Tag: Acquisitions

Amazon Acquires Book Recommendations Site and Social Network Goodreads
Amazon has just announced that they are acquiring Goodreads, "the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations." Good reads lau...
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Yahoo Acquires Summly To Integrate Into Its Own Mobile Offerings
Update: According to All Things D ,the price was $30 million in cash (90 percent in cash and 10 percent in stock)....
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Pinterest Buys Livestar, Shuts Down App
Pinterest just announced that it has agreed to acquire Livestar, an app that helps people find local recommendations from friends and others....
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Yahoo Brings Back Former Staff With Jybe Acquisition
Yahoo announced today that it has acquired Jybe, which includes five former Yahoo employees. Yahoo Cloud Platform Group SVP Jay Rossiter discusses the acquisition in...
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Demand Media: Etsy And Pinterest Will Feed Interest In Creativebug
As previously reported, Demand Media announced today that it has acq...
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Demand Media Expands Into Paid Content With Creativebug
Demand Media just announced that it has acquired CreativeBug, a provider of online video workshops for arts and crafts. The property should fit right into the company's content net...
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Facebook Acquires Social Blogging Site Storylane
Blogging site Storylane has just announced that they've been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is talent-based, as Storylane's Jonathan Gheller says t...
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Rackspace Acquires MongoDB DBaaS Provider ObjectRocket
Rackspace announced today that it has entered an agrement to acquire Object Rocket, a MongoDB DBaaS provider. A Rackspace spokesperson tells WebProNews, "Every web application...
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Gas Powered Games Bought by Wargaming.net
Earlier this week, developer Gas Powered Games cancelled its Wildman Kicks...
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Yahoo Acquires Alike, Team To Join Yahoo Mobile Group
Yahoo has acquired Alike, makers of an iPhone app, which helps users find nearby places of interest, for an undisclosed price. The Alike team will will join Yahoo's mobile group....
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Groupon Acquires Britely Team To Help Build Local Commerce OS
Groupon has acquired MashLogic, the company behind Britely. Britely announced the news on its blog (as...
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Salesforce Acquires Content Integration Solutions Company EntropySoft
Salesforce has acquired EntropySoft, a French content integration solutions company. VentureBeat...
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Google Acquires Channel Intelligence To Improve Shopping Experience
Update: We've now received confirmation from Google that it has signed a deal to acquire CI. A Google spokesperson tells WebProNews, “We want to help consumers sav...
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Twitter Reportedly Buying Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs [Updated With Confirmation From Twitter]
Update: Twitter has now officially announced the acquisition. The company says in a blog post:...
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IGN, AskMen Sold to j2 Global’s Ziff Davis
j2 Global, the parent company of publisher Ziff Davis, announced today that Ziff Davis has acquired IGN entertainment fro...
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