Articles about M&A – Page 22 of 27

GlobalScape buys file sharing startup TappIn for up to $17 million

In the past few months, file sharing and cloud storage startups Box and Dropbox have raised massive amounts of cash… Read More

FCC: AT&T buy of T-Mobile would cost jobs, lessen competition

A 157-page report from the Federal Communications Commission indicates that AT&T’s proposed $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile would drastically reduce… Read More

Looking to salvage bid, AT&T may seek buyer for up to 40 percent of T-Mobile’s assets

Facing U.S. government roadblocks, AT&T is considering selling up to 40 percent of T-Mobile’s assets in order to preserve its… Read More

Will Netflix become acquisition bait?

Shares of Netflix have been absolutely hammered in the past five days, with the one-time high-flying video streaming service shedding… Read More

Microsoft gobbles up VideoSurf, a video search startup backed by Al Gore

Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front in recent months, ever since shelling out $8.5 billion for Skype.… Read More

Expedia boosts ownership in eLong by gobbling up stake from Renren

Expedia is investing more in China, a key market for the Bellevue online travel company’s international expansion efforts. The company… Read More

Bain Capital to buy Physio-Control from Medtronic for $487 million

After 13 years under the umbrella of Medtronic, Redmond-based Physio-Control is getting a new corporate parent. It was announced this… Read More

David Giuliani strikes again, sells Clarisonic to L’Oréal

David Giuliani already struck gold once with the sale of electronic toothbrush maker SoniCare. Now, the Seattle entrepreneur appears to… Read More

Did Amazon just buy a speech recognition startup to compete with Siri?

The Siri voice recognition service is a big hit with users of Apple’s new iPhone 4S. Now, is Amazon.com looking… Read More

Kindle rival Kobo sells for $315M to Japanese e-commerce giant

Kobo, the 2-year-old Canadian maker of electronic reading devices, has been sold for $315 million in cash to Japan’s Rakuten.… Read More

How to sell your startup to Google: Travel in first class between Seattle and the Valley

Entrepreneur Dan Shapiro –who sold Sparkbuy to Google back in May and merged Ontela with Photobucket in 2009 — offers… Read More

Zillow posts record revenue, buys real estate upstart Diverse Solutions for $7.8M

In its second report as a publicly traded company, Zillow today announced record revenues and said it has acquired Diverse… Read More

Urban Airship takes flight with purchase of SimpleGeo

Urban Airship, a Portland startup that specializes in push notifications and in-app transactions, has acquired San Francisco’s SimpleGeo in an… Read More

Reader’s Digest looks to unload AllRecipes.com

Five years ago, Reader’s Digest Association gobbled up Seattle’s AllRecipes.com for about $66 million. Now, the publishing company is looking… Read More

EMC boss Joe Tucci loves being in the backyard of Amazon and Microsoft

EMC Chief Executive Joe Tucci is in Seattle today, celebrating the grand opening of the company’s new 140,000 square foot… Read More

Microsoft buys Twisted Pixel

Microsoft is now the proud owner of an undead marionette cowboy. If you haven’t played the crazy (and oddly fun) Xbox… Read More

What do M&A executives at Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce really want?

Reporting from TechNW: If you’re looking to sell your startup company to Microsoft, Facebook, Google or Salesforce.com, you might be… Read More

Zayo marks 17th acquisition with purchase of 360Networks

360Networks, a Seattle provider of fiber network and telecommunication services, has been acquired by Zayo Group in a deal of… Read More

RIM buys NewBay for $100M

Well, it must be acquisition day in the mobile arena. Following news that Nuance had purchased Swype, now comes word… Read More

EU approves Microsoft’s $8.5 billion Skype acquisition

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion purchase of online communications company Skype just won approval from European regulators, clearing the way for the… Read More

Swype CEO on acquisition by Nuance: ‘It is a great outcome’

Swype built a powerful technology that allowed mobile phone users to input text with the swipe of a finger rather… Read More

Nuance to acquire Swype for more than $100 million

Nuance has agreed to purchase Seattle startup Swype for more than $100 million, according to GeekWire sources. The news was… Read More

Social media agency Spring Creek acquired by Mediabrands

Spring Creek Group, a five-year-old social media agency, has been acquired by Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands unit for an undisclosed price.… Read More

IPO window closes, raises fears among venture capitalists

Over the course of the past week, I’ve bumped into a venture capitalist and a high-tech lawyer who shared with… Read More

Amazon buying Palm? This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense

A report by VentureBeat overnight quotes an anonymous source saying that Amazon.com is “in serious negotiations” to buy Palm from… Read More

Pendrell forks over $90 million for ContentGuard, gobbling up more than 250 patents

Pendrell Corp., the Kirkland company formerly known as ICO Global, today announced that it is paying $90.1 million in cash… Read More

A match made in heaven: ooBible buys eBible.com

When I first wrote about the Seattle digital bible startup ooBible three months ago, I stumbled a bit on the… Read More

Verizon CEO: The merger of AT&T and T-Mobile ‘had to occur’

A number of big technology companies, including Microsoft, Facebook and Oracle, have come out in support of AT&T’s $39 billion… Read More

Oracle buys 16-year-old GoAhead

Oracle today announced that it is buying GoAhead Software, a Bellevue communications software company which has developed technology used by… Read More

Lockerz makes another buy, gobbles up video service Vodpod

Heavily-funded social networking startup Lockerz, which just scored $36 million in venture capital financing, is using some of that cash… Read More