Acquisitions News

Nokia shareholders today reportedly voted to approve the company's sale of its phones unit to Microsoft. "At an extraordinary general meeting in Helsinki, the chairman of the m...

Groupon Announces Q3 Earnings, Ticket Monster Acquisition

Groupon just released its earnings report for the third quarter, and announced an agreement to acquire Ticket Monster from its rival LivingSocial for $260 million cash and stock....

Michael Dell’s Dell Acquisition Now Complete

Dell today announced that its acquisition by Dell founder Michael Dell and investment firm Silver Lake Partners has officially...

GoDaddy Buys Media Temple, Will Keep It As Separate Company

GoDaddy announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Media Temple, a web hosting and cloud services company based in Los Angeles. GoDaddy says th...

Yahoo Acquires Bread (The Company, Not The Food)

Yahoo has acquired URL-shortening service Bread. This is a talent acquisition, not a product acquisition. Bread CEO Alan Chan made the announcement on...

Twitter Will Reportedly Launch Mobile Ad Network With MoPub Acquisition

Last month, Twitter announced its intent to acquire mobile ad exchange MoPub...

Facebook Acquires Mobile Data Firm And Internet Ally Onavo

Facebook has acquired Onavo, a mobile data compression and analytics company out of Israel. Onavo announced the news in a...

Amazon Is Buying TenMarks

Amazon announced on Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire parent/teacher math resource company TenMarks. TenMar...

Google, Cisco Could Make Offers For BlackBerry

BlackBerry's last-ditch effort to stay relevant in the smartphone industry with its BlackBerry 10 devices has failed, and the company is now for sale. Investors led by FairFax Fin...

Apple Reportedly Buys Cue (Formerly Greplin)

Apple has reportedly purchased Cue, the company formerly known as Greplin, in a bid to compete with Google Now on personalized search. TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis says she's co...

Google Buys Motion Gesture Tech Firm Flutter

Google has acquired motion gesture technology company Flutter. Flutter CEO Navneet Dalal announced the news on the company's site. Flutter...

Yahoo Makes Another Sports-Related Acquisition With Hitpost

Yahoo has made yet another acquisition. This time it's Hitpost, the company behind a handful of sports betting and polling apps. The acquisition was first...

Bezos’ Acquisition Of The Washington Post Is Now Complete

The Washington Post Company has officially completed the sale of The Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The deal was first announced back in early August. Bezos would bu...

Google’s Waze Deal Won’t Face Antitrust Issues [REPORT]

Google looks to be in the clear concerning their recent acquisition...

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