Yahoo's board has reportedly approved a $1.1 billion, all-cash offer to acquire Tumblr, a rapidly-growing and very popular microblogging server.
High-end design firm Fjord counts Nokia, Citibank, Harvard Medical School, and PayPal among its clients.
Guest Post As the pursuit of business growth becomes even more urgent, companies must overcome these myths.
Editor's Pick The race to buy a startup illustrates the hype and hopes for gesture-based technology.
T-Mo and Metro have the urge to merge, and they meet all government requirements. The companies have already announced a new combined board.
Salesforce announced plans to offer $1 billion in convertible senior notes in a private placement to institutional investors.
Practice Fusion has acquired 100Plus, a startup that provides personalized health predictions to consumers, for a combination of stock and cash.
Private company research firm Privco has ranked the top 20 merger and acquisitions of the top 20 technology VC firms of 2012, including Ancestry.com's $1.6 billion sale to private equity firm Permira and other top tech acquisitions such as Yammer, Meebo, Instagram, and NextG networks.
Vuclip acquires Jigsee to make mobile videos accessible to people on any device, in any country.
In 2012, the value of global mergers and acquisitions fell by 35%, but deal volume held steady.
Guest Post Virtually all tech acquisitions are characterized by large companies buying small companies, often for cash. But why does this have to be the case? Why can’t small companies also participate in this bonanza of great technology destined for the trash heap?
Just weeks after we reported a shift in strategy at VMware, the virtualization giant has announced its intent to acquire Virsto Software, a provider of storage performance optimization software.
Today, Autonomy is being investigated for misrepresenting its sales and accounting prior to the acquisition by Britain's accounting watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council.
Salesforce.com has acquired Entropysoft, a French company that offers content integration solutions.
With entrepreneur-friendly government regulation and high-quality late stage companies on the cusp of going public, VCs expect to see solid returns in the coming year.
Want to get acquired? Shut up, of course you do. Here are a few helpful pointers from an M&A firm and a recent acquiree.
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Forget about consumer IPOs: The vast majority of companies expected to go to the public markets in 2013 will be business-focused.
Zenprise has been acquired by Citrix, which may come as a surprise to Silicon Valley insiders who expected an initial public offering from the red-hot mobile security startup.
Google purchased BufferBox, a startup that makes e-commerce delivery more convenient by setting up locals lockers for parcel pick-up.
