Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski has requested a trial-like hearing for the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger after deciding that the deal would hurt consumers.
The FCC’s hearing would be yet another roadblock to the beleaguered telecom merger. On …
Microsoft has acquired video search startup VideoSurf for an undisclosed amount, reports Israeli business news site Globes.
A handful of publications have indicated that Microsoft paid an estimated $70 million for the company, according to a report from TechCrunch Europe.…
Meg Whitman said Hewlett-Packard wants to grow more organically in the future.
“If we get out of the big M&A business, we have to invest in R&D,” the chief executive of HP said Monday on her first analyst conference call.…
Guardian Media Group, which is best known for publishing British newspaper The Guardian, wants to sell its ContentNext group of publications, reports AllThingsD.
The sale would comprise all the publications within ContentNext Media umbrella, which includes PaidContent.org (as well as …
Citigroup is close to finalizing a deal to sell off major music company EMI Group for an astounding $4.1 billion dollars, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cites anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The sale will be …
Electronics retail store Best Buy has closed a deal to acquire full ownership of the American portion of Best Buy Mobile from Carphone Warehouse Group for $1.3 billion, the company announced today.
The deal will give Best Buy full control …
Best Buy has agreed to acquire IT and cloud services provider mindSHIFT for $167 million to help extend its business further beyond retail, the company announced today.
This is an important move for Best Buy because the company is slowly …
Adobe has acquired video advertising platform Auditude, the companies announced today. [Update: While financial terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed, Adobe is said to have paid close to $120 million (mostly in cash) for the startup, …
Network giant Cisco has acquired video optimization software company BNI Video for $99 million in cash, the company announced today.
BNI Video helps Internet service providers manage their video services, including entitlement, billing and quality control. As VentureBeat previously reported, …
The latest big name interested in buying Yahoo may be Microsoft, according to a Reuters report from last night.
Sources tell Reuters that one camp in Microsoft is excited about the deal because it would give them a strong web …
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Who will save what’s left of Palm from HP’s bumbling? It could be Amazon, as the online retailing giant is in serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP, VentureBeat has learned.
A well-placed source tells us that HP is …
Microblogging site Twitter has acquired social information analysis startup Julpan for an undisclosed sum, the startup announced Wednesday.
The move is an acquihire of sorts, since Twitter has appointed Julpan founder and CEO Ori Allon as its new director of …
Glam Media, a content and media company focused on women but with increasing ambition, has acquired Ning, a web service that lets people build their own social networks. The purchase price was undisclosed, but the deal is well below Ning’s …
Google has acquired German Groupon-like deals site DailyDeal, according to a homepage message from DailyDeal. Google has not confirmed the acquisition nor have terms of the deal been disclosed.
Google has been off to a somewhat slow start with its …
Note taking service Evernote has acquired best-selling OS X image app Skitch, Evernote CEO Phil Libin said today at the Evernote Trunk event in San Francisco.
Skitch, which was originally produced by acclaimed developer company Plasq, lets you add visual …
Search and discovery startup Bagcheck has been acquired by microblogging site Twitter, the company announced Monday in a blog post. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Bagcheck allows people to share and discuss the contents of “bags”, which …
Business intelligence software maker, Jaspersoft, announced yesterday that it raised $11 million dollars in funding. The round was lead by existing investors Red Hat and SAP Ventures in addition to including newcomer Quest Software.
Jaspersoft caters to the enterprise with …
Today, Amazon announced it is acquiring UK bookseller, The Book Depository, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is still awaiting regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
The Book Depository offers free shipping to over 100 countries and boasts a 48 …
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[Stefanie Dhanda is senior vice president at Boston-based Stonebridge Associates, LLC, a FINRA/SIPC registered investment bank.]
While acquisition activity among medium-sized companies is returning to near-normal levels, today’s transaction landscape has undergone epic changes. The dynamics have shifted as buyers …
Google has acquired advertising startup AdMeld for $400 million, reports TechCrunch.
New York-based AdMeld, which launched in 2007, provides ad optimization services for web publishers. Its tools allow publishers to pull advertising from hundreds of ad networks, ad exchanges, and …
