Archive : Acquisitions

Groupon, an established leader in the daily deals market has acquired Hyperpublic,a two-year-old location-based startup. Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. [...]

Rapportive, a browser plugin that shows you everything about your contacts right inside your Gmail will soon be acquired by LinkedIn. Sources close to the story including Techrunch has stated [...]

Groupon, the group deals giant has acquired Adku- a stealth startup founded by ex-Googlers based in San Francisco. Adku is backed by Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures and True Ventures. Adku was [...]

IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight in a move that will help expand the enterprise mobile capabilities it offers to clients. Worklight is a privately held Israeli-based [...]

Twitter has acquired Dasient, a web anti-malware technology. Dasient protects the websites of leading financial services, e-commerce, media, web hosting and other global enterprises from losses of data, revenue and [...]

Twitter has acquired Summify but is planning on shutting down the social news service. Summify automatically identifies the most important news stories for you across all of your social networks [...]

eBay today announced that it has acquired BillSAFE, a purchase-on-invoice technology provider based in Germany. The deal follows eBay’s minority stake investment in BillSAFE in October 2010. BillSAFE works with [...]

ReadWriteWeb(RWW), a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis, covering web apps AND web technology trends has been acquired by SAY Media. Techcrunch has reported that ” [...]

Google has announced that it has acquired Clever Sense, the maker of the app Alfred- Alfred is a free mobile app for Android and iOS that puts recommendations in the [...]

On December 2nd, CNN reported that Facebook is acquiring location startup Gowalla. Facebook is yet to make an official announcement about the acquisition and and Gowalla has also declined to [...]

Facebook has bought WhoGlue’s networking tool and the stakes of its 10 shareholders, including Siemens AG, said WhoGlue Founder Jason Hardebeck. WhoGlue filed suit against Facebook in September 2009, claiming [...]

Twitter has acqhired the team behind security startup Whisper Systems. Whisper Systems provides security and management solutions that transform consumer phones and tablets into enterprise-ready devices. In a blog post [...]

Microsoft has acquired VideoSurf, a video discovery company. VideoSurf, founded by four Israelis in Silicon Valley, has developed a technology that locates video clips on the Internet. VideoSurf serves up [...]

eBay has announced its acquisition of the team and technology of Hunch- an online platform launched in 2009 that delivers customized recommendations to its users based on their individual tastes. [...]

Facebook has announced it is hiring the co-founders of MailRank, a startup that focused on prioritizing email. MailRank is a technology company solving the problem of email overload. MailRank was [...]