Cash-rich Braintree buys scrappy Venmo; can the duo continue to take over the mobile payments world?
The stock photo site to end all stock photo sites has been acquired by the Carlyle Group and several key Getty Images management personnel.
99designs, the crowdsourced design marketplace "real" designers love to hate, has acquired 12designer, the Berlin-based crowdsourced design marketplace that had become 99designs' number-one rival in the European market.
Saban Brands buys The Playforge, maker of mobile games like Zombie Farm, Zombie Life, and Tree World.
Damn, it’s a good time to be a social marketing software company.
While the tech world reeled from the announcement that Google is acquiring Facebook-focused marketing firm Wildfire, I caught up with the founders of PromoJam, a Los Angeles-based competitor, …
Wildfire, the social media startup that’s making huge strides in online marketing — Facebook marketing in particular — has just been snapped up by Google for an undisclosed price.
(Web rumors peg the deal at $250 million; however, a Google …
DailyBooth, the site that challenges you to snap a quickie webcam pic of yourself and share it with the world, has just been bought in a talent acquisition by Airbnb.
“We can confirm the talent acquisition of the Batch/DailyBooth CEO, …
Funding news flooded our wire today with so many announcements and releases, it was like swimming upstream in a hurricane to keep up with it all. We’re having to include a lightning round below just to cover all the bases. …
API management startup Apigee has just announced it’s acquired some interesting mobile payment processing and other technologies from the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC).
This deal includes a specific API for carrier billing for in-app purchases, and it plays nicely with …
Virtuata, we hardly knew ye. Ye never publicly launched, and now ye have been folded into the megalithic monster that is Cisco.
Here’s what we did know about ye: Virtuata was a Silicon Valley startup based way the heck down …
Updated with commentary about the acquisition from Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick. (Scroll to the bottom of the post)
Up-and-coming digital media company Nerdist Industry is now in the hands of early investor Legendary Entertainment, Nerdist announced today. Financial terms of …
All the news that lay dormant surrounding the July 4th holiday exploded all at once today in the funding world. Sometime amidst the barbecuing and pool parties, major deals were struck involving massive amounts of money. The biggest story, juicier …
Ten years ago today, eBay announced an acquisition that might rank as one of the most successful Silicon Valley purchases ever. In fact, it sits third on Ranker’s list of smartest tech acquisitions.
I’m talking, of course, about PayPal, the …
One thing people don’t tell you when you start a business is how emotionally attached you become to it.
The ability to change some part of the world with your team, product, and customers ties your mind and soul to …
Education startup Rafter announced today that it has acquired HubEdu in a move that Rafter says will help it further lower the cost of higher education.
The Rafter Course Materials Network is a suite of cloud-based software that helps colleges …
Los Angeles incubator Science has just made an interesting acquisition — and one that will give all its portfolio companies a huge advantage in getting traffic and revenue from Pinterest.
It’s bought Pinpuff. You’ve probably never heard of it; we …
Microsoft has officially removed the final veil to reveal its planned acquisition of Yammer for a tidy $1.2 billion in cash.
We’ve been hearing rumors about this deal for a week or two; the Redmond-based Windows maker has now issued …
James Proud is only 20 and he’s already sold his first company. Proud is part of the 2011 class for the Peter Thiel Fellowship – the one that encourages college students to drop out for $100,000 and the shot at …
What do you get for the site that sells everything? A UK expansion via acquisition, of course!
Yes, design flash-sale phenom Fab.com is celebrating the end of its first full year in business, and part of that celebration is the …
Investors in Cable & Wireless Worldwide have finally given the thumbs-up to an acquisition offer from Vodafone. The deal values the 152-year-old telecom company at $1.6 billion.
Vodafone is currently the second largest mobile company globally, and the CWW acquisition …
