Articles about M&A – Page 18 of 27

Clearwire CEO hints at layoffs, as investor boosts stake to repel ‘unfair’ Sprint acquisition

Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch met with employees this week to reassure them that even though Sprint has offered to buy… Read More

This Clearwire investor thinks Sprint’s $2.1B offer really stinks

Well, we saw this coming. One of Clearwire’s largest shareholders isn’t too pleased about Sprint’s $2.1 billion offer to buy… Read More

Dropbox ‘acqui-hires’ Seattle music service Audiogalaxy

Audiogalaxy, a music streaming service that was initially created more than a decade ago by developer Michael Merhej, has been… Read More

It’s official: Sprint is trying to buy the rest of Clearwire for $2.1B

The ongoing fluctuations in the mobile market took yet another turn today as Sprint Nextel announced its intentions to buy… Read More

Honeywell to buy printer and barcode scanner maker Intermec for $600 million

Intermec, an Everett-based company that develops RFID products, industrial printers and bar coding scanners, has agreed to be acquired for… Read More

SEOmoz buys GetListed for $3 million to help small businesses track directory listings

SEOmoz is gobbling up another Portland startup, this time acquiring GetListed for about $3 million in cash and stock. The… Read More

Commentary: Why the ‘fiscal cliff’ is driving startup M&A

President Barack Obama was reelected on November 6th, and since November 7th my phone has not stopped ringing. Every entrepreneur, investment… Read More

Google buys BufferBox, a rival to Amazon Lockers

The combination of the bricks and clicks world is getting a bit more interesting. Google today announced that it is… Read More

Zillow continues acquisition spree, buys HotPads for $16M

Zillow continues to bolster its position in the online real estate sector, announcing today yet another acquisition. This time the… Read More

Report: Dish made a $4 billion play for MetroPCS weeks before T-Mobile deal

Here’s some more evidence that wireless carrier MetroPCS was a hot commodity this summer. The Wall Street Journal reports that… Read More

Social ad startup Meteor Solutions acquired by Covario

Meteor Solutions, a social advertising and marketing startup led by Ben Straley, has been acquired by Covario in a deal… Read More

Bill Gates-owned Corbis buys crowd-powered photo newswire service Demotix

Corbis is expanding its footprint in the arena of photojournalism, announcing today that it has purchased photo newswire Demotix for an… Read More

Avanade buys Azaleos

Technology consulting firm Avanade has entered into an agreement to purchase eight-year-old Seattle technology company Azaleos. As a result of… Read More

Supercomputer deal: Cray to acquire Appro for $25M

Seattle-based Cray is aiming to improve its position in high-performance computing with a $25 million cash acquisition of Appro International… Read More

Zillow posts record revenue of $32M, buys mortgage software firm Mortech

Another day, another acquisition for Zillow. The fast-growing online real estate company today announced that it has entered into an… Read More

This Clearwire investor just fired a volley at Sprint, warns carrier not to meddle in spectrum sale

One of Clearwire’s largest shareholders is urging the company to sell its excess spectrum in an attempt to raise as… Read More

After Icahn takes Netflix stake, streaming video service looks to fend off unwanted suitors

Shares of Netflix surged last week after billionaire investor Carl Icahn purchased 9.98 percent of the streaming media service, suggesting… Read More

Zillow makes another buy, gobbles up NYC’s Buyfolio

Zillow has made another acquisition, purchasing the online home shopping platform Buyfolio. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Buyfolio’s… Read More

Sprint takes majority control of Clearwire, buys Craig McCaw’s holdings

What a long strange trip it’s been. Sprint Nextel announced today in a SEC filing that it plans to acquire… Read More

Microsoft buys cloud storage startup StorSimple

Microsoft is bolstering its cloud storage business, acquiring Santa Clara, California-based appliance maker StorSimple in a deal of undisclosed size. In… Read More

Sprint reportedly in no hurry to gobble up Clearwire

There’s been a lot of speculation about what will happen to Clearwire following Softbank’s purchase this week of a 70… Read More

MetroPCS shareholders file suit over T-Mobile deal, call it ‘drastically undervalued’

Big mergers usually bring out the lawyers, and so it’s not a surprise that one of the highest-profile wireless transactions… Read More

Data recovery startup Doyenz sells rCloud business

Bellevue data recovery and backup startup Doyenz has sold its rCloud business to a subsidiary of Persistent Systems Ltd., a… Read More

Report: Amazon eyeing Texas Instruments’ mobile chip unit

Amazon.com is reportedly looking to buy the mobile chip unit of Texas Instruments, a potentially bold move that would push… Read More

Mobile security startup Mobilisafe acquired by Rapid7

Seattle startup Mobilisafe has been acquired in a deal of undisclosed size by Boston-based Rapid7, a heavily-funded security company that… Read More

History: Did Amazon try to buy Netflix for $12M in 1999?

Just imagine what could have been? A new book to be released this week by Reuters reporter Gina Keating suggests… Read More

Commentary: What T-Mobile’s proposed buy of MetroPCS means for you

The proposed merger between T-Mobile and MetroPCS has been huge news all week. If approved, though, the deal will still… Read More

Microsoft buys PhoneFactor to protect users from password theft

Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front since its $1.2 billion buy of Yammer in July. But this… Read More

Expanding into event listings, Startup Weekend buys StartupDigest

Startup Weekend announced today that it has acquired StartupDigest, the email newsletter which lists startup-oriented events in 99 cities around… Read More

T-Mobile parent considering MetroPCS buyout

Newly-appointed T-Mobile USA CEO John Legere promised a new era of competition for the Bellevue wireless carrier when he took… Read More