Tag: Deals

eBay Announces New Joint Venture In Asia
Any eBay shareholders who were less than thrilled about eBay's $1.2 billion acquisition of Gmarket last June may feel better after hearing about a new plan that involves the pro...
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FTC Possibly Set To Oppose Google-Admob Deal
The Federal Trade Commission is not going to give Google's acquisition of AdMob a thumbs up, according to new reports.  Indeed, the FTC seems likely to take the opposite ap...
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Google Picks Up 3D Desktop Maker BumpTop
Google's acquisition spree continues with its latest pickup - BumpTop, makers of the BumpTop desktop environment, which is designed to bring a...
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Opera Acquires Email Service Provider FastMail
Opera announced today it has acquired web-based email provider FastMail.fm. Opera's offered its own email client since 2000, and now it will...
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Apple Buys 2 Companies For Edge in Competition with Google
Apple and Google are becoming increasingly competitive, and it would seem that they're even competing for who can acquire the most companies in the shortest amount of time. Appl...
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PayPal Lands Alibaba Deal
Earlier this week, Alibaba.com launched a new business-to-business platform, and now, it looks like eBay and PayPal will get a boost from it, too.  It's been decided that A...
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Google Acquires Widget Developer Labpixies
Google has acquired widget developer Labpixies, which developed some of the first gadgets for Google's personalized homepage iGoogle. It a...
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Yahoo and Samsung Announce New Global Partnership
Yahoo announced a global partnership with Samsung today, which will see Yahoo services coming pre-installed on a variety of...
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Twitter Acquires SMS Specialist Cloudhopper
Life is good - and rather Twitter-centric - for Joe Lauer and Kristin Kanaar.  Not only did they get to see Twitter hero Conan O'Brien perform last night, but today, Twitte...
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Yahoo Enters Partnership To Help Users Find Apps
The market for apps seems to grow bigger every month, and one way for a company to get its name out there is to develop some apps of its own.  A different - and much easier...
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Visa Buys CyberSource For $2 Billion
Visa said today it has agreed to buy online payment processing firm CyberSource in an effort to strengthen its ecommerce business. Visa said it will pay $26 a sha...
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Report: Google Discussing $1B Travel Acquisition
Even as news of Google's acquisition of Agnilux is s...
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Demand Media’s Strategy of Penetrating Major Media Outlets
Late last week, reports surfaced of Demand Media and USA Today reaching a deal in which Demand would contribute content to USA Today's website. This is interesting because it's...
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Twitter Acquires Tweetie For iPhone Move
Twitter's made another acquisition, and although this was a small move in some respects - just one man's responsible for Tweetie - it's had some significant effects, with an app...
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Yahoo Lands Exclusive Mobile Deal With Telefonica
Here are a few facts about Telefonica: it's a huge telecommunications company.  It's based in Spain.  And it's a good friend of Yahoo's, considering that Telefonica ha...
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