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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
comScore Acquires Analytics Firm AdXpose
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Audience analytics firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is acquiring ad campaign effectiveness firm AdXpose for $22 million in a mostly stock-based tr… Read more »
Red Bee Buying TV Genius To Makes Its Video Player Cleverer
The TV Genius company, which provides recommendation engines, search and TV guides to broadcast platforms, is being acquired by Red Bee Medi… Read more »
DOJ Extends Review Period For Google-AdMeld Deal
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The Department of Justice’s 30-day review period of Google’s $400 million acquisition of supply side platform AdMeld has ended, so the agenc… Read more »
Senator Franken Joins Chorus Opposing AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
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Add Minnesota Senator Al Franken to the list of people who oppose the merger of AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile, and he’s not joking. Allowing t… Read more »
Lolapps, 6waves Merge For Social Games Heft
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Polaris- and Ron Conway-backed social games maker Lolapps of San Francisco is merging with Hong Kong-based counterpart 6waves, as each plays… Read more »
Moonpig Flies In To Photobox For £120 Million
There’s money in turning digital to physical… the online photo printer Photobox is buying the Moonpig.com personalised greeting card servi… Read more »
Access Industries Closes $3.3 Billion Purchase Of Warner Music Group
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Warner Music Group’s sale to Access Industries has been completed for $8.25 per share in cash, or $3.3 billion. The record label’s board app… Read more »
Corbis Acquires Celeb Photo Distributor Splash News
Despite all the hand-wringing about tabloids and invasion of privacy resulting from the News of The World phone hacking scandal, gossip shee… Read more »
Google Eyeing InterDigital’s Treasure Chest Of Mobile Patents
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) knows it has a mobile patent problem, and addressing that concern could be one of the most important things it does over… Read more »
JWT Acquires ‘Shopping Engagement’ Agency Lunchbox
With publishers looking to e-commerce to supplement a shrinking share of ad dollars, it’s natural the advertising agencies expand their mark… Read more »
Latino Social Net Quepasa Buys myYearbook For $100 million
Teen-focused social net myYearbook is being bought by Quepasa, the Spanish and Portuguese community site and social gaming operator, for $10… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-19-11
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» Murdochs Have A Lot Riding On Tuesday’s Command Performance (paidContent)
» Bye Bye, Borders: Chain Shuttering All… Read more »
Bebo Owner Leads Takeover Of UK TV Site SeeSaw, Arqiva Keeps 25 Percent
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The rumours are true – after missing out on buying MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) last month, Criterion Capital Partners is acquiring SeeSaw, the UK on… Read more »
Publicis Groupe Offering To Buy Social Media Marketer Big Fuel
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The trend of agencies look to build up their social media capabilities with specialized marketing services acquisitions has accelerated in r… Read more »
News Corp. Pulls BSkyB Bid In Face Of Overwhelming Resistance
Rather that postpone what was heading towards inevitability — and endure the increased scrutiny that comes with it, Rupert Murdoch is backi… Read more »
Display Ad Consolidation: Collective Acquires Tumri
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The wave of a display ad space acquisitions shows no sign of slowing, and ad tech firm Collective has been one of the most active buyers lat… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-06-11
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» Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music suspects pranksters hit Irish website (Reuters)
» Does Turnover Signal Tumult at The Huffin… Read more »
Specific Media’s MySpace Deal: Transforming An Ad Net Into A Media Company
Even before serious talk began that MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) was in play , Specific Media co-founder and CEO Tim Vanderhook was looking for an ac… Read more »
Amazon’s Bid For The Book Depository: User Backlash And Regulatory Inquiry
Yesterday’s news that Amazon would be gobbling up UK-based online bookseller The Book Depository is not a done and dusted deal just yet. Tod… Read more »
Update: Amazon The Consolidator Gobbles Up The Book Depository
Amazon looks like it might be trying to beef up its long tail cred with some direct in-house expertise, rather than simply relying on its th… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-30-11: Oracle/Google; Nokia; iOS Users; Skype
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Oracle/Android: We knew Oracle was going to be asking for a lot in damages from Andro… Read more »
Russian Game Reviews Site Kanobu Sells To Portal Publishers
In Russia, the Afisha entertainment publisher and Rambler web portal, which were last year merged by their respective owner ProfMedia, are b… Read more »
Nokia’s Asset Offload Continues: Messaging Biz Goes To Synchronica For $25M
The streamlining at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continues apace. Today it was announced that the Finnish company has sold its North American messaging… Read more »
