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This is getting pretty annoying and, what's even worse: it no longer surprises anybody. Yes, I'm talking here about Electronic Arts' desire to purchase Take Two. The short story is: EA keeps offering the same amount of money over and over again while Take Two rejects the same amount of money over and o... |
18 June 2008
02:41 GMT |
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It is no longer a secret for anybody that, in a few years, the gaming industry will have just a few huge companies fighting for the number 1 spot, while small, independent game developers and publishers will continuously be swallowed by the big guys. Which is a scary and completely wrong thing, but we're not goi... |
2 June 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Following Microsoft's interest in buying Yahoo and the Redmond-based company's withdrawal, Jerry Yang, CEO & Chief Yahoo, admitted that the latest few weeks were quite important for the Sunnyvale-based firm and, even if the company has been under the world's spotlights, this may also be a good thing. S... |
5 May 2008
02:14 GMT |
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The game industry is clearly in a phase where consolidation is very important. Late last year, we heard that Activision was merging with Blizzard, well, technically with the games division of Vivendi, of which Blizzard is the most important component. Earlier this year we witnessed the launch of an offer by Electroni... |
7 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Digg is shopping itself around, and a purchase is really likely to happen any time soon, according to Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch. The user-generated news site has been working with investment bank Allen & Co., that I last mentioned was the one behind Bebo being sold.An inside voice quoted by Arrington said that... |
7 March 2008
06:40 GMT |
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With the Microsoft bid that stands on Yahoo's table, Google saw that it couldn't linger any longer in its absolute dominance of the advertising market and that it needs to move. First it offered Yahoo! a sort of helping hand, letting it know that it is willing to take over their share of the advertising, if... |
8 February 2008
18:26 GMT |
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There are many top games that are using the PhysX software on PS3s, Xbox 360s and PCs and the users seem to be around 10,000. These alone are good enough proofs to suggest that Ageia would be a great acquisition - and Nvidia seems to believe the same thing, since they have announced that they will acquire the PhysX d... |
5 February 2008
02:27 GMT |
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Rise of Nations and Catan developers, Big Huge Games, will be acquired by THQ for an undisclosed sum. This comes as a follow up of the announcement THQ and BHG made back in May 2007 about an agreement for a role playing game led by Ken Rolston, Oblivion developer. The game is supposed to make its debut in 2009 for th... |
15 January 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Valve has announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios, the company responsible for the development of the very promising shooter game, Left 4 Dead. Both companies have worked together well until now, so Valve kind of decided to say something like: "Hey guys, we like you. We bought you!" Still, not a big surprise... |
11 January 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Karl Jeffery, the Climax boss, has denied the rumors regarding the company's acquisition by the German developers 10tacle Studios in 2008. Earlier this year, 10tacle's CEO, Michele Pes, said that the company would like to acquire 29% of Climax's actions."The agreed cooperation of our companies will fo... |
20 December 2007
06:52 GMT |
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The DoubleClick soap opera that Google stars in looks like it's going to come to an end. A preview of the next episodes, leaked from the media company producing it, clearly showed that Google was cheating on DoubleClick with some other companies in order to cover the whole market. The DART provider doesn't ... |
20 December 2007
06:31 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard has taken over the NUR Macroprinters company for as much as $117.5 million. This may seem a small takeover, but it is the second purchase in a three-month interval. In September, HP acquired MacDermid ColorSpan, another maker of wide-format digital inkjet printers. This acquisition is expected to giv... |
12 December 2007
04:54 GMT |
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Security company Grisoft, the owner of the famous AVG antivirus, announced the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs, another security vendor, which would bring several new features to the freeware antivirus. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the two companies said that the transaction was supposed to be... |
5 December 2007
08:20 GMT |
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Security company Symantec announced an agreement to acquire Vontu, a firm which is based on data loss prevention technologies which are able to bring new features to Symantec's products. The creator of Norton Antivirus paid $350 million for the Vontu, the transaction being scheduled to end in the fourth quarter ... |
6 November 2007
08:27 GMT |
