Big splashy buyouts are not Apple’s thing. The technology giant prefers more subdued tech acquisitions and a lot of the times it prefers to develop its technology in-house. However, there is one big hole in its business model which is how to convert its 400 million and growing iTunes store users into a massive shopping [...]
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Facebook Gets on the Acqui-Hire Bandwagon with Latest Buyout
Get used to the word acqui-hire. As we explained in an earlier post, acqui-hire is a key way many established companies get the talent that they need to build up their existing or projected products while at the same time rewarding small startups for the time and effort they have invested in building up their [...]
Google Buys Out E-mail Client Developer Sparrow for Less Than $25 Million
The new trend in tech acquisitions it appears is not direct acquisitions. Direct acquisition is your standard acquisition–a company buys out another company and incorporates the product into either a standalone subsidiary or an existing product category and the product remains alive and supported. The acquired company’s product goes through future upgrades and updates. The [...]
Microsoft Buys Out Yammer Social Network Service for $1.2 Billion
The great thing about having a big sack of money is that you can buy businesses that have core competencies that your current business does not have. In essence, you are acquiring your way into new markets, into new capabilities, and into new opportunities. Microsoft, the software giant from Redmond, Washington, has not been shy [...]
Facebook buys Face.com facial recognition company
As we’ve reported earlier, Facebook was in acquisition talks with Face.com, a start up specializing in facial recognition software technology. In a post on its blog, Face.com has announced that Facebook has indeed pulled the trigger and bought the company. This is quite a momentous purchase for Facebook as it seeks to shore up its [...]
Google buys Meebo only to shut it down on July 11
Wow, that was quick. It took only a week from Google’s purchase of social platform Meebo for the search giant to announce Meebo’s shutdown. What gives? Apparently, according to rumors, Google plunked down somewhere in the neighborhood of a cool $100 million to score Meebo. The rationale for the purchase, it is becoming clear now, [...]
Verizon focuses on cloud computing market with Terremark infrastructure
Terremark and Verizon originally started out as partners in a group led by General Dynamics to service an Army cloud computing contract. By the time General Dynamics announced the contract award in early May, Verizon had acquired Terremark. The acquisition cost Verizon around $1.4 billion. This strategic buy gives the telecom and data network giant [...]
SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
SAP America announced that it is acquiring SuccessFactors this week for US$3.4 billion in cash. In order to boost its cloud strategy, SAP executives expressed their zeal over the boost that this acquisition will bring to the business. SuccessFactors provides cloud-based human capital management tools that is “highly complementary” to SAP’s offerings like the Business [...]
FCC finds the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger to be Anticompetitive
AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA worth $39 billion is said to be against the best interest of the public according to the finding of the United States Federal Communications Commission or FCC. Officials said that the merger would lead to the largest single concentration in the history of the United States mobile market. A [...]
DBG buys Digital Sports Ventures
Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG), one of the biggest online video content advertisement networks has announced its acquisition of Digital Sports Ventures. DBG who distributes and produces branded web videos marks its first purchase signaling its crucial move into producing and distributing original videos in niche verticals across the Web. Digital Sports Ventures is a platform [...]