Categorised as: Mergers & Acquisitions & News
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The digital business week News
17.01.2011 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Online Business, Mergers & Acquisitions, Legal, Financial Results, Financial, Digital Business, Computers -
BAE offers to buy Norkom for €217m News
14.01.2011 Global defence and security firm BAE Systems has offered to buy Irish financial software company Norkom for €217m or €2.10 per share. -
News Corp considering MySpace sale, spinoff or merger News
13.01.2011 News Corp is looking into a spinoff, merger or sale of MySpace, just after the ailing social-media site announced it would cut half of its staff.Categories: Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Leadership & Management, Jobs, Internet, Digital Business -
Accenture acquires German CRM software company News
11.01.2011 Accenture has completed its acquisition of CAS Computer Anwendungs - und Systemberatung AG (CAS), based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, for an undisclosed amount. -
Skype to acquire Qik News
07.01.2011 Skype is to strengthen its video-sharing capabilities across devices with its acquisition of Qik, the California-based provider of mobile video software that allows people to...Categories: Software, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, Media, Internet, Engineering -
Deals done this past week News
10.01.2011 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector.Categories: Deals Done, Mergers & Acquisitions -
Shell Brazil Holding and Cosan S.A. in joint ethanol venture News
04.01.2011 The European Commission has cleared the creation of a joint venture between Shell Brazil Holding and Cosan S.A. Indústria e Comércio of Brazil for the production, distribution... -
Tech CEOs named as top wealth creators in US News
21.12.2010 Priceline.com’s Jeffrey Boyd, Apple’s Steve Jobs and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos have been named No 1, No 4 and No 5 top wealth creators respectively in the US. -
AOL acquires start-up About.me News
21.12.2010 Internet player AOL has acquired a personal profiles website for an undisclosed sum, just four days after the site launched publicly. -
Deals done this past week News
20.12.2010 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector.Categories: Deals Done, Mergers & Acquisitions -
Deloitte expands with Curach acquisition News
14.12.2010 Business advisory firm Deloitte has acquired Irish consultancy Curach Consulting for an undisclosed sum. The move will expand Deloitte’s 300-strong workforce with an additional... -
The founder returns - Birch is back at Bebo News
09.12.2010 Bebo founder Michael Birch has returned to the company he sold to AOL in 2008 for US$850m. He will join the company as strategic adviser and has reinvested in the company.Categories: Social Media, Networking, Multimedia, Mergers & Acquisitions, Media, Investments, Digital Media, Digital Business -
XING buys Amiando for €10.3m News
09.12.2010 European social network for business professionals XING has paid €10.3m for event management firm Amiando, which organises and processes 100,000 events a year. -
Deals done this past week News
13.12.2010 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector.Categories: Deals Done, Mergers & Acquisitions -
Salesforce.com acquires Heroku for US$212m cash News
08.12.2010 Salesforce.com has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Heroku, a cloud application platform for writing Ruby-based applications, for about US$212m.Categories: Web, Virtualisation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Media, Internet, Financial, eCommerce, Digital Media, Deals Done, Cloud -
Google courts Star Trek technology with latest acquisition News
06.12.2010 Google has announced the acquisition of a speech synthesis company the internet search giant expects will deliver it "towards a Star Trek future".Categories: Web, Mergers & Acquisitions, Media, Investments, Internet, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business, Development, Deals Done -
AOL planning break up and merger with Yahoo! - rumour News
06.12.2010 AOL is looking to exploring a breakup of the company, which may lead to it merging with Yahoo!, according to reports. -
Groupon rejects Google’s US$5bn+ offer News
04.12.2010 Grassroots e-commerce site Groupon is apparently big enough now to tell Google it is not interested in being acquired. The company is approaching US$2bn in revenues through... -
Acquisition part of Zinopy's growth strategy, COO says News
03.12.2010 IT services firm Zinopy has acquired the software, solutions and support services of Visusoft, which trades as Datasoft – the company’s third acquisition since it officially... -
Deals done this past week News
06.12.2010 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector.Categories: Deals Done, Mergers & Acquisitions