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Reports haven't really been hinting at Barnes and Noble wanting to get bought off, but it looks like a certain company does want to acquire the book seller, or at least 70% of it.Barnes and Noble is known to be the biggest book seller in the United States, and it looks like this status has drawn the attention o... |
21 May 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Software giant CA Technologies, originally known as Computer Associates, has sold its antivirus unit to venture capital firm Updata Partners which will operate it as a standalone company.The new company will be provisionally called Total Defense, Inc, after CA's primary antivirus product, and will be established... |
17 May 2011
13:46 GMT |
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Since the Tegra 2 has been proving to be such a promising product, NVIDIA has decided to acquire the means necessary to integrate more features into it, hence its decision to make an acquisition of its own.With all the company acquisition going on, especially on the storage industry, it isn't such a shock to le... |
9 May 2011
10:26 GMT |
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Twitter is said to have acquired TweetDeck, though the deal still hasn't been confirmed. The company paid up to $50 million for the app maker, in cash and stock, and the deal is expected to be completed and announced in the next week or so.Rumors of the TweetDeck acquisition surfaced a couple of weeks ago, somew... |
3 May 2011
04:30 GMT |
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PayPal is eBay's shining star, but, even as it posts record revenue, the payments company is facing tough competition, especially on the mobile front. It's own efforts in the emerging market haven't been spectacular so far, but PayPal is looking to change that, partially through its latest acquisition ... |
29 April 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has acquired IntoNow, a 'TV check-in' startup which enables users to discover what show they're currently watching but also 'check-in,' to show it off to their friends. The price hasn't been disclosed, but is rumored to be between $20 million to $30 million, w... |
26 April 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Philips may be one of the oldest TV makers in history, but it looks like history alone is not enough to keep it in the race now that its HDTV division is losing more than it is making.It is a common thing on the IT industry for a company to shut down or sell business ventures when they happen to no longer fit with t... |
18 April 2011
09:01 GMT |
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As far as rumors on the IT market go, some are more wild than others, but a recent one involving Samsung may actually have something to it, considering how things have been going on the storage industry.Samsung is a company that deals in a wide variety of products and technologies, mobile, CE (consumer electronics) ... |
18 April 2011
02:40 GMT |
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A few months shy of a year since being announced, the Google - ITA acquisition has finally been approved by the US Department of Justice. For a while, it looked like this would be the big Google acquisition that will be challenged but it did not happen. Instead, Google agreed to some quite stringent conditions that r... |
11 April 2011
05:40 GMT |
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It isn't very often that multi-billion dollar transactions are carried out on the IT industry, or any industry for that matter, but announcements definitely get made when they do, as it happened with Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor.Although small transactions and licensing agreements happen all the... |
5 April 2011
05:33 GMT |
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EMC Corporation, a large manufacturer of storage and networking equipment, has acquired NetWitness, a company selling network security analysis appliances, in order to expand the portfolio of its RSA Security subsidiary.RSA Security is a reputed information security vendor whose encryption products are used by thousa... |
5 April 2011
02:29 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility, Inc. has just announced that it agreed to purchase Dreampark, a leading IPTV software provider based in Norrköping, Sweden. The handset vendor notes that the deal is expected to be finalized sometime during the second quarter of the ongoing year, but did not disclose specif... |
24 March 2011
04:12 GMT |
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It seems that the latest episode in Intel's struggle to gain a foothold on the mobile market has taken the form of a new acquisition, that of Silicon Hive, a private company based in the Netherlands.
