Tag: Acquisitions

Demand Media Appoints Sean Moriarty As New CEO, Acquires Saatchi Online
Demand Media just announced that it has appointed former CEO of Ticketmaster and Saatchi Art, Sean Moriarty, as its new CEO. The company has also acquired Saatchi Online, Inc. whic...
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Facebook Announces Acquisition Of PrivateCore
Facebook is buying PrivateCore, a secure server technology company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Joe Sullivan, Facebook's Chief Security Officer announced the news in...
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Google Acquires Directr For YouTube Ads
Google announced that it has acquired Directr, which will join its YouTube ads team. The company revealed the acquisition on its YouTube Creators Google+ account, after Directr ann...
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Messaging App Emu: We’re Joining Google
Messaging apps continue to attract the interest of Internet giants. Google has apparently acquired Emu, which which created a mobile messaging app with virtual assistant features....
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ComScore Buys MdotLabs To Battle Non-Human Traffic
ComScore has acquired MdotLabs in a move aimed at battling fraud in online advertising, or as the company puts it, to "augment its non-human traffic detection methods." MdotLab...
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Square Is Apparently About To Buy Caviar For About $90 Million [Updated]
Update: Square just made the announcement: We are excited to share the news that we’ve acquired Caviar. The Caviar team has built a seamless delivery ex...
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Apple Excitedly Welcomes Beats ‘To The Family’
Apple's acquisition of Beats is officially official. The company even put out an ex...
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Twitter Acquires Mitro Labs, As EFF Helps Turn Mitro Into Open Source Project
Twitter is apparently on something of an acquisition spree. This week, we already learned that...
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Pinterest Acquires Icebergs, Which Is Shutting Down
Pinterest has acquired Icebergs, a service that let users organize and share content for creative projects. The product will be shutting down as its founders join Pinterest, reloca...
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Twitter Acquires Machine Learning Company Madbits
Twitter has made another acquisition, picking up Madbits, which specializes in deep learning/machine learning, and has been working on technologies that can help extract informati...
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BlackBerry Acquires ‘Anti-Eavesdropping’ Company Secusmart
BlackBerry announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Secusmart, a voice and data encryption company, which makes "anti-eavesdropping" solutions for government organizat...
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Apple Gets EU Approval For Beats Acquisition, Is Reportedly About To Buy Swell
Apple's acquisition of Beats has gained approval from the European Commission. The Commission concluded that the combination of these businesses does not raise any competition conc...
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Zillow Buys Trulia in $3.5 Billion Stock Deal
Zillow, the massive online real estate site, has agreed to acquire Trulia, the less-massive but still very large real estate site, for $3.5 billion. The deal is a stock-for-stock t...
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Google Reportedly Buys Twitch For $1 Billion
Update: VentureBeat is reporting that Google has reached a deal to buy Twitch for $1 billion, and that the company is joining YouTube. Still, neither company i...
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LinkedIn Is Acquiring B2B Marketing Platform Bizo
LinkedIn announced that it is acquiring B2B brand marketing platform Bizo. The price is about $175 million (subject to adjustment) in a combination of about 10% stock and 90% cash....
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