Recent Posts Tagged With 'acquisitions'

• Facebook shows interest in acquiring Twitter

  Posted on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 01:52 in acquisitions

  Twitter Turns Down a $500 Million Offer from Facebook Twitter has reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook on 24th Nov 2008. Twitter executives believed it was worth taking a shot at creating their own revenue-generatin...

• McAfee to acquire Secure Computing for $465 million

  Posted on Saturday September 27th, 2008 at 06:55 in acquisitions

  California based company McAfee has made a deal to acquire ‘Secure Computing’ for an amount of $465 million in cash. This deal will put them ahead of Symantec inc in terms of  enterprise network security. McAfee will be paying $5.75 per share OR...

• Microsoft invests half a billion in CareerBuilder

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 11:15 in acquisitions

  In a deal valued at nearly half a billion dollars, Microsoft announced on May 9 that it has bought a minority equity stake in CareerBuilder.com. The purchase agreement requires CareerBuilder to pay MSN up to $443 million over seven years, based on th...

• Google has plans for Digg

  Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 14:37 in acquisitions

  Google Inc. has signed a letter of intent with Kevin Rose to purchase the social news site Digg.com for around $200 million, tech blog TechCrunch reported. In contrast to Google News, where the stories are selected by computer algorithm, Digg’s...

• Google to cut DoubleClick jobs

  Posted on Thursday March 13th, 2008 at 04:22 in acquisitions

  Google plans to make an unspecified number of job cuts at DoubleClick Inc following the closing of its $3.1 billion acquisition of the advertising technology company. “An immediate task we’ll undertake over the next few weeks is matching ...

• Sun acquires MySQL

  Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 00:12 in acquisitions

  Sun Completes Acquisition of MySQL On Tuesday, February 26, Sun announced it completed the acquisition of MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database The billion dollar acquisition makes it the largest open source software deal ever an...

• ‘Yahoo or not, the Web is hot’ says Gates

  Posted on Friday February 29th, 2008 at 05:08 in yahoo, acquisitions

  SEATTLE: Microsoft Corporation plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc, the company’s chairman Bill Gates said. “We can afford to make big investments in the engineering and ...

• Take-Two refuses EA’s 2 billion bid

  Posted on Monday February 25th, 2008 at 12:57 in acquisitions

  Take-Two has refused an offer by Electronic Arts to acquire the troubled publisher for $2 billion, GamesIndustry.biz reports. Although Take-Two [GTA publisher] has rejected the cash offer, EA has decided to keep the offer open. The offer is a 63% sta...

• MS-Yahoo deal

  Posted on Sunday February 10th, 2008 at 10:04 in acquisitions, business news

  Yahoo’s directors meeting is going on and a decision on part of yahoo is expected soon. Speaking on Microsoft/Yahoo, interviewed by Gavin Esler, with Robert Scoble in San Francisco, on Fri 1st Feb 2008.Copyright BBC,strictly. DOWNLOAD this ...

• If we don’t buy it, then Google will

  Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 06:35 in acquisitions

  Microsoft has been sniffing around Yahoo for the last 18 months, but the twain could never quite agree on a fair deal in private. Microsoft has made a $44.6bn takeover bid for Yahoo!. “Today this market is increasingly dominated by one player....

• Microsoft acquires WebFives

  Posted on Sunday December 2nd, 2007 at 09:47 in acquisitions

  Microsoft has now revealed that they are acquiring the assets of Seattle based internet company WebFives. The financial aspects of the deal have not been disclosed by the two parties. Founder of the company Michael Toutonghi would now join Microsoft....