For quite some time, Intel has been seeking better means of entering the mobile electronics market, which is ... |
18 March 2011
03:49 GMT |
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It seems that Intel is definitely looking to expand on the mobile front as it chose to make a step forward on the software side of things by acquiring a certain private company based in Cairo, Egypt.On any industry, the easiest way to expand in a certain area, or to gain the resources needed for a certain step, prov... |
14 March 2011
08:59 GMT |
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In an interesting but perhaps not entirely surprising move, Google has penalized Beat that Quote in the search results less than 24 hours after acquiring the company. The price comparison site was found to be in violation of Google guidelines, using shady practices to prop up its pages in the search results.After the... |
9 March 2011
07:57 GMT |
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In a rather surprising move, Google has acquired Zynamics, a German company which develops malware analysis and reverse engineering products.The announcement was made on the Zynamics blog by the company's founder and CEO Thomas Dullien, a renowned security researcher who is better known in the security industry ... |
2 March 2011
09:58 GMT |
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It appears that one of the more troublesome acquisition of the past few years has finally been completed, that being Intel's buying of the very well known security software developer McAfee.When a company decided to try and acquire a stake or complete ownership of another, the procedures are usually fairly stan... |
1 March 2011
04:23 GMT |
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It appears that not all plans of acquisition these days are getting carried all the way to completion, as a certain decision on Elpida's part regarding an aspect of the DRAM industry seems poised to end in failure.Some consumers may be aware of the borderline dismal situation on the DRAM market, at least as far... |
28 February 2011
10:26 GMT |
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The proposed ITA acquisition has dragged on for ages now, as the DOJ investigates whether Google's plans are anti-competitive. And, with authorities seemingly bent on getting something on the search giant, after a few narrow escapes, it looks like this is the deal that will get Google into trouble. That is, unle... |
25 February 2011
14:15 GMT |
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There are many rumors always running rampant on the IT industry but the most recent one in regards to the CPU and PC market seems to imply a fairly unlikely arrangement that may or may not be made between Dell and AMD. Advanced Micro Devices seems to be going through a really rough period lately, what with all the m... |
15 February 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Google, or rather YouTube, is reportedly close to buying Next New Networks, a company producing original web video content as well as distributing videos created by others. NNN is responsible for some of the most popular regular series in YouTube and some of the more popular individual videos. YouTube wants to encour... |
11 February 2011
06:56 GMT |
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Tencent, the largest Chinese internet company, has acquired Riot Games, an US-based game developer. Tencent is said to have paid about $400 million for its majority stake in the company which values the game maker at $472 million. It's one of the biggest investments by a Chinese web company in the US."We shared ... |
5 February 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Intel has long been looking for a way to make a serious incursion into the smartphone business, and it seems its most recent acquisition may help it in that regard, meaning that ARM may have a fight on its hands.ARM has been the more or less undisputed supplier of mobile processors for quite a few years already, whi... |
2 February 2011
04:58 GMT |
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It appears that one of the biggest acquisitions of the past two years is about to be completed, though Intel seems to have found that it will have to abide by a certain condition in exchange for the EU's approval. Some time ago, the entire IT industry raised at least an eyebrow upon learning of Intel's pla... |
28 January 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Google has notched another acquisition on its belt, the company bought SayNow, a startup focusing on calls and voice messaging services. No financial details have been disclosed nor have future plans. The SayNow team will be working with the existing Google Voice team, but it's unclear if the product will be int... |
26 January 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Google is said to be in the process of acquiring fflick a movie recommendation service based on your friends' tweets and the general view of Twitter users. Google is paying about $10 million for the company that's been around for only a few months. It's unclear whether Google is interested in the servi... |
25 January 2011
07:17 GMT |
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It seems that TSMC is quite bent on expanding its production capacity besides just advancing its existing nodes, as a recent report has revealed that the outfit decided to spend quite a bit of money on some acquisitions.2011 will be a year of unusual happenings on the semiconductor markets, as DRAM and NAND, along w... |
15 January 2011
06:17 GMT |
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For Google, every major acquisition is, increasingly, an uphill battle. The company announced its intention to buy ITA Software, a maker of flight search technology used by many travel websites and related services, last summer. But the move has been contested by many competing companies. The US Department of Justice... |
14 January 2011
06:22 GMT |
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Network security solutions provider Sourcefire acquired young antivirus vendor Immunet in order to expand the company's security portfolio into the cloud.Immunet was founded in 2008 by former Symantec executives Oliver Friedrichs and Alfred Huger, together with Cloudmark's former director of emerging techno... |
7 January 2011
11:49 GMT |
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The latest meme about Google is that the company has become too big and unwieldy and it's actually starting to drive away potential acquisitions, along with valuable employees. While it may be too early to claim this, Groupon's rejection of a $6 billion offer along with the lengths Google is going to keep i... |
4 January 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Twitter has been growing, fast, and it's been in need of more hands on deck for quite a while now. Though it's one of the hottest startups on the web, engineering talent is on high demand these days, so Twitter is resorting to something quite common lately, a "talent acquisition." Twitter has "acquired" the... |
22 December 2010
04:53 GMT |
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AOL has made a string of small acquisitions this year and it's continuing with buying About.me a site which enables users to set up an unified profile page for themselves. The company is just a few months old and the service just went out of beta and gone live for four days when AOL acquired it."about.me is more... |
21 December 2010
04:10 GMT |
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eBay has announced an important strategic acquisition in Europe, the private sales site brands4friends for $200 million. The purchase will enable eBay to position itself in the emerging market where it has had no presence so far. brands4friends is particularly strong in Germany, where it has 3.5 million users, but ha... |
20 December 2010
09:06 GMT |
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Those users keeping track of such things will know that the European Commission and Intel do not have a very pleasant history, and the former seems to again be suspicious of the latter's activities. Ever since the European Commission fined Intel $1.45 billion for antitrust charges, it seems to have kept close w... |
20 December 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Google has acquired over 40 startups this year and that's not counting transactions that haven't closed yet, like the ITA deal, or the ones that haven't been made public. One example is the acquisition of Zetawire, a small company with interests in NFC (near field communications) technologies. While th... |
14 December 2010
04:05 GMT |
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Since the holidays are almost upon us, Dell figured it would finish the year with an acquisition, so it approached Compellent and got it to sign an agreement that states it will be integrated into the former along with all its IP. Compellent is a provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions with automated data m... |
13 December 2010
10:25 GMT |
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Google is on a roll today. It's not getting its hands on Groupon, but it has made a couple of smaller acquisitions. One of them is video-on-demand software maker Widevine used by a wide range of customers, from big Hollywood studios to web-only companies. Widevine's technology and existing partnerships shou... |
4 December 2010
06:22 GMT |
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The Google - Groupon monster deal worth $6 billion has fallen apart as talks ended between the two companies without an agreement. The deals site, which is said to be making $2 billion a year - significantly more than estimated, will go at it alone and aims for an IPO.