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Wireless technology is starting to attract the big names from the traditional wired networking segment and while this may not be the best thing, it is certainly one of the facts. As the big companies are focusing their attention on the new technology, the smaller start-up outfit may get squashed or get assimilated as... |
2 October 2007
08:12 GMT |
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The Chinese computer manufacturing company Lenovo is not one to let its plans go awry so easily, nor does it accept defeat without a serious fight. Even as the company still has yet to completely integrate the European arm of the former IBM personal computer and notebook producing division, Lenovo still has many more... |
25 September 2007
10:56 GMT |
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Almost a month ago the Asian computer manufacturing company Acer publicly announced its plan to acquire the American system integrator Gateway for a sum of $710 million and after some legal problems with Gateway's investors the deal is one step closer to completion now.According to the news site computerworld, ... |
20 September 2007
10:44 GMT |
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Security for e-mail and web appliances is bound to get better as Barracuda Networks just acquired Netcontinuum which is a great provider of Application Firewalls. This new acquisition means that they can now expand customer adoption of Application Delivery Controllers NetContinuum. "NetContinuum is a recognized leade... |
18 September 2007
04:04 GMT |
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Intel announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the software developing company Havok, which is specialized in software applications and tools that are related to gaming and digital content creation while at the same time being one of the most important providers of software physics.In most mode... |
17 September 2007
06:52 GMT |
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One of the biggest hardware acquisitions of this summer was the Acer and Gateway deal that promoted the Asian company Acer to a strong position on the computer market in the United States as it purchased the ailing Gateway, once one of the largest American computer hardware companies. While this acquisition may insti... |
13 September 2007
11:32 GMT |
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It is widely believed, thank you rumor spreaders, that Sun Microsystems is looking to expand its business reach into the field of random access memory by bidding for the Rambus company which is specialized in the development of memory technologies, even if it does not directly produce memory modules. While the acquis... |
13 September 2007
05:42 GMT |
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The giant portal Yahoo recently announced that it agreed to buy BlueLithium, an advertising company that would surely represent a new strike in the battle with Google. The Sunnyvale giant will pay 'only' $300 million in cash for a company that recorded 145 million unique visitors every month and that was th... |
5 September 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Lite-On Technology announced its plans of expansion by acquiring the largest independent handset casing company, Perlos, who is a Finland based firm and has shares listed and traded at the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki. Lite-On plans to offer a public cash tender with a price of 5.20 Euro for every Perlos share in cas... |
14 August 2007
05:32 GMT |
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IBM wishes to expand its Information on Demand strategy by adding the small company Princeton Softech to its acquisition list. Princeton Softech is a company specialized in data archiving and privacy compliance monitoring software and its acquisition by IBM will lead to an increase of the giant's data management... |
4 August 2007
05:50 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that Google is one of the richest companies in the world so it's quite obvious that a potential acquisition made by the Mountain View giant brings a huge amount of money to the bought firm. That's why some of the business owners are hoping to get acquired by Google and become r... |
23 July 2007
04:08 GMT |
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The long discussed Google's DoubleClick acquisition might be blocked by the Federal Trade Commission, Scott Cleland, a US analyst, said today. If you didn't know, Google was brought into trouble when it first announced that it managed to beat other rivals such as Microsoft and bought DoubleClick, one of the... |
18 July 2007
03:49 GMT |
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The largest web-based dictionary Dictionary.com was finally acquired by the famous Answers Corporation, the owner of rival Answers.com, for $100 million in cash, the two companies announced today. Actually, Answers bough the entire company Lexico Publishing Group, LLC that owns several famous names such as Dictionary... |
17 July 2007
08:16 GMT |
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The much-debated Right Media acquisition by the Sunnyvale giant Yahoo is finally completed, according to an official statement published by the two companies' officials. The acquisition was first announced one month ago, Yahoo aiming to buy the remaining 20 percent of the shares as it was already the main owner ... |
13 July 2007
05:56 GMT |
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Google announced the acquisition of Postini, a messaging security company that is able to improve the Google Apps suite with new communication features. According to the two companies, the Mountain View giant pays no less than $625 million for the "company that offers hosted security and compliance solutions for emai... |
