Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Who would buy Sprint?; HP (NYSE: HPQ) reports early; Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) pushes a chea… Read more »
To Digitas, Razorfish, VivaKi and Publicis Modem, add Rosetta. Publicis, one of the big four global advertising groups, is buying the Prince… Read more »
Even though the growth of the modern mobile computing market is moving at whirlwind speed, one of the main reasons why it didn’t happen earl… Read more »
With Facebook expected to outpace Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as the biggest outlet for display ad dollars in the U.S. this year, any company that ha… Read more »
WebMediaBrands (NSDQ: WEBM), which has built up a portfolio of social media-focused news sites and conferences over the last several years,… Read more »
Why is Microsoft paying $8.5 billion for Skype when less than two years ago the VOIP service was valued at under $2 billion? Asked about tha… Read more »
Making its biggest bet yet on something it didn’t build, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) confirmed today that it is paying $8.5 billion in cash for S… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which has been quiet on the deal front for several years now, is reportedly set to change that in a big way, picking… Read more »
The winning bidder for Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) (WMG) is part-shareholder Access Industries, the diversified group owned by Russian-Am… Read more »
Bertelsmann AG has acquired digital media agency Smashing Ideas, Inc. for its Random House division. While the match between an established… Read more »
The Draftfcb ad agency is buying London-based digital production and marketing shop Blue Barracuda, to give it “a key strategic hub worldwid… Read more »
IAC’s local advertising network CityGrid Media has acquired the remaining stake in social media analyzer BuzzLabs as it looks to provide add… Read more »
Efficient Frontier, which is best known for its search engine marketing platform, is doubling down on the social media marketing space with… Read more »
Citizen journalism site Allvoices has been sold to digital marketer Datran Media. The deal seems like an an odd tie-up, considering Datran i… Read more »
Honk.com, a News Corp.-backed startup which provides personalized recommendations to car shoppers, has been sold to TrueCar, a site which fe… Read more »
Oft-rumoured lately, the reported sale of the TweetDeck Twitter client to Twitter itself now looks more likely, with both TechCrunch and Reu… Read more »
Limelight Networks (NSDQ: LLNW), the publicly-traded content delivery network, has bought up Clickability, which is behind a popular web con… Read more »
Local.com is buying Krillion, a startup that offers a way to search inventory at local stores, in its latest move to diversify its offerings… Read more »
PopCap Games, which is best known for casual games like Bejeweled but has been launching some very successful Facebook titles, has bought up… Read more »
Mediabank, one of a number of companies that is trying to expand the methods of online media buying to traditional media ad sales, has acqui… Read more »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has sold its Delicious bookmarking site to YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen in a move that lik… Read more »
The number of media-related mergers and acquisitions in the first three months of this year was about double up from the same period a year… Read more »
For the past for years, there’s been a tug of war between paid media (aka “traditional advertising”) and earned media (“social media marketi… Read more »
Last week’s Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) server outage aside, managing data on the cloud is still likely to be a hot area this year, so it’s safe to… Read more »
Two PE firms — Summit Partners and TA Associates — have purchased a controlling stake in online games company Bigpoint for $350 million. N… Read more »
Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the owner of the Financial Times and book publisher Penguin, has acquired education technology company Schoolnet. Read more »
Online polling service SurveyMonkey has bought up Wufoo, a startup that has developed a basic online form building tool that can be used to… Read more »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has purchased IntoNow, a four-month-old startup that has built an iPhone app that automatically recognizes the TV show a… Read more »
Consolidation in the mobile ad network space appears to be accelerating, as display advertising and lead gen provider ValueClick is acquirin… Read more »
It’s official: AT&T (NYSE: T) petitioned the government Thursday to take control of T-Mobile’s wireless licenses, an important step in the p… Read more »
Blinkbox will connect with Tesco’s well-regarded customer loyalty programme to enable de-facto format-shifting of movies, after the supermar… Read more »
Reader’s Digest Association is making its first acquisition since emerging from bankruptcy just over a year ago, buying home and DIY-focused… Read more »
Social media marketer Say Media has acquired “pet lifestyles” blog network Dogster as part of a larger strategy to buy and build content sit… Read more »
Abacus e-Media, a vendor whose content management system powers some publisher websites, has been bought out by its own management. Read more »
Our look at some of the stories today in mobile: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) reportedly making big cuts in its R&D staffing; mobile marketing agency M… Read more »
Online video services provider KIT Digital is paying $91.4 million for 100 percent of the stock in cloud-based content manager ioko365. This… Read more »
We still don’t have the official, bigger picture of what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) intends to do in its music strategy, and whether it will have w… Read more »
Video index and ads firm Blinkx is buying up UK ad tech vendor and network Burst Media for $30 million (£18.5 million). Read more »
B2B publisher Centaur is still in the acquisitions game, adding another specialist professional community to its line-up. Read more »
At last, an end to Vodafone’s French saga, and another chapter in the mobile operator’s continuing sell-off of assets that it does not contr… Read more »