The news of the talks breaking down was firs... |
4 December 2010
05:20 GMT |
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It seems that Seagate's decision to no longer listen to proposals of acquisition ended up preventing the most gigantic HDD-making company from coming into existence.One might say that each market segment has two representatives that have been locked in a rivalry for years.The CPU market has Intel and AMD, the G... |
3 December 2010
04:13 GMT |
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In a bid to expand it data protection product portfolio, security vendor Trend Micro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobile Armor, a company specializing in encryption solutions.Based in St. Louis, MO, Mobile Armor is currently majority-owned by a New York venture capital firm called Dolphin Equity Partn... |
30 November 2010
12:15 GMT |
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The Google - Groupon deal is looking more solid with several new sources confirming talks between the two companies. What's more, there is a new, more realistic price $5.3 billion plus $700 million in earnouts. The price is closer to the more recent valuations for the group buy site and is certainly within Googl... |
30 November 2010
10:56 GMT |
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As some may or may not know, Seagate has been trying to become a private company for some time, and it seems that, even though the idea is still being considered, those plans have now been mostly put on hold.The well-known, world-class supplier of hard disk drives expressed its intention to turn into a private compa... |
30 November 2010
02:25 GMT |
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Over the weekend a rumor popped up saying that Google had acquired the deals site Groupon for $2.5 billion, a rather modest sum compared to some of the valuations the site had been seeing. The deal may or may not have closed, depending on the source, and the price may be higher than the reported sum, but something is... |
29 November 2010
10:26 GMT |
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It appears that Seagate is still quite bent on becoming a private company, and though private investors seem to be getting cold feet, new rumors are suggesting that a rival HDD maker might end up buying Seagate off.Currently, Seagate has market capitalization of about $6.7 billion, which means that any deal that end... |
24 November 2010
07:30 GMT |
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Google is said to be in talks to buy local deals phenomenon Groupon, though the talks are in the early stages and may not go through. Groupon is perhaps the fastest growing company of all time and is valuated at several billion dollars. There's no word on how much Google is willing to pay but it is said to be ab... |
19 November 2010
12:11 GMT |
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AOL has revealed its third quarter financial results, painting a mixed picture. While there were some upsides, things are getting worse at the once mighty web company. Revenue was down, year-over-year and, while profits surged they were mostly due to sales of several assets. "AOL is working hard to redefine the consu... |
3 November 2010
10:06 GMT |
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Antivirus vendor Webroot has acquired cloud security solutions provider Prevx and plans to integrate the company's technology into its own services in order to enhance their capability.Based in Boulder, Colorado, Webroot offers both consumer and corporate products. The company's flagship product is Webroot ... |
1 November 2010
14:11 GMT |
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While such things don't happen very often, it seems that Seagate may be planning on once again turning into a private company, the HDD maker supposedly already holding talks with certain potential buyers.Seagate's stock has been decreasing since January but, overall, it seems to be holding its own well eno... |
15 October 2010
09:29 GMT |
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The CEOs of Microsoft and Adobe reportedly met to talk about a possible merger to combat Apple. An Adobe spokesperson said that the two companies do meet from time to time, but declined to confirm whether Apple was the topic of their last discussion.eWeek picked up on a piece by The New York Times which spreads the w... |
9 October 2010
08:28 GMT |
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Xmarks, the ill-fated bookmark sync service, seems to be getting a new lease on life. After announcing that the service will be shut down due to failing to generate revenue, the company came back and said that there may be hope yet, as users were adamant about not letting Xmarks die. James Joaquin, CEO of Xmarks, is ... |
8 October 2010
06:51 GMT |
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