Game publisher Electronic Arts is the latest rumored suitor looking to buy casual games maker PopCap for more than $1 billion, according to sources talking to TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid.
As usual, the sources are remaining anonymous, so take the rumors …
Hulu is retaining investment banking firms Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners to facilitate a potential sale of the company. Prospective bidders were notified today that the sale process will begin about two weeks from now, according to information from anonymous …
The LA Times is reporting that Yahoo is the undisclosed potential buyer that made an offer to purchase popular video streaming company Hulu Tuesday.
Acquiring Hulu does make sense for Yahoo, which is looking to extend into the online video …
Google confirmed it has signed an agreement to acquire advertising optimization company Admeld.
The revelation came in a blog post written Monday about helping publishers get the most from display advertising.
Admeld’s service allows publishers to pull data about advertising …
It’s official. Twitter has acquired internet advertising startup AdGrok, founder Matthew McEachen wrote in a blog post yesterday.
AdGrok’s advertising platform simplifies the process of running internet marketing campaigns for small businesses that aren’t very familiar with the web. And …
Liberty Media proposed a deal late Thursday to buy the largest U.S. book retailer Barnes & Noble for $1.02 billion through the purchase of the company’s stock at $17 per share, according to Reuters.
The offer may seem high for …
Update: Microsoft has confirmed that it will buy Skype for $8.5 billion. Original story below.
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Microsoft is close to a deal with Skype to buy the internet phone company for $7 – $8 billion, according to the Wall Street …
Financial details of daily deals service LivingSocial were recently leaked — revealing the company’s valuation at $2.9 billion and total revenue of $50 million per month.
The information was revealed during LivingSocial’s negotiations to purchase advertising network Social Media for …
AOL has agreed to buy The Huffington Post, the fast-growing Internet-publishing startup backed by a controversial political figure, for $315 million in its third major acquisition of a power player in online media.
AOL is essentially handing over its publishing …
Earlier today PostUp, a service that claims to aggregates the “world’s best tweeters” announced that it has acquired Twitter iPhone and Blackberry client UberTwitter. In that same announcement, the company changed its name to UberMedia, the company’s third name, as …
Digital content-delivery startup YouSendIt announced this morning that its acquiring two startups: Attassa, which makes add-ons for Microsoft Outlook, and Zosh, which has an app to let you to sign documents from an iPhone.
Attassa, founded in 2007, provides add-ons …
AOL announced this morning that it has acquired New York-based Pictela, a service that distributes promotional content like videos, photos, and coupons across top publishers such as AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Glam Media.
While the terms of the acquisition were not …
Salesforce announced today that it has acquired Heroku, which develops and deploys web-based applications that rely on the programming language Ruby on Rails, for $212 million as part of its Cloud 2 suite of cloud applications. The company made the …
AOL, at one time a leading Internet service provider, is looking to spin-off its dial-up operations and merge the remainder of the company with Yahoo, according to a report by Reuters.
This isn’t the first time rumors of a deal …
It’s official: Groupon makes a ridiculous amount of money. In fact, it makes more than enough to reject Google’s offer, worth somewhere between $5 billion and $6 billion, to buy the daily-deal company.
Groupon has reportedly called off the massive …
Rumors of a Google/Groupon deal have been swirling for weeks, and now Google has apparently bought the daily deal company for $2.5 billion, an anonymous source tells the news site Vator News.
Neither company has confirmed the news yet, and …
Only in the bubble of Twitter-obsessed San Francisco would a buyout offer of $2.5 billion seem “insulting.”
Yet that is reportedly how executives at the microblogging startup saw an informal offer from Google and a larger offer of $4 billion …
Mobile gamers have become obsessed with small, pudgy and vehemently Angry Birds — mostly playing a game that sends them flying into walls and watching the sparks fly. So much so that Electronic Arts has decided to acquire the game’s …
IBM announced today that it has acquired OpenPages, which provides software to help companies isolate and manage enterprise risk elements. The price of the acquisition wasn’t disclosed.
OpenPages’ software highlights any inconsistencies in risk and performance goals — such as …
Publisher and television broadcaster Meredith agreed to acquire Healia, a consumer-oriented search engine focused on health information. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Healia will remain based in Seattle.
From Meredith’s release:
In the coming months, the Healia technology will …
