Recent Posts Tagged With 'acquisition'

• iMeem Finally Acquired by MySpace

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 12:37 in myspace, acquisitions, acquisition, imeem

  Is the air getting fresher with news of acquisitions and more improvements? We have had Firefox doing great in Germany, Google coming out with Goggles and  now MySpace surfaces with the completion of its acquisition of iMeem. The two had been b...

• Google Acquires AppJet: Let EtherPad Do Something With Wave

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 14:42 in google, finance, acquisitions, acquisition, appjet, etherpad

  Quite an acquisition day today, beginning with Apple acquiring Lala and now Google making the move as it acquired AppJet. The startup provides users with its online collaboration platform and with this acquisition, Google would merge the start...

• Lala Goes To Apple

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 05:40 in apple, finance, acquisitions, acquisition, lala, music streaming

  The rumors aren’t rumors any more as Apple appears to have actually acquired the online music streaming startup. Now that is going to be a bit harsh for Lala users, given how Apple has strict policies on using whatever is its property. 10 cents to...

• BusinessWeek sees change of Guard as Bloomberg completes Acquisition

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 11:26 in finance, acquisitions, acquisition, Bloomberg, business week

  Business Week is not more the property of McGraw Hill, the firm that has had its ownership for almost a century now. Today the acquisition of the magazine was completed as its ownership came in the hands of Bloomberg. The deal’s financial aspects ...

• HP to acquire 3Com: Lets break Cisco’s hegemony

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 09:18 in finance, acquisitions, acquisition, hp, 3com

  In bid to expand into the networking industry, the leading computer manufacturer HP will be acquiring 3Com. The idea is perhaps to counter Cisco whose networking products dominate the industry. 3Com also sells  the similar devices. The other re...

• Zappos goes to Amazon for $1.2 Billion, all the patience was worth it

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 in finance, acquisitions, amazon, acquisition, zappos

  After almost four months in talks, Amazon has finally pulled the shutters on the Zappos deal as it acquired the online retailer for shoes for $1.2 Billion. That’s almost $400 Million more than what had been anticipated. I guess Zappos will be ...

• comScore acquires Certifica, wants to have some influence in Latin America

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 23:52 in finance, acquisitions, acquisition, comscore, certifica

  ComScore, the web measurement and analytics company has bagged Certifica, which provides similar services. Certifica is based in Latin America and the purchase would help comScore have some influence in the region as well. We aren’t aware of t...