Liz Gannes in News on May 14 at 12:00 am PT
Wheelz had built hardware that helps renters unlock cars with their smartphones.
Liz Gannes in News on May 9 at 2:58 pm PT
Salesforce has acquired Clipboard, a social bookmarking service that had built interesting hooks for saving rich Web content across devices.
Liz Gannes in News on April 26 at 6:40 am PT
“While we won’t continue to offer [our] particular service, we’ll be using our natural language research at Google in ways that may be useful to millions of people around the world.”
Liz Gannes in Mobile on April 8 at 9:03 pm PT
WhatsApp exec says there’s no truth to acquisition rumors.
Liz Gannes in News on January 27 at 2:45 pm PT
NextBus, the provider of real-time transit information, was acquired by Cubic Transportation Systems.
Liz Gannes in News on January 22 at 11:37 am PT
Another step in its efforts to become a destination for content.
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Liz Gannes in News on November 28, 2012 at 10:29 am PT
Google has acquired
Incentive Targeting, a five-year-old grocery promo-offer company. And yes, this one’s been confirmed. Said a Google spokeswoman, “We look forward to working with Incentive Targeting in our ongoing efforts to help consumers save time and money and enable retailers to deliver relevant discounts to the right customers.”
Liz Gannes in News on October 25, 2012 at 3:00 am PT
Telefónica acquires TokBox for its video chat API, and plans to keep the company intact.
Liz Gannes in News on October 3, 2012 at 9:11 am PT
Airbnb has “acqhired” Fondu, maker of a “bite-size restaurant review” iPhone app.
Liz Gannes and Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2012 at 7:00 am PT
There’s nothing like a big splashy acquisition from a new flashy CEO to get people thinking the troubled Silicon Valley company is cool again.
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