412 posts and columns on acquisitions
Apple Did Indeed Acquire BroadMap and Catch Earlier This Year
Only now coming to light, both acquisitions are several months old at this point.Oracle Acquires Cloud Marketing Player Responsys for $1.5 Billion
Marketing in the cloud is still hot.News Byte
Braintree Officially Joins PayPal as $800 Million eBay Acquisition Closes
EBay’s $800 million purchase of payments startup Braintree on behalf of its Paypal subsidiary has closed, according to a PayPal blog post. The acquisition gives Paypal a strong foothold in the world of mobile app payments, which it hopes to bolster with the smaller acquisition of StackMob, announced earlier this week.Continuing Its Public Content Push, Facebook Acquires SportStream
Take note, Twitter!News Byte
Yahoo Acquires Content Delivery Startup PeerCDN
Yahoo on Tuesday acquired PeerCDN, a small California-based startup that aims to reduce bandwidth costs for companies’ servers while decreasing content delivery response times. It is unclear what the acquisition — which was first reported by TechCrunch — will bring to Yahoo, though PeerCDN alludes to its love of Web technologies in its blog post on the matter.Viggle Tries to Bulk Up Its Social TV Business by Buying Wetpaint
The logic behind a $30 million deal: Viggle needs more users, and Wetpaint has 12 million readers and some interesting technology.News Byte
Yahoo Acquires Another Video Startup
Yahoo has acquired QuikIO, a cross-platform streaming video startup, according to a report from technology site Pando. Three of QuikIO’s employees have joined Yahoo as part of the deal, and the startup’s flagship product will be shut down to current customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Yahoo did not immediately respond to AllThingsD’s request for comment.Yahoo Acquires Evntlive, a Concert Streaming Video Service
Another small acquisition for Yahoo to add to the company’s video unit.News Byte