Articles about M&A – Page 6 of 27

David’s Bridal acquires digital gift registry startup Blueprint Registry

Wedding retailer David’s Bridal has acquired Blueprint Registry, a Seattle startup that aims to simplify the gift registry process. In… Read More

AdSwerve acquires Seattle-based Analytics Pros for $24M, creating Google marketing powerhouse

Seattle startup Analytics Pros has been acquired by Denver-based AdSwerve, creating a combined 120-person marketing and analytics company that expects… Read More

Sales automation company Outreach buys Sales Hacker media startup in its first-ever acquisition

Outreach, just a couple months removed from a massive $65 million funding round, has made the first acquisition in its… Read More

DocuSign acquires SpringCM for $220M to continue evolution beyond electronic signatures

DocuSign said it has agreed to acquire SpringCM, a Chicago-based cloud document generation and contract management company, for $220 million… Read More

Here’s where Microsoft’s GitHub acquisition ranks among the tech giant’s largest deals

Bigger than Nokia and Minecraft, smaller than LinkedIn and Skype. And nowhere near Yahoo, but that doesn’t count because it… Read More

Nuance buys Voicebox Technologies, scooping up speech-recognition and natural-language pioneer

Nuance Communications has quietly acquired Voicebox Technologies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that was an early leader in speech recognition and natural… Read More

Marketo buys Techstars Seattle alum Bizible, adding new business marketing software tools

Bizible CEO Aaron Bird hit the fundraising trail earlier this year, looking to raise some additional venture capital. The Seattle… Read More

Internal memo: T-Mobile CEO assures employees ‘we’ll still be magenta’ after Sprint merger

T-Mobile CEO John Legere bleeds magenta, and the trademark color of the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier won’t be going anywhere… Read More

ServiceNow snaps up VendorHawk to help its customers manage their SaaS spending

ServiceNow has acquired Seattle’s VendorHawk, a recent TechStars Seattle graduate, for an undisclosed amount in order to add cloud software… Read More

Government data startup Socrata finds a buyer in Tyler Technologies

Socrata, an 11-year-old Seattle company that helps government agencies better utilize and display data, has been acquired in a deal… Read More

With initial backing from Jeff Bezos, Maveron and others, coding bootcamp General Assembly sells for $412.5M

General Assembly, which helps people learn technical skills such as Web development, data analytics and user interface design, is selling… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Seattle tech vet Peter Wilson to lead Blockchain engineering team; Madrona adds Ignition Partners vet

Peter Wilson, a fixture on the Seattle tech scene for more than 20 years, is on his way to London… Read More

Avvo to be acquired by Internet Brands, parent of WebMD and Martindale-Hubbell, in major exit for Seattle-based legal marketplace

Seattle-based Avvo, which runs an online legal directory, marketplace and reviews site, has entered into an agreement to be acquired… Read More

Sprout Social acquires Seattle social media analytics startup Simply Measured

Sprout Social has acquired Simply Measured, a Seattle startup that helps brands get deeper insights into their social media marketing… Read More

Kentucky Derby operator Churchill Downs selling Big Fish Games for $990M, just three years after initial purchase

Just three years after acquiring Big Fish Games, Churchill Downs Inc. is selling its mobile gaming subsidiary to Australia-based Aristocrat Technologies… Read More

Report: Amazon acquires Body Labs, an AI-powered 3D body modeling startup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=DL1FM2_l7ZA Amazon’s newest acquisition is a New York-based company called Body Labs, according to a report by TechCrunch this afternoon,… Read More

Seattle ad tech firm Mixpo acquired by ‘brand-to-local’ marketing company Netsertive

When Mixpo entered into a partnership with Netsertive last year, the two companies had no idea that it would end… Read More

Exclusive: Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push

Shwetak Patel has struck again. The University of Washington computer scientist has sold his newest Seattle startup company, Senosis Health, to Google,… Read More

SEC filing reveals new details on Snap’s acquisition of location analytics startup Placed

Placed, a Seattle startup that was acquired by social media and sunglasses vendor Snap earlier this year, went for $135.1… Read More

Amazon and Dish? Report points to possible tie-up between online retailer and satellite TV giant

Amazon.com and Dish Network Corp. have held discussions about the two companies inking a partnership agreement to build-out a new… Read More

Chinese search giant Baidu buys Seattle startup Kitt.ai to connect natural language tech to developers

Kitt.ai, the Seattle artificial intelligence startup that’s developing a conversational language engine known as ChatFlow and a “hotword” detection platform… Read More

Shares of Whole Foods close above Amazon’s price as speculation grows that outside bidder could challenge blockbuster deal

Shares of Whole Foods closed Friday at $42.68 — topping the $42 per share offer that Amazon put in for… Read More

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