Tag: Acquisitions

TripAdvisor Acquires Flight Info App GateGuru
TripAdvisor announced today that it has acquired mobile flight info resource GateGuru for an undisclosed price. GateGuru, which has apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, inc...
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Yahoo Said To Be Close To Buying Qwiki
Yahoo is said to be in the advanced stages of discussion to acquire Qwiki for $50 million. Kara Swisher at All Things D...
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Yahoo Acquires Conference Call Company Rondee
Yahoo has acquired conference call company Rondee, marking its second acquisition in a day's time. As previously reported, Yahoo also...
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Yahoo Acquires GhostBird Software To Integrate With Flickr
Yahoo just keeps on acquiring companies.This time it's GhostBird Software, which the company will use to enhance the recently enhanced Flickr even further. GhostBird makes the phot...
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Google Buys Waze, Who Promises That ‘Nothing Practical Will Change’
Yesterday, reports emerged that Google was on the verge of buying Israel-based navigatio...
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Google Reportedly Wins Waze Acquisition
Numerous reports have come out indicating that Google is getting ready to buy Israel-based navigation company Waze. After hearing about Facebook getting ready to buy the compan...
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Yahoo Said To Be Possibly Acquiring Xobni
Yahoo could be getting ready to buy address book app company Xobni, according to a report. Xobni makes the Smartr Contacts app....
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Salesforce To Buy ExactTarget For $2.5 Billion
Salesforce announced on Tuesday that it has entered an agreement in which it will acquire ExactTarget for about $2.5 billion. Salesforce will commence a tender offer for all outsta...
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Cisco To Acquire IT Energy Management Firm JouleX
Cisco announced on Wednesday its intent to acquire IT engergy management company JouleX. Cisco says the Atlanta-based company complements its existing portfolio by using capabiliti...
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Adobe Acquires Ideacodes Team For Creative Cloud
Adobe announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the team behind Ideaclouds, for use in the Creative Cloud department. Ideacodes is a creative consultancy, which Adobe says will hel...
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The Yahoo Acquisition Train Keeps Rolling With PlayerScale
While we don't expect it to attract as much attention as the Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo announced that it has acquired gaming platform PlayerScale. That's not to say it isn't a big...
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Google Acquires Wind Energy Company Makani Power
Back in 2007, Google announced that it would be putting hundreds of millions of dollars into a "strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will...
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Can Yahoo Keep Its Promise Of Not ‘Screwing Up’ Tumblr?
On Monday, Yahoo announced that it has signed an agreement to...
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Tumblr Porn Is Here to Stay, Yahoo Won’t Restrict Content
According to one recent analysis, over 11% of Tumblr's top 200,000 domains are full of "adult" content. Yes,...
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Tumblr Is Full of Porn, Just as We Suspected
Before Yahoo announced their plans to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion...
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