Articles Tagged ‘acquisitions’
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Is Google About To Beat Facebook To The Punch In Acquiring Waze?
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Thu May 23rd, 2013
Following Facebook, Google has also expressed interest in acquiring Waze.
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Yahoo Checks Off Another Item In Its To-Buy List As It Acquires Astrid To-Do App
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Wed May 01st, 2013
Yahoo has acquired another popular mobile app in the form of Astrid.
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Wavii Confirms Google Acquisition, Pulls App From The App Store
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Fri April 26th, 2013
The company behind Wavii has officially confirmed Google's acquisition of the app.
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Popular Read-Later Service Instapaper Acquired By Digg Owner Betaworks
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Thu April 25th, 2013
The popular read-later service Instapaper has been acquired by Betaworks, the startup studio that owns Digg and a number of other online brands.
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Google Outbids Apple In Acquisition Of News-Summarizing App Wavii
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Tue April 23rd, 2013
Google has acquired Wavii, outbidding Apple in the process.
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Professional Networking Site LinkedIn Acquires Popular News Reading App Pulse
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Thu April 11th, 2013
It's official: the popular business networking site LinkedIn has acquired the popular news reading app Pulse.
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Apple Acquires Indoor Positioning Company WiFiSLAM
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Sat March 23rd, 2013
Apple has acquired yet another mapping-related company in the form of WiFiSLAM.
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Popular Travel Site TripAdvisor Acquires Photo Captioning App Tiny Post
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Fri March 22nd, 2013
The world's largest travel site has just acquired an app that, at first blush, has little to do with travel.
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GoDaddy Acquires Mobile Website Creation And Management App M.dot
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Tue February 12th, 2013
GoDaddy, the well-known Internet domain registrar and Web hosting company, has just acquired M.dot, the startup behind the iOS app of the same name.
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Order Up! OpenTable Acquires Food-Sharing Photo App Foodspotting For $10 Million
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Tue January 29th, 2013
OpenTable has just acquired Foodspotting, according to a new report by AllThingsD.
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Does Apple Fancy Buying The Pinterest-like Social Network The Fancy?
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Sat August 04th, 2012
A mere week after it bought the mobile security firm AuthenTec, here comes news of another possible Apple acquisition.
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Zynga Goes Shoppping Once Again, Acquires Shoptown Hero Developer Wild Needle
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Tue May 15th, 2012
Zynga, the well-known San Francisco-based social gaming giant, has brought yet another gaming startup to its fold.
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