Articles Tagged ‘acquisition’
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Updated: Sparrow Mail Has Been Acquired By Google
BY Jamie Young on Fri July 20th, 2012
Say farewell to the idea of push notifications for Sparrow!
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Only Good Things Will Follow: Facebook Acquires Gift-Giving App Karma
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Sat May 19th, 2012
Hot on the heels of its debut on Wall Street, Facebook has announced that it has acquired the popular gift-giving app Karma.
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Following Instagram Buy, Facebook Acquires Ambient Location-Based App Glancee
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Sat May 05th, 2012
Touted as "serendipity supercharged," Glancee has been acquired by Facebook.
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Jetpack Joyride Developer Acquires Cross-Platform Porting Technology
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Tue March 20th, 2012
Halfbrick Studios announced that it had acquired Onan Games and its Mandreel porting technology.
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iWake With AppAdvice For Thursday Now Available
BY Tim Chaten on Thu January 12th, 2012
Good morning! Today's iWake is now available. Have a listen ...
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Has Apple Just Purchased A Flash Memory Firm Based In Israel?
BY Joe White on Tue December 20th, 2011
Apple is expected to have finalized its acquisition of Anobit, an Israeli flash memory firm, for a rumored sum of $400-500 million.
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Could Electronic Arts Buy PopCap For Over One Billion Dollars?
BY Joe White on Thu June 23rd, 2011
According to TechCrunch, Electronic Arts is in late state acquisition discussions with PopCap Games - the company behind mobile classics such as Plants vs. Zombies and Bejewelled.
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Is Electronic Arts Going To Suck Firemint Dry?
BY Andy Faust III on Thu May 05th, 2011
For better or worse, EA's purchase of Firemint will have critical ramifications in the mobile gaming industry.
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Apple Did Try To Buy Palm
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu July 15th, 2010
Dan Frommer from Businessinsider has discovered quite an interesting little story today. Apparently, Apple tried to buy Palm not that long ago.
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Disney Taps Into Tapulous
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu July 01st, 2010
Interesting news is developing in the App Store world right now as Disney has apparently just acquired iOS game developer Tapulous.
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[Confirmed] Apple Buys Quattro Wireless
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue January 05th, 2010
Last night's rumors about Apple acquiring Quattro wireless, an Ad network, have been confirmed today by both Apple and Quattro. Furthermore, Quattro's CEO is now Apple's Vice President of Mobile Advertising. Hopefully, the WSJ was just as
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Apple Buys An Ad Network
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue January 05th, 2010
According to the WSJ, which seems to have a snitch in Cupertino, Apple isn't quite done with its Christmas shopping yet. They are claiming today that Apple would be about to announce that it has
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College Student Sells iPhone Application to Flixster
BY Andrew Robinowitz on Tue August 26th, 2008
College student Jeffrey Grossman has sold his iPhone application, Movies.app, to Flixster for an undisclosed sum. Movies.app, the free iPhone application, has been downloaded over 250,000 times and helps connect movie-goers with the films they
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