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Mergers and Acquisitions

Search Engine Marketing Firm iProspect Buys Range Online Media

Range Online Media, which boasts of clients like Calvin Klein, Macys.com, Toshiba, The Sundance Channel, Hermes of Paris, Burberry, and Neiman Marcus, has been acquired by iProspect for an undisclosed more...
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IAC buys GirlSense.com Parent StarNet

Israeli startup StartNet which has raised $2.7 Million from VC funding and is the owner of the well-known community website GirlSense.com, that provides virtual dressing mechanism and guidance has been more...
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Analysis of How Yahoo! buying IndexTools changes Web Analytics

Eric T. Peterson, who has been working in web analytics for over ten years provides his analysis of the Yahoo shopping; Yahoo bought IndexTools to boost its Web Analytics kitty and shore up against the more...
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Canadian media company buys Y Combinator Startup

Communicate.com, a Canadian company that owns about 800 domain names including Perfume.com and Cricket.com, is expected to relaunch itself on Wednesday as Live Current Media, with plans to become a network more...
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Nokia acquires startup Trolltech

Trolltech, the maker of the well-known platform QTopia - a mobile one for Linux, has been acquired by Nokia as part of its sweep into the open source realm. Nokia paid about $155 million for a deal that more...
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Oracle is the only winner in Sun-MySQL Deal

Sun Microsystems Inc. gobbling up MySQL is perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the histor of tech mergers and acquisitions.
The move, announced earlier this week, is potentially more...
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Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 Billion

In a bid that will shake up the enterprise search market (currently held mainly by niche players), Microsoft has offered to buy the Norway based enterprise search company FAST for a neat $1.2 billion, more...
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Motorola buys Soundbuzz to bolster music offerings

Soundbuzz is a tiny company that provides mobile downloads based on OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) DRM (digital rights management) technology. In an effort to strengthen its music offerings to customers, more...
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Corbis Acquires Stock Image Site Veer

With a mixture of licensed and original content under its control, Veer offers not just photos, but also illustrations, and fonts, as well as a collection of merchandise (clothing, decor, art supplies, more...
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Zango Acquires Smart Shopper for $9 Million

Zango is primarily in spyware business and has acquired SmartShopper reportedly for $9 Million. more...
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