Google acquiring Teracent advertising company
Google has announced another acquisition in the advertising market.
The search engine giant is now acquiring Teracent which specializes in intelligent display advertising.
This company develop solutions to provide customized advertising to individuals.
Google spoke about Teracent in a blog post:
“Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands [...]
Google might have acquired Gizmo5
Industry sources are hinting that the search engine giant Google might have acquired VoIP company Gizmo5.
Ebay was said to be interested in this company previously but their deal with the Skype founders meant that the need to acquire Gizmo5 is no longer there.
Ebay needed Gizmo5 in case they [...]
AdMob acquired by Google for USD 750 million
Google has acquired AdMob which had become a significant player in the mobile advertising market.
This deal is worth around USD 750 million and it could be bad news for both Yahoo and Microsoft in this segment of the market.
This would now help Google to expand their [...]
HP Enterprise Services is the new brand name of EDS
World’s largest personal computer maker Hewlett Packard has announced that they are renaming their EDS subsidiary as HP Enterprise Services.
HP had acquired EDS last year and it has become an important part of their product offerings. EDS acquisition was part of a 13.9 billion dollar [...]
Google considering acquisitions in place of hiring
We might soon start seeing Google acquiring small web start-ups in the coming months.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has revealed that the company is considering acquiring companies instead of hiring individuals.
He believes that the company could go ahead with one small acquisition every month.
Schmidt said: “Acquisitions are [...]
SpringSource acquired by VMware for USD 420 million
VMware has announced that they are acquiring SpringSource for $420 million.
This is the biggest acquisition deal signed by VMware in its history.
VMware specializes in providing virtualization solutions which has become a huge industry in the recent times.
SpringSource provides solutions to companies to develop JAVA based [...]
Yahoo acquires OMG.com for just USD 80,000
TechCrunch is reporting that the US based internet media giant Yahoo has just acquired a cool domain name.
Yahoo has acquired OMG.com for just around USD 80,000. This is a pretty good buy for the company considering the domain name sounds pretty hip and has just three letters.
Yahoo [...]
Google acquires On2 Technologies
Google might have sold their radio advertising business to WideOrbit, but they are investing more in video technologies.
The search engine giant has announced that they are taking over On2 Technologies which is primarily a video technology solutions provider.
The deal is worth around USD 106.5 million.
Google spoke about this acquisition: “Today video is [...]
Yahoo: Bing has not changed anything
Market analysts believe that Yahoo committed a blunder by not accepting Microsoft’s original acquisition offer.
Microsoft later showed interest in acquiring Yahoo’s search engine operations. Even that deal did not materialize.
The software giant continued working on their own search engine technology. And they have just launched Bing which is a [...]
Yahoo still open to Microsoft provided the offer is good
Yahoo continues to play games with Microsoft which has already cost the company a lot.
The market value of Yahoo has a company has gone down considerably since they refused the first offer made by Microsoft.
The company is also now under a brand new leadership with [...]