9 July 2007
09:40 GMT |
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Following the recent complaints made by Microsoft and other companies, Google decided to explain all the reasons for the acquisition. Basically, the other rival accused Google for infringing the antitrust guidelines because DoubleClick was regarded as a powerful rival for the Mountain View company's advertising ... |
28 June 2007
08:53 GMT |
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The Mountain View company is currently in talks for the acquisition of GrandCentral, a firm that introduced a revolutionary mobile system that caught everyone's attention. The deal was not confirmed, but the folks from TechCrunch sustain that the acquisition might be already closed as the two companies agreed on... |
26 June 2007
06:39 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo finally managed to acquire Rivals.com, a firm that is one of the largest providers of recruiting information concerning high-school and college sports. The main goal of the acquisition is the interoperability between the Yahoo communities and their "passions" as the giant portal wants to a... |
21 June 2007
05:39 GMT |
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The search giant Google is now trying a different move that can help the company beat Microsoft in some of the most important domains. It seems like the Mountain View company is interested in Salesforce, a firm that is currently offering one of the most efficient Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suite in the m... |
21 May 2007
13:06 GMT |
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Google owns YouTube and makes it even more powerful periodically, but let's suppose that Yahoo, the giant portal, buys YouTube. Let's see what happens next. First of all, I don't think Yahoo would pay such a large amount of money for an online video sharing service because the giant portal is rarely tr... |
10 May 2007
10:00 GMT |
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I believe all of you dream to have Google as a parent company because the search giant has an incredible financial power and can bring you a lot of customers. But how can you make Google buy your company and become your owner? Well, there is no official method but let's try to guess it together.Recently, the sea... |
9 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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What if Google buys Yahoo and the software giant Microsoft remains a single company fighting for the power of the Internet? Well, a lot of things would change but not necessary as a good improvement for the users. Let's have a simple analysis. If Google buys Yahoo and the giant portal becomes a Mountain View tr... |
8 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Today, MySpace managed to acquire Photobucket, the famous photo sharing service, for about $250 million. The company was looking for a buyer since March when they announced that the service is available to anyone who pays $300 million. TechCrunch sustained the two firms first negotiated the acquisition one month ago,... |
8 May 2007
05:09 GMT |
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Google might acquire Simply Hired, a job search engine that allows users and companies post job openings for numerous locations in the entire world. As Google doesn't currently own a powerful job search engine, Simply Hired is a perfect addition for the search giant's products as it is one of the leaders in... |
7 May 2007
06:10 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company is now preparing a new acquisition to help the company expand its services into the offline area. Wall Street Journal, owned by Dow Jones, might be bought by the search giant after several companies announced their intentions to acquire the 125 year-old publication. According to Search... |
3 May 2007
11:09 GMT |
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Today, Yahoo announced the acquisition of Right Media, an online advertising company that works with some of the most powerful firms on the Internet. Yahoo first invested in Right Media in October 2006 when the company acquired only 20 percent of the firm but the giant portal wants to pay more than $680 million for t... |
30 April 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Yeah, I know it. If you're not crazy, then you're not the man for business. If you're not crazy, you're not buying an online video sharing service for a huge amount of money and fight against the entire world, being accused of copyright infringement. If you're not crazy, you're not tryin... |
16 April 2007
04:53 GMT |
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Ericsson announced that it will acquire the business and assets of Mobeon, a producer of IP-messaging components for mobile and fixed networks. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Mobeon is a supplier of IP-based voice and video mail, key elements of Ericsson's Enriched Messaging solution, which is an important ... |
15 March 2007
06:26 GMT |
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If any of those reading this article has at least the faintest idea on what musical gear is about, then names like Ampeg, Crate, Mackie, EAW, TAPCO or Alvarez mean something to you. All these and some other are under one giant umbrella known by the name of LOUD Technologies, the master-corporation behind all them and... |
9 March 2007
06:25 GMT |
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