Categorised as: Mergers & Acquisitions & News
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Yahoo! buys gaming infrastructure start-up PlayerScale News
24.05.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! has bought another company, just days after acquiring blogging platform Tumblr for US$1.1bn. -
RIP George Moore – big data and cloud industry visionary News
24.05.2013 George Moore, an Irishman who was one of the founding fathers of the decision analytics industry and who foresaw the rise of cloud computing and big data, has died. -
Accenture boosts digital offerings with Fjord acquisition News
24.05.2013 Technology consulting firm Accenture has wrapped up its acquisition of Fjord, a London-based global service design consultancy, for an undisclosed sum. -
AVG moves into social media security with PrivacyChoice acquisition News
23.05.2013 Not content with just securing your computers and mobile devices, security software player AVG has branched into protecting users on social networks with the acquisition of... -
Number of M&A deals in Ireland down 11.5pc in Q1 News
22.05.2013 Despite the increase in value of deals, the number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the Irish economy are down 11.5pc year-on-year, according to new data from the... -
It’s official: Yahoo! to acquire Tumblr for US$1.1bn News
20.05.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! has ended days of speculation and announced its intent to acquire online blogging platform Tumblr for US$1.1bn. -
The technology business week: Smartphones not selling fast enough, Irish firms forge contracts worth €17m on trade mission News
20.05.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Telecommunications, Social Media, Sales, Phones, Online Business, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Economy, Deals Done -
Yahoo! in ‘serious’ talks to acquire Tumblr for US$1bn News
17.05.2013 Yahoo! is believed to be in acquisition talks with social blogging site Tumblr in a deal estimated to be worth up to US$1bn. -
Deals site gets a deal – Foffit.com acquires Dealsireland.ie News
15.05.2013 Daily deals website Dealsireland.ie has been acquired by a Cork-based deals site, Foffit.com, for an undisclosed sum. Dealsireland.com says it will remain operational for the...Categories: Online Business, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Economy, eCommerce, Deals Done, Consumer TechTags: Daily Deals, E-commerce -
Digiweb merger with Viatel creates pan-European fibre player News
15.05.2013 Digiweb has merged with Viatel, a London-based telecoms operator, creating a telecoms operator that will connect 34 Western European cities over an 8,500km fibre network. -
Twitter buys data analysis start-up Lucky Sort News
14.05.2013 Twitter has snapped up Lucky Sort, a data analysis company that may help the microblogging site monetise tweets. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.Categories: Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Deals Done, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
The technology business week: Shareholders sue HP over autonomy acquisition, Facebook to buy Waze? News
13.05.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Salesforce.com snaps up social bookmarking start-up Clipboard News
10.05.2013 Cloud software giant Salesforce.com has acquired social bookmarking service Clipboard in a deal valued between US$10m and US$20m. -
Israeli news claims Facebook and Waze are in final talks for US$1bn takeover News
09.05.2013 Just over a year after it was announced that Facebook would shell out US$1bn for photo-sharing app Instagram, the social network is apparently gearing up for a second... -
Barnes & Noble shares rise following reports of Microsoft’s US$1bn Nook acquisition News
09.05.2013 Pre-market trading saw shares in Barnes & Noble rise 23pc following a report claiming that Microsoft is planning to buy up Nook Media’s digital assets.Categories: Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Media -
HP shareholders sue the company over Autonomy acquisition News
08.05.2013 Hewlett-Packard (HP) shareholders are taking the PC giant to court, accusing the company in a lawsuit of failing to properly examine the financial practices of Autonomy prior to... -
McAfee to acquire firewall protection player Stonesoft News
08.05.2013 Software security firm McAfee is jostling for leadership position in network security with its bid to acquire Stonesoft Oyj, a provider of next-generation network firewall... -
Best Buy to sell off its European business to Carphone Warehouse for stg£500m News
30.04.2013 One of America’s leading technology retailers Best Buy has revealed that it plans to sell off its 50pc stake in Best Buy Europe to Carphone Warehouse for an estimated stg£500m...Categories: Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, Leadership & Management, Deals Done, Consumer Tech, Computers