Tag: Acquisitions

Yahoo Acquires Vizify For Data Visualization
Yahoo has acquired data visualization company Vizify, which turns social media data into infographic, video and card formats. Vizify announced the news on its blog: We...
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Google Never Tried to Buy WhatsApp, Says SVP
The rumor coming on the heels of the biggest acquisition in recent memory–Facebook's $19 billion buy of messaging service WhatsApp–was that Google also wanted to snatch up the wild...
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Square Acquires Appointment-Booking Software Maker BookFresh
Square announced on Wednesday that it has acquired BookFresh, makers of appointment booking software. "Sellers use Square for far more than accepting payments: They manage thei...
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Oracle Is Buying BlueKai For Big Data Marketing
Oracle announced on Monday that it has signed an agreement to acquire cloud-based big data platform BlueKai, which offers a solution for personalizing marketing campaigns. Acco...
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IBM To Acquire DBaaS Provider Cloudant
IBM announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire database-as-a-service provider Cloudant. Cloudant, which IBM will use to expand its big data/analytics,...
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Google Acquires Spider.io To Get Better At Fighting Ad Fraud
Google announced on Friday that it has acquired spider.io, an ad fraud-fighting technology company. Google will include this technology in its video and display ad products as a co...
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Yes, Tesla Talked to Apple, But Acquisition Is Unlikely
Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that people at Tesla did meet with people at Apple, but it's unlikely that any rumored merger will take place. Musk did say that "if" the talks had an...
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Google Reportedly Offered WhatsApp $10B Before Facebook Snatched It Up for $19B
The big news yesterday afternoon came from Facebook, who announced that they were acqu...
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Check Out What eBay Can Do Now That It Owns PhiSix
eBay announced that it has acquired computer graphics company PhiSix, which creates 3D models of clothing from photos, pattern files and other sources. These graphics, accordin...
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Google Has Acquired SlickLogin, Which Lets You Log In Using Sounds You Can’t Hear
Google has acquired SlickLogin for an undisclosed figure. The startup launched only five months ago at TechCrunch Disrupt, and quickly managed to catch the interest of the technolo...
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Yahoo Buys Another Company (Distill)
Apparently Yahoo has no intention of stopping its acquisition spree. Just days after news came out that the company has...
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Comcast To Purchase Time Warner Cable For $45 Billion
Comcast is the nation's largest cable and Internet provider whereas Time Warner Cable is the nation's second largest. The two are also some of the...
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Google Now Officially Owns Nest
Google officially closed its acquisition of Nest on Friday, just after gaining approval f...
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Yahoo Acquires Wander And ‘Days’ App
Yahoo is showing no signs of slowing down the acquisition train. In the fifth piece of company-being-acquired-by-Yahoo news of the year, Yahoo has acquired Wander, which operates t...
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Yahoo Acquires Another Pair Of Companies
The Yahoo acquisition train just keeps a rollin'. There's one more day of January left. Let's see if they can squeeze in one or two more. News has come out that the company has...
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