Acquisitions

Will A Google Acquisition of Hulu Provide Worthwhile Synergy?

by Mike Mansell September 7, 2011
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If there’s one aspect of our day-to-day lives that I am sure will change dramatically over the next few years I honestly think that thing would be television.  I mean, think of what TV was like fifty years ago – a bulky little box with bunny-ears and a black-and-white picture that families circled around in [...]

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Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

by Jeff Weisbein August 15, 2011
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This morning Google announced that it will be acquiring Motorola Mobility. An acquisition which CEO Larry Page hopes will “supercharge” Android. But perhaps, more importantly, Larry Page notes that, “Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats.”

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Google and Facebook In Talks to Acquire Skype

by Jeff Weisbein May 5, 2011
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Both Google and Facebook are in early talks with Skype about a possible acquisition or joint venture according to a report by Reuters.  The deal could be valued at $3 billion to $4 billion.  Skype is slated to do an IPO in the second half of 2011 in which it expects raise about $1 billion.  A Skype [...]

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Why Does Twitter Want to Acquire TweetDeck?

by Mike Mansell April 20, 2011
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With rumors that Twitter is in the works of acquiring Tweetdeck, what does the social networking site stand to gain from the estimated $50 million acquisition?

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Should MySpace Be a Prospective Acquisition for Google?

by Mike Mansell January 26, 2011
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After once having been a symbol of society’s social lifestyle, MySpace has lost a great deal of business and traffic over the last couple of years, and has ultimately become left in the dust as newer social networks such as Facebook steal the spotlight. Even after the overhaul that MySpace underwent a number of months [...]

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Drop It Like It’s Hot. Facebook Acquires Drop.io

by Jeff Weisbein October 29, 2010
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Facebook has acquired the file sharing/storage site Drop.io according to a post on the company blog.  The service will be shutting down on December 15th, 2010.  Yet again, Facebook is acquiring startups for talent, technology, and assets only to leave the startup to die (e.g. Friendfeed) or just to shut it down (e.g. essentially every [...]

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Does The TechCrunch Acquisition Mark The End of An Era?

by Jeff Weisbein September 29, 2010
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Now that it’s a done deal and Aol has acquired TechCrunch (along with two other companies today), I began to wonder whether this marks the end of an era.  While I guess deep down, I knew a day like this would come – it just had to eventually, I never fully considered the implications it [...]

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Aol Buys TechCrunch, 5Min Media, and Thing Labs

by Jeff Weisbein September 28, 2010
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It appears that it has been extremely busy the past few months in Aol’s Mergers & Acquisitions department. Today, Aol announced the acquisition of three companies – 5Min Media, TechCrunch, and Thing Labs.

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Google Set to Acquire A Company Every Two Weeks

by Jeff Weisbein September 21, 2010
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Google is currently on pace to acquire a new company every two weeks in 2010.  As we wrote about back in July, Google has already spent $1.1 billion on acquisitions so far this year.  While Google CEO Eric Schmidt told analysts to expect about one acquisition per month in 2010, the Mergers & Acquisitions team [...]

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Why Facebook Will Not Acquire Diaspora

by Guest Author August 4, 2010
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This article was written by Sam Phippen, who is a 19 year old computer science student at the University of Bristol in the UK.  You can visit him on the web at teaisaweso.me. A few weeks ago, Jeff wrote an article about the possibility of Facebook acquiring Diaspora. While I think this idea is interesting, I [...]

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