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• in Technology
  Autodesk Acquires Micro Application Packages Limited
  Connecting BIM software to manufacturing software
  by edelauna / on Oct 27, 2011
• in Business
  Mergers in Oil and Gas Firms on the Rise
  Despite the recession, merger and acquisition activity amongst oil and gas companies are increasing.
  by cmimanagers / on Oct 24, 2011
• in Business
  AOL Joins In On the Yahoo! Circus
  AOL has thrown in its hat in the Yahoo acquisition arena. Unlike Microsoft and Alibaba, the internet pioneer may need Yahoo more than it needs them.
  by jobertv / on Oct 13, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “acquisition”

 

• Websense Acquired By Vista Equity Partners For $1 Billion

  
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  San Diego-based security software developer Websense announced this morning that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners . The deal is worth approximately $1 billion. Websense said Vista Equity Partners will pay $24.75 per share in cash for the company. ...
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• payvia Buys Mogreet

  
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  Los Angeles-based mobile carrier billing service Payvia has acquired fellow Los Angeles firm Mogreet , the two companies said this morning. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to payvia, the deal will allow it to offer a solution which includes mobile payments, user targeting and ...
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• Breaking: Yahoo To Acquire Tumblr For $1.1 Billion

  
  I2Mag: Internet & Design Inspiration Magazine — Authority: 147
  As expected , Yahoo and Tumblr announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement for Yahoo to acquire Tumblr. As per the agreement, Yahoo will be work as an independent entity for the company while David Karp will remain CEO. The product, service and brand will remain be defined and developed separetly ...
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• WordPress Mullenweg Claims 72,000 Blog Posts Imported From Tumblr in Just One Hour on Sunday

  
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  Despite largely anecdotal media speculation, it’s not clear how the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion will be greeted by users of the New York blogging service. But rival blogging service WordPress’ founder Matt Mullenweg posted a blog last night that said that imports from Tumblr to his service ...
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• Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion

  
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  Internet giant, Yahoo has bought popularly blogging platform Tumblr, what does this mean for the likes of Google and Facebook? And Yumblr is born: Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion Rumors that surfaced at the end of last week appear to have been confirmed, as the Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo ...
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• Yahoo board approves $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr

  
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  Tumblr will be under new ownership soon, it seems. All Things Digital seemingly had several moles in Yahoos board meeting yesterday that approved a $1.1bn acquisition of the blogging platform, and suggests that the deal will be announced later today.
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• With the acquisition of Arkoon, Cassidian wants to form a giant European cybersecurity

  
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  After buying Netasq last fall, Cassidian CyberSecurity, security division of EADS information systems, today announced the acquisition of Arkoon Network Security. An operation that is part of a process of forming a safety champion large. ... Related posts: The European Commission is looking at the Micmac smart cards ...
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• The Importance of Reading to Babies

  
  Parenting Patch — Authority: 143
  As a librarian, a linguist, and an English major, I highly value and understand the importance of reading to young children. When I was a child, I loved getting lost in the world of books. As soon as I learned how to read, I was off and running. The first book that I really remember reading myself is Little House in ...
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• Cybersecurity EO and FAR Incentives

  
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  The General Services Administration (GSA), in conjunctionwith the Department of Defense (DOD) published a request for information (RFI)in Monday’s Federal Register ( 78 FR 27966-27968 ) concerning the “feasibility,security benefits, and relative merits of incorporating security standards intoacquisition planning ...
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• Will Facebook Pull the Trigger on a Netflix-like Acquisition?

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 554
  Once upon a time,  Netflix  ( NASDAQ:NFLX ) traded near $50 a share and had bad press on all sides. It had tens of millions of subscribers to its service, yet no giant company pulled the trigger on an acquisition. Since that day (actually, the end of September 2012), the price has soared above $217 and is out of ...
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• Yahoo And Marissa Mayer Makes Third Acquisition In Two Days

  
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  Marissa Mayer has spring fever – and the only cure? Start-ups. The Yahoo CEO has acquired  Loki Studios , a Palo Alto based-mobile gaming startup in her third acquisition in the past two days. “We are thrilled to be joining the exceptional folks at Yahoo. We believe fully in their commitment to creating ...
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• CA buys Nolio and Layer 7

  
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  On the occasion of its CA World conference, held this week in Las Vegas, CA Technologies has announced the acquisition of Nolio and Layer 7 Technologies, two young companies whose technologies complement its portfolio of ... Related posts: CA World 2013: CA highlights DevOps, mobility and SaaS Intel pays a ...
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• Yahoo Acquires Mobile Gaming Company Loki Studio For An Undisclosed Amount

  
  I2Mag: Internet & Design Inspiration Magazine — Authority: 147
  The week really meant for Yahoo as the company in the past two days has acquired a total of three companies back-to-back, including the latest in line-up, the location-based mobile gaming company Loki Studio . The announcement was made via Loki Studio Company’s website although terms of the deals were not ...
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• Even better aggregation: TigerLogic releases new version of Postano incorporating acquired Storycode technology

  
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  In a day and age when many acquirers waste the value of acquisitions, it’s always nice to see companies actually using acquisitions to greater effect. And that’s just what TigerLogic has done with the latest version of Postano —one of the early players in the visual aggregation space—by integrating ...
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• Kirtland’s Warblers, piping plovers, and dunes: this week in environmental news

  
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  The Kirtland’s warbler. Photo: Cindy Mead. By Allison Raeck, MNA Intern Every Friday, MNA shares recent environmental news stories from around the state and country. Here’s some of what happened this week in environmental and nature news: Michigan’s ever famous, endangered Kirtland’s Warbler (mlive): ...
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• Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer May Be Gunning For Hulu

  
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  All Things D has reported that according to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has recently met with top execs at Hulu , the OTT subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and ...
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• #FUNDRAISING: Outreach Tactics & Technologies Need To Adjust To Demographics

  
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  With the texts and tweets and the touchscreens and with those crazy(-cool) Google goggles and whatnot, a nonprofit would be daft to send those old-fashioned appeals by mail. The cost of printing and stamps, the hassle of upkeep of a database of address, the imposition of making potential donors find their checkbooks ...
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• Managing The Bounds Of Profitability: iCPA & iCPC

  
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  In my previous post, From 3rd Party To 1st Party: The Evolution Of The Google Advertising Toolset, I wrote about the evolution of AdWords data and how recent changes have constricted the incremental value presented by third-party paid search tools. I wrote in loose terms about using internal... Please visit Search ...
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• Is Facebook Purchasing Social Mapping App, Waze, For $1 Billion?

  
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  Facebook may be in the works of making another billion-dollar acquisition. This time, to increase the social networks mobile efforts – according to three reports in the Israeli press at  Calcalist  and sister publication  Ynet  and  The Marker  (all in Hebrew), Facebook has approached  Waze , the social ...
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• Twitter Acquires Ubalo

  
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  Twitter buys Ubalo and both the companies has made the official announcement on Thursday. Twitter has announced that exciting news via a tweet describing that Ubalo joined twitter. While Ubalo made...        
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