M&A Round-Up: Zaypay, Wallaby, 49Games, JigoCity Get Snapped Up
Brief news on several acquisitions from companies looking to expand in payment provision, Lat America, gaming and the daily deals space… Read more »
Community Writing Site Wattpad Raises $3.5 Million In First Round Funding
Wattpad, an online writing community that lets users share and collaborate on stories across platforms including mobile apps, has closed a $… Read more »
Canal+ Buying Broadcaster To Defend Against Online Upstarts
Vivendi’s pay TV arm Canal+ is to acquire Vincent Bollore’s free-to-air television business in a €465m (£404m) deal, a move the company s… Read more »
Google Acquires Zagat. Will The Service Now Become Free?
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expanding its push into local content with its acquisition of Zagat, which started out as a New York City restaurant… Read more »
Adfonic Raises £4.7 Million To Grow Its Mobile Ads Auction Business
If you think Android is a fragmented marketplace, take a look at mobile advertising: while there are clearly a few very big players like Goo… Read more »
Chinese Game Firm Perfect World Puts Up $100 Million For Investment
It only seems like yesterday online games were investment targets themselves. Now Chinese online game operator Perfect World (NSDQ: PWRD) is… Read more »
The Market For Plastic Discs Is Supposedly ‘Resurgent’
The world’s second largest maker of optical-media storage discs has approved a plan to raise $125 million in equity or bonds, as it tries to… Read more »
Report: AT&T Prepping Backup Plan For T-Mobile Deal That Might Please DOJ
It’s time for Plan B with regards to AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile, now that the U.S. Department of Justice has vowed to fight the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-02-11
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» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
» Techcrunch’s Arringto… Read more »
TechCrunch’s Arrington Steps Down To Start CrunchFund
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TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington may be raising a $20 million venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies, reported, citi… Read more »
LiveJournal Owner Sup Wants To Sell A Stake; Yahoo In The Frame?
Is Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) about to buy itself a slice of the fast-growing Russian online content, advertising and networking space?
Sup, which… Read more »
Updated: DOJ Files Lawsuit To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
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AT&T’s heavy lobbying of the U.S. government to allow its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile does not seem to have worked. The U.S. Departm… Read more »
Big Money For SMS-Based Social Media: India’s SMS GupShup Takes $10 Million
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With a lot of the focus in the mobile universe on Android, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and what is happening in the smartphone segment, it’s easy to… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-31-11: Amazon Tablet; China iOS; Apple/Wikileaks; FilmOn
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Amazon could have two sizes of tablet in mind for a launch: a seven-inch mod… Read more »
Limelight Networks Selling Eyewonder To DG For $66 Million
Two years after Limelight Networks (NSDQ: LLNW) bought interactive ad shop EyeWonder for up to $110 million, the content management company… Read more »
Ad Monitor DoubleVerify Raises $33 Million Third Round
Ad delivery monitor DoubleVerify has raised a large $33 million third round funding, which the company expects to use to build up its conten… Read more »
In Chinese Video War, Sina Buys, Tencent Builds
Chinese online video and TV operators are making strategic investments, as the market looks set to explode. Read more »
Yandex Buying Twitter ‘Newspaper’ Maker The Tweeted Times
Russia’s leading search engine is making a foray in the nascent market segment of socially-organised news delivery, by buying The Tweeted Ti… Read more »
Russian Portal Rambler Wants To Buy A Tech News Site
Russian portal Rambler and magazine publisher Afisha, which were last year merged by their owner, want to buy the technology news site Compu… Read more »
Bloomberg Buys Legal Database Provider BNA For $990 million
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Bloomberg is in the process of acquiring legal information services company BNA for $990 million. As competition among the three largest fin… Read more »
Bleacher Report Raises $22 Million, Aims For New Verticals
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Sports media site Bleacher Report has been on a big publicity push this week and now it’s clear why: The company announced today that it’s r… Read more »
Corbis Takes A Piece Of User-News Service Demotix
Corbis and the user-contributed photojournalism site Demotix are expanding the syndication deal they struck in March in to an investment.
T… Read more »
Updated: Skype Buys GroupMe, Looks To Ramp Up Its Group Messaging Services
While regulators have yet to give Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) the final approval to buy Skype, the Internet communications company is making some… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-19-11: HP/WebOS; Sprint/Clearwire; iPhone 5
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Here’s a look at some of the top stories in mobile today: Read more »
RR Donnelley Continues Digital Expansion With Purchase Of LibreDigital
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Another interesting digital acquisition by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., the Chicago publishing services company that picked up Steve Brill an… Read more »
BBC Bows Out Of Print For £121 Million, Sells Magazine Business To Exponent
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC’s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag… Read more »
Updated: Google-Motorola: The European Opportunity — And Challenges
If Google (NSDQ: GOOG) gets the green light to buy Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility for $12.5 billion, one area where the deal could be especia… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-16-11: Tablet Discounts; Googorola Fallout; FusionGarage
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Cheap tablet explosion: Prepare for a rush of reduced-price tablets come Sep… Read more »
The Audacity Of Fear: Patent Neglect Forced Google’s Drastic Motorola Bid
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The largest acquisition in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) history is about as far from its original mission of Internet search as one can get: it might… Read more »
Android’s Second Act Under Way With Google’s Motorola Deal
Android partners woke up to a very different world Monday knowing that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was willing to pay a 63-percent premium to acquir… Read more »
ESPN Scores Aussie Sport Site Footytips For Social Push
A small but significant acquisition for Disney-owned sports network ESPN: it is buying Australian company ExtraCorp Pty. Ltd, owners of the… Read more »
Google Buys Motorola: Patent (And UX) Defense
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Google buying Motorola (NYSE: MMI) is a strong defensive move against both Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) on two fronts: pate… Read more »
Google To Buy Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion: Big Step In Apple Battle
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is making a huge investment in devices and is buying *Motorola* Mobility for $12.5 billion in an all-cash deal. Read more »
Time Out Buys LikeCube To Sharpen Its Targeting/Recommendation Plays
Time Out, the listings and guidebook publisher, is upping its digital and social game: it has bought the UK-based semantic analysis company… Read more »
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
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In addition to releasing its Q2 earnings today, content aggregator Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has made two acquisitions: it’s bought a long-ru… Read more »
FCC To Review AT&T’s Qualcomm Spectrum Deal Alongside T-Mobile Purchase
AT&T (NYSE: T) has defended its $39 billion proposed acquisition of T-Mobile by claiming that it needs T-Mobile’s wireless spectrum in order… Read more »
Confirmed: Spotify Valued At $1.1 Billion For Global Push
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Spotify raised about €69 ($98.15/£59.97) million at a valuation of €774 ($1101.02/£672.68) million this summer for its roll-out in to… Read more »
McCann Worldgroup Buys UK Interactive Design Agency AllofUS
Despite the emergence of larger display formats that are meant, in part, to foster more creativity, most online advertising is still keyword… Read more »
Augme Buys Mobile Marketer Hipcricket For $44.5 Million
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Augme Technologies is acquiring fellow mobile marketing company Hipcricket for $44.5 million. The deal reflects what’s likely to be increasi… Read more »
Meltwater Buys Ice Rocket For Pro Social Monitoring
The news monitoring service Meltwater is branching out in to social media monitoring, after its core business of crawling professional news… Read more »
