Tag: MERGER

A few weeks ago we told you that eBay was in talks to buy StumbleUpon. And then nothing happened for a while. Well, stuff happened, but the biggest announcement involving eBay was probably the new Firefox Companion for eBay. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that the talks are on, and that auction company could be prepared to shell out $75 million for the social web discovery service. There's no ...

Just hours after we learned that Microsoft was in negotiations to take over Yahoo! the talks ended. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that the talks were more of a quick chat. Of course the blogosphere went crazy Friday (slow news day) with speculation on what this would mean for both companies. Microsoft jsut lost its bid to purchase DoubleClick, while Yahoo! is expanding ...

No, that headline wasn't a mis-print, and those year-old rumors we reported are turning out to be true: Microsoft has asked Yahoo! to resume acquisition talks, and this time the big shiny number is a whopping $50 billion. Redmond must not have been too happy with losing that battle for DoubleClick to Google, as Mashable is reporting that combining both advertising and search powers with Yahoo! are ...

Wow. It's not every day that all the big rumors turn out to be true. Google has just officially announced its acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The press release wastes no time in attempting to reassure fearful users--the press release's second sentence is, "Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community." It ...

The rumored Google-YouTube acquisition we talked about last week might imminent--perhaps as imminent as later today, according to the New York Times' DealBook blog. DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin writes, "Barring a last-minute snag in the talks, the boards of both Google and YouTube were scheduled to hold separate board meetings on Monday to approve the deal, with an announcement possible after the ...

That famous and cutting edge blogging company SixApart, responsible for TypePad, Moveable Type, Vox, and LiveJournal today announces that it will gobble up social news aggregator Rojo along with Rojo's Nooz. According to TechCrunch, SixApart is planning to "sell a majority interest in the services business within a few months" (Barak Berkowitz, SixApart.com). We're guessing that means part of Rojo ...

Reuters is reporting that eBay and Yahoo! have struck up a partnership to strengthen their positions against Microsoft and Google. The deal includes integration between several of the companies' services. The Yahoo! Publisher Network will now be the exclusive third-party provider of graphic ads on eBay, Yahoo! will use PayPal (owned by eBay) to allow users to pay for its various services, and the ...

Copernic, best known for their powerful and free desktop search product, has been purchased by Mamma.com in a deal valued at approximately $22 million in cash and stocks. The deal brings together two companies that had originally announced intentions for a merger over 13 months ago, but had their plans waylaid by an inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission into Mamma.com's trading ...