Microsoft buying Skype? Yep, it would make a lot of sense The Wall Street Journal just added some major fuel to the rumors about Microsoft and Skype, reporting that the Redmond… Read More
Skype + Microsoft? Why a deal could make sense … for Skype Microsoft’s name emerged this weekend as a potential suitor of Skype, following a report last week that Facebook and Google… Read More
All yours, AT&T: T-Mobile profits, customers declining amid ‘ongoing challenges’ It’s a good thing AT&T is so interested in adding network capacity through its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, because… Read More
Software maker Geospiza acquired by PerkinElmer Geospiza, a Seattle maker of gene analysis software, has been acquired by PerkinElmer in a deal of undisclosed size. The… Read More
Profitable digital media agency Smashing Ideas finds a buyer in Bertelsmann Smashing Ideas, a 15-year-old Seattle digital media agency, has been acquired by Bertelsmann AG’s Random House unit for an undisclosed… Read More
CityGrid Media buys social media monitoring service BuzzLabs The consolidation continues in the social media monitoring space. And now one of Seattle’s upstarts is benefiting. BuzzLabs, a 2-year-old… Read More
Attachmate: Proud owner of a 20-year-old Microsoft antitrust dispute? A federal appeals court yesterday kept alive a 2004 antitrust lawsuit in which Novell accused Microsoft of anti-competitive tactics dating… Read More
Back in the M&A game, Getty Images makes another buy Throughout its 16-year history, Getty Images has been an acquisitive company. In fact, part of the reason why Getty calls… Read More
PopCap pushes deeper into Facebook games, buys ZipZapPlay PopCap Games is bolstering its position in social gaming, a move that comes as the Seattle game maker contemplates an… Read More
Whoops: T-Mobile overestimates potential severance for ‘large number’ of employees Somebody at T-Mobile USA is having a not very good day. Actually, make that lots of somebodies. Employees at the… Read More
InfoSpace boosts profits, names Bill Ruckelshaus CEO InfoSpace has had more lives than a cat. But the Bellevue Internet search company appears to be reinventing itself pretty… Read More
Scrubly looks to clean up ‘messy’ contact lists and address books Bob Thordarson manually tried to update his online contacts list on several occasions, but each time the Seattle entrepreneur seemed… Read More
Is the new tech bubble just R&D 2.0? Guest Commentary: We’re very clearly in a new tech bubble now. Valuations, funding rounds, recruitment incentives are already remarkably similar… Read More
Jeff Bezos-backed Social Gaming Network sells out to Chris DeWolfe’s new gig, MindJolt Chris DeWolfe, the University of Washington grad who went on to co-found MySpace, continues to reinvent himself as an online… Read More
Groupon gobbles up Pelago, but plans to unplug its mobile check-in app Whrrl Groupon is pushing deeper into the mobile world today, gobbling up Seattle startup Pelago for an undisclosed price. Tricia Duryee… Read More
Concur continues online travel expansion, invests $40 million in India’s equivalent of Kayak Concur Technologies has been on a bit of a buying binge lately, gobbling up mobile travel planning service TripIt and… Read More
Zillow.com makes its first buy: Online listing service Postlets Zillow.com has pretty much grown on its own since Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink founded the company in 2005, preferring… Read More
Marchex increases bet on the phone call, agrees to buy Jingle Networks for $62.5M About a year ago, Marchex placed a big bet on call advertising. And now the Seattle company is doubling down… Read More
U.S. lets Google’s ITA deal fly, with some baggage The U.S. Justice Department and Google have reached a deal clearing the way for the search giant’s $700 million acquisition… Read More
Expedia to split into two companies, separating out TripAdvisor Expedia announced today that it plans to separate into two publicly-traded companies, one which will operate the more traditional online… Read More
Nuance unplugs Jott: Voice-to-text service to end May 3rd You won’t be able to Jott anymore. The mobile service, which allowed users to convert voice messages to text, will… Read More
Good news, bad news: M&A activity slows, but momentum grows for IPOs IPOs are on the way up, but M&A deals are coming down. That’ the portrait in a new report released… Read More
Casual game maker PassionFruit sold to marketing agency PassionFruit Games, a maker of casual video games for women, has been acquired by Rally Marketing Group in a deal… Read More
Salesforce.com buys Radian6 for $326 million: So, where’s Visible? Salesforce.com today announced plans to pay as much as $326 million for Radian6, a Canadian upstart whose tools help monitor… Read More
Confirmed: Cheezburger buys Know Your Meme, corners market on Internet culture Fresh off its whopping $30 million venture capital round, Cheezburger Network is adding more special sauce to its growing empire… Read More
Google: More M&A deals are coming Maybe Google feels like it has $6 billion burning a hole in its pocket. A few months after Groupon turned… Read More
Private equity firm merges Radiant Imaging and Zemax Seattle private equity firm Evergreen Pacific Partners is using some of its financial muscle to merge Radiant Imaging and Zemax… Read More
Report: Is Comcast looking to sell thePlatform? [See update below] The Platform, an online video management company which has been owned by Comcast for the past five… Read More
Say hello to your new mobile overlord: Implications of AT&T’s T-Mobile hookup AT&T’s proposed $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile USA would create a U.S. wireless colossus, with 130 million wireless subscribers —… Read More
AT&T’s T-Mobile bid? There’s a (Verizon) map for that Tracking huge corporate acquisitions can feel at times like stepping into the Twilight Zone, and it looks like AT&T’s $39… Read More
