Tag: Acquisitions

Yahoo Buys India’s Bookpad, Docspad
Yahoo has acquired Bangalore-based Bookpad, makers of Docspad, which enables application developers to add document creation and collaboration...
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Twitpic Isn’t Shutting Down Anymore, Says It’s Been Acquired
According to Twitpic, the company isn't shutting down anymore. In fact, it's been acquired and will live on. That's all according to a tweet – one that's admittedly sparse in te...
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Cisco Announces Plans To Acquire Memoir Systems
Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately held Memoir Systems, which develops semiconductor memory intellectual property and tools for ASIC vendors to build programmable netw...
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Cisco Announces Metacloud Acquisition Plans
Cisco just announced that it intends to acquire private cloud company Metacloud to accelerate its own "intercloud" strategy. Metacloud...
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Conan Checks In With Minecraft Inventor About Microsoft Acquisition
The big news on Monday was that Microsoft is buying Mojang, the company...
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Microsoft Announces It’s Buying Minecraft For $2.5 Billion
Rumors circulated throughout the media last week that Microsoft was preparing to acquire Mojang, the makers of the massively popular game Minecraft. On Monday, Microsoft officially...
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Google Acquires Polar For Google+
Polar, which offered an online polling solution, is being acquired by Google. Polar announced the news on its website, and it was first...
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Google Acquires Lift Labs To Help Those With Parkinson’s
Google announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Lift Labs, with the team joining the tech giant's "moonshot" branch Google[x]. Lift Labs makes a spoon that uses a stabilizat...
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Apple Reportedly Set to Acquire Path
Here's some Apple news that doesn't involve the iPhone 6 or the...
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Hootsuite Acquires Brightkit To Launch ‘Campaigns’ Offering
Hootsuite announced that it has acquired social campaigns platform Brightkit, which it is using to launch its own new offering called Hootsuite Campaigns. The acquisition actua...
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Automattic Announces BruteProtect Acquisition
Automattic, the company that runs WordPress, announced that it has acuiqred BruteProtect, which makes a plugin and service for protecting sites from malicious logins, and saves ser...
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Yahoo’ s Acquisition Of Flurry Is Now Complete
Last month, Yahoo announced that it reached a definitive agreement to acquire mobile ana...
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Google Acquires Visual Effects Solution Zync Render
Google announced that it has acquired Zync, which makes Zync Render, a visual effects cloud rendering technology that was used on movies li...
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Netflix to FCC: Say No to Comcast / Time Warner Cable Merger
Netflix, clearly unhappy with the proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger from the outset, has finally m...
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Amazon Is Officially Acquiring Twitch [Updated]
Update 3: It looks like Google backed out of the deal because of antitrust concerns. Forbes...
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