go with its own service, announced that it has acquired Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed allows bloggers to “feed their blogs to Twitter,” Facebook and other services. Two weeks ago, Twitterfeed announced …

Twitter has acquired Bagcheck for an undisclosed sum. Bagcheck engineer and co-founder Sam Pullara is also along for the ride, as he is joining Twitter’s engineer team as part of the acquisition. Bagcheck is a service that lets users make …

Groupon announced today that it has acquired Obtiva, a Ruby on Rails software development firm from Groupon’s hometown of Chicago. “We’ve been working side-by-side with our Obtiva colleagues since way back in 2009, when Groupon had a handful of engineers,” …

Google has acquired deals aggregation service TheDealMap for an undisclosed sum. The company claims to have over 2 million users for its branded mobile, web, social and email products, a million Android/iPhone mobile installs, and 85 million monthly visitors to …

Google has acquired PittPatt, and no that’s not Globochem’s Pit-Pat. It’s Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, a research company working on facial recognition technology. A message on PittPatt’s website reads: We are happy to announce that Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition has been acquired …

Adobe has acquired EchoSign, a provider of electronic signatures. All EchoSign full-time employees, as well as its founders, will join Adobe. Adobe says EchoSign’s solution will be a key part of its document exchange services platform. It will be integrated …

Google has acquired Punchd, a mobile digital loyalty card startup. The company describes itself as “the replacement for your buy-10-get-1-free cards at your favorite shops.” Here’s a promo for the service: Punchd App Promo from Punchd on Vimeo. On the …

eBay announced today that it has completed its acquisition of GSI Commerce, which was announced back in March. The deal was approved by stockholders on the 17th. eBay acquired all outstanding shares of GSI at $29.25 pher share in cash, …

Google has acquired SageTV for an undisclosed sum. SageTV is a company that builds media center software. It is expected that the company’s efforts (which include DVR technology) will find their way into Google TV. An announcement on the SageTV …

Last week, a report came out that Google had acquired AdMeld for around $400 million. While the price has not been confirmed, Google did officially announce the acquisition today. Google’s VP of Display Advertising, Neal Mohan, wrote on the Official …

Facebook has acquired Sofa, a software company based in Amsterdam, which created Mac apps like Kaleidoscope and Versions. In an announcement on Sofa’s blog, the company says: We expected to keep working at Sofa forever. But after Facebook first made …

According to an unconfirmed report from Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, citing “multiple sources,” Google has acquired ad optimization platform AdMeld for around $400 million. AdMeld CEO Michael Barrett led global sales at Fox Interactive Media, Co-Founders Ben Barokas and Brian …

RIM has acquired mobile gaming company Scoreloop for an undisclosed amount. RIM says on the BlackBerry Blog: Today we are pleased to announce that Scoreloop has joined Research In Motion (RIM). We’re excited that the Scoreloop team is joining the …

eBay announced it has agreed to acquire open source e-commerce platform Magento, which the company has had a minority stake in since 2010. eBay will own the entire thing once the transaction closes (the terms of which have not been …

Google has acquired PostRank, a service that helps users find, read, and measure online social engagement with news and articles. The amount has not been disclosed. The company offers data services (APIs that enable real-time content and engagement for media …

Last week, Twitter officially announced its acquisition of TweetDeck, and if there is merit to the rumors emerging, the company also has some other fairly big news on the way. Alexia Tsotsis at TechCrunch is reporting, citing “multiple sources,” that …

It’s been reported all month that Twitter was acquiring TweetDeck. This week, CNN reported that the papers had been signed, but there was stilll no official word from Twitter or TweetDeck. Until now. In a post on the Twitter Blog, …

Google has acquired Sparkbuy, a laptop and TV comparison shopping site, for an undisclosed sum. Sparkbuy, which never even emerged from beta status, has discontinued operation as a site, but the three people who ran it will now be working …

Around the beginning of May, reports came out suggesting that Twitter had acquired TweetDeck, and an announcement was expected within days. That didn’t happen. Here it is several weeks later, and now we have a report from CNN indicating that …