Articles about M&A – Page 26 of 28

Likewise sells key product lines, switches focus to storage software

Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise… Read More

Sprint CEO Hesse continues fight to block AT&T’s buy of T-Mobile

Dan Hesse once led AT&T Wireless. Now, as CEO of Sprint, he’s trying to block his former employer from buying… Read More

PopCap Games: By the numbers

Word that PopCap Games is in talks to be acquired — perhaps by Electronics Arts — for more than $1… Read More

Allozyne, Poniard to merge

Big news today in Seattle’s biotech industry. Seattle biotechnology upstart Allozyne has entered into a merger agreement with San Francisco’s… Read More

Podcast

Q&A: Meet the 15-year-old who just sold his tech startup

Our guest on the latest GeekWire Podcast was Daniil Kulchenko, the 15-year-old sophomore from Kenmore, north of Seattle, who last week… Read More

Could RIM’s sinking stock value put the company in play with Microsoft?

At a WTIA predictions dinner that I moderated a few years ago, Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain suggested that Microsoft should… Read More

Skype fires high-ranking execs as Microsoft deal moves ahead

Skype has reportedly dismissed a series of top executives — including four vice presidents, and the heads of human resources… Read More

Should you sell your startup? Four unconventional reasons

How do you know when it is the right time to sell your startup company? I’ve been getting that question… Read More

Marchex sells Foodie.com to Glam Media’s Samir Arora

Prior to getting into the call advertising business, Marchex was a big acquirer of domain names. But that’s no longer… Read More

CafePress IPO filing offers inside peek at Imagekind buy

I love digging into IPO filings, in part because they shed light on the inner workings of private companies that… Read More

InfoSpace sells Mercantila at a loss, e-commerce business no longer ‘fits’

Just 13 months ago, InfoSpace gobbled up the assets of Mercantila for $8 million in cash and the assumption of… Read More

Fortune: Microsoft should buy Netflix and make Reed Hastings co-CEO with Ballmer

There’s been plenty of chatter in recent weeks about why Steve Ballmer should be replaced as CEO. He missed mobile.… Read More

Microsoft buys Prodiance to bring more security to spreadsheets

Venture capitalists expressed hope that Microsoft would pick up the M&A pace following its planned $8.5 billion buy of Skype.… Read More

Mike Koss sells Faves.com, investors take ‘big loss’

Faves.com is getting a second (actually, maybe even a third or fourth) chance. But the Seattle online social bookmarking service… Read More

Drugstore.com CEO Dawn Lepore to depart following Walgreens buy

Walgreen Co. has completed its $409 million purchase of drugstore.com, the Bellevue online seller of medicine, vitamins and beauty products.… Read More

Skype, Sparkbuy, Steve Ballmer at USC and other top stories for May

At a Belltown coffee shop yesterday, I spotted a guy at a nearby table reading GeekWire. I got a bit… Read More

Tippr buys DealPop social buying site from WhitePages

Tippr, the group buying technology company, has acquired the social buying website DealPop from WhitePages. The deal was was announced… Read More

Microsoft takes heat after Skype outage enrages users

Microsoft doesn’t even own Skype yet, but it is already taking blame for an outage that impacted some users of… Read More

Who will Microsoft buy next: LinkedIn, Citrix, BlueKai or the maker of Angry Birds?

Microsoft made a big bet earlier this month when it gobbled up Skype for $8.5 billion, a move that got… Read More

Buster Benson sells popular iPhone app, focuses efforts on new social game

Seattle developer Buster Benson has sold Locavore — a popular mobile application that assists people in their quest to find… Read More

Google buys Sparkbuy, a search engine for consumer electronics

Well, that sure was quick. Sparkbuy, the Seattle upstart led by entrepreneur Dan Shapiro, announced today that it has been… Read More

Microsoft vets (and brothers) sell startup OffiSync to Jive

Business collaboration company Jive Software of Palo Alto is buying OffiSync, a Seattle-based startup known for a plug-in that adds… Read More

Yahoo buys Jim Heckman’s online ad startup 5to1.com

5to1.com, an online advertising startup led by Seattle entrepreneur and former Fox Interactive media exec Jim Heckman, has been acquired… Read More

Old relationships pay off: Divergent sees big return on $327M Pliant buy

Divergent Ventures, a small Seattle venture capital firm, saw a big payoff today when Milipitas, California data storage drive company… Read More

‘Google creeps me out,’ and other comments of the week

Our stories this past week about Western Washington University’s proposal to cut its computer science department sparked one of the… Read More

Why did Wizard Parent (aka Attachmate) just raise $377M?

Attachmate is one of Seattle’s oldest software companies, with a history stretching back to the early 1980s. But did you… Read More

Venture capitalists upbeat about Microsoft’s massive $8.5 billion buyout of Skype

Microsoft has been fairly quiet on the M&A front over the past 18 months, a fact that has not been… Read More

Confirmed: Qik will become part of Microsoft, too

Hey, for $8.5 billion, you’d expect a little extra as part of a deal, and it turns out that Microsoft’s… Read More

Poll: Is Microsoft’s Skype acquisition a smart move?

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion buyout of Skype marks the largest acquisition in the company’s history. But is it really a smart… Read More

Microsoft banking on Skype brand, user base to justify gigantic deal

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion agreement to acquire Skype, the largest deal in the Redmond company’s history, will create the smallest major… Read More