Articles about M&A – Page 25 of 28

F5 names Skype CFO to board, buys IP assets of Crescendo Networks

F5 Networks has appointed Skype Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Chadwick to its board of directors and announced the purchase of… Read More

Google’s $12.5 billion Motorola deal shakes up mobile world

Google delivered a shocker to start the week, announcing plans this morning to acquire mobile phone company Motorola Mobility — a… Read More

It’s official: Electronic Arts completes PopCap buyout

One of the largest technology acquisitions in the Seattle area is now in the books. On Friday, Electronic Arts completed… Read More

California casts wary eye on AT&T’s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile

California is taking a close look at AT&T’s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile, with Bloomberg News reporting that the state’s… Read More

Mobile phone back-up service Dashwire sells to HTC for $18.5M

This is giving new meaning to the term “daily deal.” In a continued flurry of activity in the M&A market,… Read More

Mobile marketing firm Hipcricket sells to Augme for $44.5 million

The M&A market continues to heat up, and today saw another Seattle area technology company taken out. Hipcricket, which helps… Read More

Market Leader makes a buy, gobbles up SharperAgent

Market Leader today announced the purchase of SharperAgent, a Denver company that helps real estate agents roll out print and… Read More

Seattle’s AdXpose sells out to comScore for $22 million

Seattle startup AdXpose, which has had more lives than a cat since it was founded in 2005, is getting ready… Read More

Morning Radar: Amazon employees told to avoid ‘bad states’ and more

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating story on Amazon.com’s ongoing sales tax battle, including the uncovering of a document… Read More

Sony takes a big swing, buys game maker Sucker Punch

It probably doesn’t come with a price tag in the billions. But another Seattle area gaming studio has been sold.… Read More

Liberty Dialysis to sell for $1.7B

Liberty Dialysis Holdings, a Mercer Island company that operates 260 dialysis clinics across the country, has entered into an agreement… Read More

Photo sharing service Smilebox sells for up to $40 million

Smilebox, the six-year-old Redmond company that lets users create electronic greetings with their photos and videos, has agreed to be… Read More

Microsoft spends a mere $75M on acquisitions in fiscal 2011

Microsoft’s 2011 fiscal year, which ended in June, was one of its lightest on record for acquisitions. The company, which… Read More

Traffic tech company Inrix bids $60M for European rival

That didn’t take long. A few days after landing $37 million in venture capital financing, saying it planned to use… Read More

No joke: Senator Al Franken says AT&T’s proposed buyout of T-Mobile will hurt consumers

AT&T’s proposed buyout of T-Mobile for $39 billion has run into a number of opponents, including Sprint CEO Dan Hesse… Read More

Hivemyne buys dot-com survivor AskMe

AskMe has certainly been around the startup block in Seattle. Formed in 1999 by former Microsoft employees, the company barely… Read More

Corbis Images buys celebrity photo service Splash News

Corbis Images is bolstering its portfolio of photography of Angelina Jolie, Leanardo DiCaprio and other celebs. The Seattle company, owned… Read More

Microsoft drops out of the Hulu bidding, opening door for Amazon?

Microsoft has reportedly dropped out of the bidding for Hulu, the popular online video service owned by Fox, Disney, NBC… Read More

Dave Roberts just sold PopCap for $1.3 billion, so why does he hate the casual games biz

You’d think that Dave Roberts would be all smiles when it comes to the prospects of the casual gaming business.… Read More

Winshuttle buys ShareVis to help non-techies tap into business apps

One of the hidden success stories of the Seattle software community is Winshuttle, which has quietly grown into a powerful… Read More

DocuSign faces new threat as Adobe inks deal to buy EchoSign

DocuSign is facing a new competitive challenge today as one of the company’s biggest rivals, EchoSign, was just gobbled up… Read More

List: How EA’s buyout of PopCap ranks

Electronic Arts’ buyout of PopCap Games is a whopper by most standards. But just how big is it in relation… Read More

Boston and Seattle mobile analytics startups merge, choose New York for HQ

Seattle-based Ground Truth has merged with Boston-based Umber Systems to create a new company called Mobile Intelligence Solutions that will… Read More

Report: PopCap turned down $1B buyout offer from Zynga

PopCap Games must be pretty confident in its ability to post strong financial results over the next couple years. Either… Read More

Meet the venture capitalist who just made a bundle on PopCap’s sale to EA

PopCap Games never really operated by the book. The Seattle game maker eschewed venture capital financing throughout much its history,… Read More

Image: PopCap’s zombie greeting to the new bosses at EA

It’s a good thing to know that the folks over at PopCap haven’t lost their sense of humor– even though… Read More

EA buying PopCap Games for up to $1.3 billion (Updated)

[Updated at 3 p.m.] The rumors were true: Seattle-based PopCap Games, maker of games such as Bejeweled, Plants vs. Zombies… Read More

Citrix buys Cloud.com, challenges Amazon and Microsoft’s Azure

Citrix Systems announced today that it is acquiring Cloud.com, raising the competitive bar on other cloud infrastructure services such as… Read More

Heavily-funded social networking upstart Lockerz buys AddToAny

Fresh off its $30 million venture capital round, Seattle-based Lockerz has purchased AddToAny for an undisclosed amount. AddToAny, whose free… Read More

Amazon buys Book Depository, UK’s top indie online bookseller

Amazon.com this morning announced a deal to buy The Book Depository online bookseller, based in the UK. Although the companies… Read More