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Mergers and Acquisitions

Getty Images Is Selling To PE Firm Hellman & Friedman For $2.4 Billion

Selling itself for a 39% premium over its Friday stock price, Getty, based in Seattle, was founded in 1995, has grown through a series of acquisitions...it says it has 4 million monthly unique visitors more...
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Troubled Revver is acquired amid spike in interest

Greenspan to the rescue. No, really. LiveUniverse, owned by MySpace.com co-founder Brad Greenspan is acquiring the troubled video sharing / aggregating site Revver and its employees breathed a big sigh more...
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Source Says: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened”

Michael Arrington follows up his previous story on Bebo. He says that Bebo, which is the second largest social network in the UK behind Facebook, either signed a deal, or is sending out false messages more...
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Sun Snaps Russian-Developed Desktop Virtualization VirtualBox

German headquartered, Innotek, the makers of VirtualBox which runs on various operating systems Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and OpenSolaris is being accquired by Sun Microsystems. Since its release in January more...
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HotOrNot Gets Cold Cash Offer

A group of investors affiliated with Canadian company Avid Life Media has bought the website HotOrNot which was started just for fun and which also inspired a TV series with that name. Apparently it was more...
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Microsoft To Acquire Sidekick Backer Danger

Danger, the backer of Sidekick (which uses T-Mobile as the carrier) and which has raised $142 Million so far in funding, and which was planning to file for a $100 Million IPO, and which was losing money more...
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UStream.tv working on a $50 million sale to Microsoft

UStream, which focuses more on broadcasts of events, rather than lifecasts -- extremely boring 24/7 video streams of people's lives, is reportedly negotiating a $50 Million dollar sale to Microsoft. Microsoft more...
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Microsoft buys 3D company for Virtual Earth

In December, Microsoft bought Multimap, which also became a wholly owned subsidiary and works with the Virtual Earth and Search groups. Multimap develops online mapping services and now it has bought Caligari, more...
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Is M&A Really Dead?

Taking the example of Golden Telecom’s response document to the tender offer by Vimpel Communications to acquire all of Golden Telecom’s outstanding shares, Stephen M. Davidoff explores the topic of more...
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Sun Buys MySQL

Sun is acquiring open source database company MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. MySQL is used by many of the web's largest companies, including YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia, more...
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