There were rumors floating around last year that AOL and Yahoo were considering a merger. Then Verizon went and bought AOL for $4.4 billion instead. Now it looks like AOL and Yahoo will be under one roof after all, because Verizon is spending $4.8 billion to acquire most of Yahoo’s business. Basically Verizon will handle […]
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Chinese consortium’s $1.2 billion bid for Opera falls through, but there’s a new plan to acquire certain assets
Comments Off on Chinese consortium’s $1.2 billion bid for Opera falls through, but there’s a new plan to acquire certain assetsA group of Chinese companies that had put in a $1.2 billion bid to acquire Opera Software has scrapped that plan… and come up with a new one. Instead of buying the entire company, now the Kunqi consortium plans to acquire Opera’s desktop and web browser businesses along with certain other assets for $600 million. […]
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SoftBank to acquire ARM for $32 billion
Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank is buying UK-based chip designer ARM, which would give SoftBank control over the company that designs the technology used in the processors that power almost every major smartphone, many tablets and a range of other devices including servers, set-top-boxes, and even some Chromebooks. ARM-based chips are also expected to play a […]
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Watch maker Fossil acquires fitness tracker company Misfit
Fossil recently launched its first line of smart wearable products including activity trackers, a watch that can alert you to notifications from your smartphone, and an upcoming smartwatch. But it looks like the company is taking another big step into the smart gadget space: Fossil is acquiring Misfit, maker of the Misfit Shine and Flash lines […]
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Dell to acquire data storage company EMC for $67 billion
Dell may be best known as a business that makes PCs for home and business use. But the company also has a strong server business, and now Dell is making a big play for the enterprise market. Dell has announced plans to acquire EMC Corporation in a deal worth $67 billion. EMC is best known… well, […]
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Intel to acquire chip maker Altera for $16.7 billion
Semiconductor companies must be in season. A few days after chip maker Avago announced plans to acquire Broadcom for $37 billion, Intel has announced a deal to acquire chip maker Altera for $16.7 billion. Both of these deals come just a few months after NXP bought Freescale. Update: Intel’s acquisition of Altera was finalized on December […]
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Verizon to buy AOL, bringing two of America’s best-loved brands together
The largest wireless carrier in the US has announced plans to buy one of the biggest internet portals… or rather, the company that was one of the biggest internet portals in the 90s. Verizon plans to buy AOL for $4.4 billion. AOL has actually changed quite a bit over the past 20 years. The company […]
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Microsoft acquires popular Android and iOS calendar app Sunrise
Microsoft has officially acquired Sunrise Atelier, the company that created the popular Android, iOS, and web-based calendar app Sunrise. The announcement was made public via YouTube, but the video has since been reset as private. Rumors had been swirling last week that Microsoft had plans to purchase the popular calendar app maker for $100 million. […]
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Report: Samsung wants to buy BlackBerry
A lot of folks have been suggesting that the only way BlackBerry could save itself would be to start selling phones that run Google Android rather than BlackBerry OS. But if there’s any truth to a new report from Reuters, maybe future BlackBerry phones will run Tizen instead. According Reuters’s sources, Samsung wants to buy […]
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Nokia to become a Microsoft company in April
Microsoft’s acquisition of smartphone maker Nokia is set to become final in April, 2014. That’s a little later than the Q1, 2014 estimate the companies proposed when Microsoft agreed to acquire Nokia for over $7 billion last year. But what’s a month or so between multi-billion dollar companies? In a statement, Microsoft says that the […]