Tag: Acquisitions

Twitter Has Acquired Ubalo, According to Ubalo
While Twitter has not confirmed the news itself, the company has apparently acquired Ubalo, a "scalable computation" startup. The news appears to have been...
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Yahoo Acquires Milewise, GoPollGo For Mobile Team
Yahoo announced that the teams from both Milewise and GoPollGo have joined Yahoo. In an email, a spokesperson said, "Today Milewise and GoPollGo joined the Yahoo! mobile team....
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Facebook Reportedly Getting Ready To Buy Waze
While we've seen nothing official, and Facebook has specifically said that it will not comment on speculation, reports have come out that the company is buying mapping/traffic app...
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McAfee Set To Acquire Firewall Provider Stonesoft
Intel's antivirus software company, McAfee, is acquiring Stonesoft. The company announced that it has executed a definitive agreement to initiate a conditional tender offer to do s...
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Spotify Buys Music Discovery App Tunigo
Unlike Twitter, Spotify isn't looking to build an entire standalone music service - they already have that. But they are interested in discovery, like Twitter, and to that end the...
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Yahoo Makes Yet Another Acquisition With Astrid Grab
Yahoo continues its hiring spree with to-do list application Astrid. Marissa Mayer announced the news on Twitter: div.twitterditto329809631436210176 { b...
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Yahoo Won’t Be Acquiring Dailymotion [Report]
Back in March, the Wall Street Journal reported that Ya...
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T-Mobile MetroPCS Merger Has Been Completed
Last week, shareholders approved the MetroPCS T-Mobile merger, and today, T-Mo...
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Google Buys Wavii To Improve Natural Language
Recent reports indicated that Google bought Wavii, a mobile startup, which has received some comparisons to Summly, which...
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MetroPCS T-Mobile Merger Approved By Shareholders
Back in October, Deutsche Telekom and MetroPCS Communications announced that they...
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Google Buys Wavii, According To Report
Google has bought mobile news startup Wavii for over $30 million, according to a report from Te...
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Evan Williams’ Medium Buys Kickstarter Project ‘Matter’
Medium, the current company of Blogger and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, has acquired Kickstarter-backed journalism startup Matter. For...
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$25 Billion Offer From Dish A 13% Premium Over SoftBank’s Sprint Offer
As previously reported, Dish Network announced a proposal on Monday to m...
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Google Acquires Team From Funf Creators Behavio
Update: Google says it's just the team joining Google, not an acquisition. Google has apparently acquired Behavio, which received a fair amount of att...
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PayPal Acquires Iron Pearl To Help It Grow
PayPal announced on Thursday that it has acquired Iron Pearl, a customer acquisition startup. Iron Pearl was founded by Stan Chudnovsky and James Currier, who will serve as Vic...
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