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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.
Tech Execs See a Dealmaking Surge in 2014 — Maybe
Also: More “acqhire” deals.
Time Inc.’s Closed-Wallet Strategy
The world’s biggest publisher spent three years without making a major acquisition. Related: The world’s biggest publisher has had three CEOs in the the last three years.
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Livefyre Acquires Analytics Startup Realtidbits
Lifefyre, the social commenting platform startup, announced Thursday it had acquired Realtidbits, a San Diego-based analytics startup. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Realtidbits will continue to work as a team based in Southern California. All Realtidbits users will be migrated over to Livefyre’s existing commenting platform, and the Realtidbits analytics software will eventually be offered to Livefyre’s enterprise customers.Facebook, Google Slow Their Startup Spending Spree
“Acqhires” dropped dramatically in Q3. Summer lull, or something else?
Facebook’s $120 Million Onavo Buy Comes With Lots of Upside
It’s not just about helping bolster Internet.org.
Facebook Acquires Israeli Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo
The move into the mobile data management space looks to be another step toward Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of bringing the whole world online.
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Yahoo Acquires — And Will Shut Down — Social Advertising Startup Bread
Yahoo is adding six employees to its advertising staff via an acquisition, buying social advertising company Bread, the startup’s CEO Alan Chan announced in a blog post on Friday. Bread makes a URL shortener that displays an ad between the time that someone clicks on the shortened link and when they are taken to the related website. Chan, whose startup had raised $3.5 million from a group of investors including Lady Gaga manager and angel investor Troy Carter, said Bread would stop selling its products.As Investment Rises, Games Are Still Raking In a Huge Slice of the Mobile Revenue Pie
And investment in those games is climbing back up, according to Digi-Capital.
AllThingsD Week in Review: Twitter’s IPO, Hugo Barra Speaks and Apple’s 64-Bit Question
The Top 10 stories that powered AllThingsD this week, in one convenient post.