Google today announced that it has acquired cloud monitoring service Stackdriver. The company plans to roll many of the service's features into its Cloud..
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Facebook has acquired the motion tracking app for Android and iPhone 'Moves,' the startup announced today via a blog post. The company's founders say that the..
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Waiting for next company who shows when YOU go to the toilette with that App-Mania!!! 
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Google has agreed to buy Titan Aerospace, a U.S. maker of aerial drones that Facebook had been in talks to acquire. Titan's solar-powered drones are intended to fly for years. Learn more:
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Spotify today announced it has acquired music data platform The Echo Nest, which will continue to operate out of its headquarters in Somerville, Massachuse
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired Facebook is buying WhatsApp, agreeing to pay $19 billion in cash and stock for the popular smartpho
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Yahoo just acquired a San Francisco-based startup called Distill, which was working on a way to make technical recruiting easier by pairing video interviews..
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Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable, gearing up to announce its earnings any minute now, also has some other news: the company has acquired Ness.. Restaurant reservation platform OpenTabletoday reported quarterly earnings of $52.3 million and used the day to put out some other news: the company has acquiredNess Computing, makers of the personalized restaurant recommendations app Ness. It’s an all-cash transaction that OpenTable says is worth $17.3 million, although it comes with cash in Ness’s coffers that brings the net value to $11.3 million.
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Impermium, a cybersecurity startup that was backed by top funds like Accel and Greylock, is joining Google. They had raised $9 million in funding from..
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Google’s purchase of smart-thermostat maker Nest makes a lot of sense, and could help it compete against Apple.
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Facebook today acquired NYC-based social startup Branch Media. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but The Verge pegged the deal at $15 million. The 10-person team won't ...
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We shouldn't be surprised that the strongest brand in the world is looking to buy another solid brand. Far beyond the guffaws of audiophiles and tut-tutting.. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence/?tag=acquisitions
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Twitter has acquired Gnip, the social data provider that has long provided access to public Twitter data, and that has deepened its relationship with the.. Gnip offers access to historical Twitter data, and the full Twitter data firehose, but it also offers APIs that provide data from other social networks including Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Bitly and more. Gnip says that working with Twitter as a part of the company will let it “go much faster and much deeper,” and they plan to expand support to include a wider set of potential use cases in different industries.
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Gnip offers access to historical Twitter data, and the full Twitter data firehose, but it also offers APIs that provide data from other social networks including Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Bitly and more. Gnip says that working with Twitter as a part of the company will let it “go much faster and much deeper,” and they plan to expand support to include a wider set of potential use cases in different industries.
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Company looks to defend fragile business model with startup's Google has bought out London-based fraud prevention startup Spider.io in an effort to protect its advertising business model from ad-clicking malware spread by botnets. The news was revealed a blog post detailing Google's efforts to prevent fraudulent ad clicks, a key threat to the web advertising industry. Spider.io has been trading for three years and listed seven staff on its website prior to Google's buyout.
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Facebook announced on Wednesday afternoon that it had reached an agreement to buy popular mobile messaging company WhatsApp for a total of $16 billion, include $4 billion in cash and about $12 billion in Facebook shares. WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users and is adding more than 1 million new registered users per day.
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A few days after Klout unveiled a new content-sharing service to burnish its fading brand, one report says the company is about to sell itself to another social media company, L...
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Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The deal, which was 70 percent stock and 30 percent cash the company said, will be completed during the first quarter of this year.
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Google's acquisition of Nest could be the most important development to ever happen in the nascent field of the Internet of Things. Here's why.
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Google annonce avoir effectué le rachat de la société Nest Labs, spécialisée dans la mise en place de systèmes domotiques.
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