Tag: Acquisitions

Hillshire Farm Buys Pinnacle Foods For $6.6 Billion
Hillshire Brands, the food company behind Jimmy Dean Sausages, Ball Park hot dogs, and Sara Lee frozen pies, today announced that it will be acquiring food company Pinnacle Foods....
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Google Acquires Stackdriver For Cloud Platform
Google announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Stackdriver, a provider of cloud monitoring services. "Stackdriver has built a leading service to help developers intelligent...
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Google Acquires Restaurant Info Service Appetas
Google has acquired Appetas, a service that lets restaurants showcase their menus across devices. Restaurant owners can keep their info up to date on their own. Or at least they co...
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Google Adds Adometry For New Analytics Tools
Google announced that it has acquired Adometry, which will become part of its Analytics offerings. Adometry is an advanced marketing attribution and cross-channel optimization solu...
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AT&T Said To Seek DirecTV Acquisition
First Comcast and Time Warner proposed a merger, which is still going through the regulatory rounds. Now,...
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Microsoft Now Officially Owns Nokia’s Devices & Services Business
Well, it's official. Microsoft announced on Friday (as...
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Facebook Is Buying Exercise-Tracking App Moves
Facebook is acquiring ProtoGeo Oy, makers of the Moves app. The story was...
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Etsy Announces Acquisition Of Grand St.
Etsy announced on Wednesday that it is acquiring creative technology marketplace Grand St. Its team, including co-founders Amanda Peyton, Joe Lallouz, and Aaron Henshaw, will join...
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WhatsApp Hits 500 Million Users, 700 Million Photos Shared Daily
Messaging app WhatsApp has just announced a huge milestone–they've topped half a billion "regular, active" users. And those users are sharing more than 700 million photos and 10...
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Microsoft To Close Nokia Devices And Services Acquisition, Signs Licensing Agreement With Motorola
In 2011, Microsoft and Nokia partnered to create a "third" smartphone h...
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These Drones Will Reportedly Join Google’s Robot Army
So remember how Facebook was going to buy those Titan Aeros...
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FTC to Facebook: Don’t Screw with User Privacy After WhatsApp Acquisition
Today, Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan and WhatsApp General Counsel Anne Hoge received...
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Twitter Acquires Cover, Keeps It Alive (For Now)
Cover, an Android lockscreen app, announced that it has been acquired by Twitter. It’s unclear exactly what Twitter intends to do with it, but the app will remain active at least f...
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Report: Klout Acquisition Official
Last month, we learned that Klout was to be acquired by...
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Facebook Acquires Oculus VR For $2 Billion
When you woke up this morning, did you think Facebook would be acquiring the leader in virtual reality technology? Me neither, but here we are....
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