Tagged: Acquisitions
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It’s official: Yahoo! to acquire Tumblr for US$1.1bn News
20.05.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! has ended days of speculation and announced its intent to acquire online blogging platform Tumblr for US$1.1bn. -
Twitter buys data analysis start-up Lucky Sort News
14.05.2013 Twitter has snapped up Lucky Sort, a data analysis company that may help the microblogging site monetise tweets. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.Categories: Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Deals Done, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
The technology business week: Shareholders sue HP over autonomy acquisition, Facebook to buy Waze? News
13.05.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Salesforce.com snaps up social bookmarking start-up Clipboard News
10.05.2013 Cloud software giant Salesforce.com has acquired social bookmarking service Clipboard in a deal valued between US$10m and US$20m. -
Israeli news claims Facebook and Waze are in final talks for US$1bn takeover News
09.05.2013 Just over a year after it was announced that Facebook would shell out US$1bn for photo-sharing app Instagram, the social network is apparently gearing up for a second... -
HP shareholders sue the company over Autonomy acquisition News
08.05.2013 Hewlett-Packard (HP) shareholders are taking the PC giant to court, accusing the company in a lawsuit of failing to properly examine the financial practices of Autonomy prior to... -
McAfee to acquire firewall protection player Stonesoft News
08.05.2013 Software security firm McAfee is jostling for leadership position in network security with its bid to acquire Stonesoft Oyj, a provider of next-generation network firewall... -
The technology business week: GameAccount Network teams up with MPTN, Google buys Wavii News
29.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
IBM buys UrbanCode to help businesses quickly deliver software News
23.04.2013 Technology giant IBM is expanding its DevOps strategy, designed to enhance the software development and delivery process for businesses, with the acquisition of UrbanCode Inc... -
The technology business week: PC sales fall off a cliff, Enteprise Ireland trade mission to Turkey success News
15.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Cisco to acquire mobile-networking company Ubiquisys for about US$310m News
03.04.2013 Networking equipment maker Cisco is to acquire Ubiquisys, a provider of intelligent 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) small-cell technologies, for about US$310m. -
Accenture acquires ChangeTrack Research News
03.04.2013 Technology consulting firm Accenture has snapped up ChangeTrack Research, a provider of analytics-based tools and services for change management, for an undisclosed sum. -
Masterminding European tech mergers and acquisitions News
02.04.2013 Because of the size of Silicon Valley and the volume of money raised and numbers of companies being bought and sold every week, Europe doesn’t often seem to be as exciting a... -
Meet Nick D’Aloisio, the 17-year-old entrepreneur Yahoo! just made a millionaire News
26.03.2013 British-Australian Nick D’Aloisio, born in 1995 and student at King’s College School in London, has just seen the company he founded snapped up by Yahoo! for a rumoured US$30m.... -
Yahoo! to acquire news summarising app Summly News
25.03.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! is to acquire mobile product company Summly for an undisclosed sum. -
Apple acquires indoor-GPS service company WifiSLAM News
25.03.2013 Consumer tech giant Apple has acquired WifiSLAM, an indoor-GPS company, for a reported US$20m. -
Yahoo! acquires Jybe, welcomes back five former employees News
20.03.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! has acquired personalised recommendation firm Jybe, and with it five former Yahoo! employees. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. -
IBM wraps up acquisition of Star Analytics’ software portfolio News
20.03.2013 Technology giant IBM has completed its acquisition of Star Analytics’ software portfolio to enhance its business analytics initiatives. Financial terms of the deal have not been...Categories: Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise, Deals Done, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
PayPal acquires mobile app developer Duff Research News
13.03.2013 E-payments giant PayPal has acquired mobile app development firm Duff Research to work on its mobile and digital wallet. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. -
Eamon Leonard serves as standard-bearer for Ireland's software community News
12.03.2013 Talk to anybody in the software industry in Ireland or anywhere else in the technology industry globally and they will tell you that good software developers are as rare as...