Articles about M&A – Page 17 of 28

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse to Clearwire execs: Dish deal is not a ‘viable alternative’

Well, the rhetoric keeps rising as Sprint and Dish Network battle for Clearwire, the Bellevue-based provider of mobile broadband service.… Read More

Automating the acquihire: ExitRound plays matchmaker for startups with nowhere else to turn

It’s the hard truth of startups. Most new companies never make it. Jacob Mullins has seen this reality play out… Read More

Dish boosts offer for Clearwire to $4.40 per share as bidding war with Sprint escalates ahead of Friday vote

The bidding war continues. Dish Network has boosted its offer for Bellevue-based Clearwire, just two days before shareholders were set to… Read More

Firm urges Clearwire investors to vote no on Sprint deal; board calls decision ‘superficial’

The ongoing saga of Clearwire has taken yet another turn as the independent shareholder firm Glass Lewis & Co. has… Read More

Large shareholder claims Clearwire has ‘stacked the deck’ in favor of Sprint deal

Clearwire Chairman John Stanton is back again today urging shareholders to vote for Sprint’s $3.40 per share offer, a deal… Read More

Microsoft emerges as Waze investor, as Google and Facebook weigh $1B bids

Bloomberg News says this morning that Google may try to acquire Waze, the traffic and mapping technology company that Facebook… Read More

Medical device maker Ekos acquired in $180M deal

Ekos, a Bothell medical device maker whose catheter-based ultrasound devices are used to break up blood clots in legs, has… Read More

Chart: The top 10 biggest private tech buyouts (and where Tumblr ranks)

In the wake of Yahoo’s blockbuster $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr, Bloomberg News has produced a pretty nifty chart of… Read More

SEO guru Vanessa Fox sells search analytics startup Nine by Blue to RKG

Seattle entrepreneur Vanessa Fox has been bootstrapping her search analytics business, Nine by Blue, for the past six years. Today,… Read More

Sprint boosts offer for Clearwire to $3.40 per share, delays shareholder vote to May 31

Sprint is boosting its bid for Bellevue mobile broadband company Clearwire to $3.40 per share, an increase of about 50… Read More

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on $1.1 billion Tumblr deal: ‘We promise not to screw it up’

Well, this kind of says something. In her first public remarks about the blockbuster $1.1 billion cash purchase of Tumblr, Yahoo… Read More

Report: Yahoo buying blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Yahoo is reportedly buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, a deal that was first reported by All Things D.… Read More

Report: Facebook and Microsoft eyeing Tumblr as Yahoo sets Monday press event

Where is Tumblr going to end up? Reports have been circulating that the New York-based microblogging and social networking powerhouse… Read More

E-signature powerhouse DocuSign buys Cartavi to help real estate pros share docs

After working together for more than a year, DocuSign has agreed to purchase its partner, Cartavi, in a deal of undisclosed… Read More

Facing serious ‘funding gap,’ Clearwire urges shareholders to vote for Sprint deal on May 21

Bellevue-based Clearwire is running out of options, and its best opportunity to receive any value for the company is Sprint’s… Read More

Salesforce.com buys Clipboard, in exit for ex-Microsoft researcher: Service to shut down June 30

Salesforce.com has purchased Clipboard, the Seattle startup led by former Microsoft researcher Gary Flake which drew comparisons to Pinterest. It… Read More

Q&A with Trulia CEO Pete Flint: Market Leader is ‘the operating system’ of real estate

Trulia CEO Pete Flint wants to transform real estate. And with today’s $355 million bid for Kirkland-based Market Leader, the Internet executive… Read More

Trulia to buy Market Leader for $355 million, planting stake in Zillow’s backyard

Trulia is making its biggest bet yet. And it is doing so in Zillow’s backyard. Today, Trulia announced a plan to… Read More

All Property Management makes a buy, inks deal for Rental Property Reporter

Zillow has been gobbling up companies with a ferocious appetite in the past few months. But today we’re telling you… Read More

Memo: Clearwire board urges shareholders to accept Sprint deal

It’s been a long and winding road for Clearwire, the Bellevue mobile broadband company which has been weighing competing offers… Read More

T-Mobile completes MetroPCS buy, begins trading on NYSE

T-Mobile is on Wall Street today, celebrating its merger with MetroPCS and ringing the bell on The New York Stock… Read More

Custom photo book creator RPI buys digital print shop DPI

This is a match made in acronym heaven. RPI is buying DPI. Seattle-based RPI, which makes on-demand photo books and… Read More

Sprint gets waiver from Softbank to weigh Dish’s $25.5B bid

Two weeks after Dish Network jumped into the bidding for Sprint with a $25.5 billion offer, the wireless carrier has… Read More

Deal site Tippr bought by nCrowd

Updated at 7:40 a.m. with comments from Tippr CEO Martin Tobias. Tippr, the heavily-funded Seattle daily deals platform, has been… Read More

GreenCupboards buys assets of Ecomom after founder’s suicide

GreenCupboards, a Spokane startup led by 27-year-old entrepreneur Josh Neblett, has changed its name to Etailz and acquired the assets… Read More

Startup valuations rise even as VCs don’t get as many exits

Valuations at startup companies continue to increase, even though venture capitalists aren’t cashing out on deals as frequently as they’d… Read More

Report: Amazon.com buys Evi, the voice recognition app that rivals Apple’s Siri

Well, this could get really interesting. TechCrunch is reporting today, citing unidentified sources, that Amazon.com paid $26 million last year to… Read More

Memo: Dish Network offers $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel

The wireless business continues to go through some wild transformations, and the latest example happened Monday morning as Dish Network… Read More

T-Mobile adds 579,000 subscribers in Q1, reportedly weighs new deal for MetroPCS

T-Mobile is starting to show some momentum as it gets ready to unveil the iPhone on April 12 and roll… Read More

Rosetta Stone cracks Livemocha, buys language community for $8.5 million

Seattle online language community Livemocha has been acquired by Rosetta Stone for $8.5 million in cash. The deal is hardly… Read More