Articles about M&A – Page 6 of 28

Former Wave Broadband execs scoop up Northwest operations of ex-rival Frontier for $1.35B

WaveDivision Capital, an investment company operated by the founder of Wave Broadband and several former executives, has teamed up with… Read More

LinkedIn acquires Drawbridge to bolster its marketing and advertising offerings

LinkedIn has acquired Drawbridge, a well-funded San Francisco-area startup that uses artificial intelligence to learn more about customers and target… Read More

Streem acquires U.K. computer vision startup Selerio to bring ‘smart AR’ to phone cameras

Streem, a Portland-based company that aims to use augmented reality to help people and companies communicate better, has acquired a… Read More

Smartsheet scoops up Seattle resource management startup 10,000ft, its 3rd acquisition

Work collaboration software company Smartsheet acquired 10,000ft, a Seattle startup that helps companies plan and manage how they use their… Read More

Ahead of Zoom’s IPO, new report says Microsoft repeatedly tried to acquire video conferencing company

Video conferencing company Zoom is set to go public this week, but its future could have been a lot different,… Read More

Amazon acquires Canvas Technology to bolster warehouse robotics capabilities

Amazon has acquired Canvas Technology, a Boulder, Colo., robotics company that powers autonomous vehicles in industrial settings. Amazon for years… Read More

Home improvement marketplace Porch makes another acquisition as headcount hits 500

Porch is making another acquisition, its second after the home improvement startup came out of a self-imposed quiet period almost… Read More

F5 Networks paying $670M to acquire NGINX, a web server that runs a big chunk of the internet

F5 Networks says it is acquiring NGINX, one of the most popular web servers on the internet today, for $670… Read More

Pop culture toy maker Funko expands into board games with acquisition of Seattle studio

Funko, the maker of the popular Pop! figurines and other pop culture items, has acquired Seattle board game studio Forrest-Pruzan… Read More

Will Amazon buy Etsy, Kohl’s, or the Seahawks? GeekWire predicts the tech giant’s next big deals

Amazon’s M&A team has gotten off to a busy start in 2019. This week’s announcement that the tech giant plans… Read More

Amazon acquiring mesh WiFi startup eero, doubling down on smart home

Amazon says it will acquire eero, the San Francisco-based maker of mesh home WiFi routers. The deal strengthens Amazon in… Read More

Microsoft acquires DataSense data analytics platform for schools from edtech company BrightBytes

Microsoft is acquiring the DataSense data analytics platform from San Francisco-based education tech company BrightBytes, aiming to bring data analytics… Read More

New filing: Amazon spent $1.65B on acquisitions in 2018, headlined by Ring and PillPack deals

Amazon spent $1.65 billion on acquisitions in 2018, according to a new regulatory filing from the company. That makes it… Read More

Q&A: The bootstrapping CEO of Killer Infographics on celebrating mistakes and why she sold her firm

When Killer Infographics began exploring a sale of the company last year, the Seattle-based visual communication agency got creative —… Read More

Dropbox acquires HelloSign for $230M, putting it in e-signature competition with DocuSign and Adobe

Dropbox is jumping into the e-signature market with a major acquisition. Dropbox said Monday it is acquiring HelloSign, a document… Read More

Avalara expands to alcoholic beverage compliance with the acquisition of Compli

Avalara has acquired the “operational assets” of Compli, a California-based company that helps makers of alcoholic beverages comply with government… Read More

Akamai snaps up Portland-based identity management provider Janrain

Proving your identity on the internet is harder than it sounds, and Akamai plans to use technology from Portland’s Janrain… Read More

Microsoft acquires FSLogix to bolster virtual desktop capabilities in Office 365

Microsoft has acquired FSLogix, an Atlanta-based company that cuts down on the effort of setting up virtual desktops for large… Read More

Microsoft acquires bot studio XOXCO to boost conversational AI offerings

Microsoft has acquired XOXCO, an Austin-based company that builds bots and conversational artificial intelligence tools, the latest in a series… Read More

Vista Equity Partners to pay $1.9 billion in private-equity deal for Apptio

Apptio’s run as a public company is coming to an end after just over two years. Private equity firm Vista… Read More

SAP snaps up Qualtrics for $8B days before its expected IPO, will keep Seattle office

After months of discussions between the two companies, SAP announced Sunday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire user experience… Read More

Real estate startup Cozy sells to CoStar for $68M

Cozy, a Portland startup that helps more than 50,000 landlords screen potential tenants, market properties and easily collect rent, has… Read More

CopperTree Analytics acquires BuildPulse, a competing building energy management startup

Surrey, B.C.-based CopperTree Analytics has acquired Seattle-based startup BuildPulse in a deal that brings together two building energy management competitors.… Read More

VMware acquires Seattle’s Heptio to double down on Kubernetes

VMware’s ongoing transition into the cloud era took a big step Tuesday with the acquisition of Heptio, a startup that… Read More

T-Mobile gets shareholder sign off on pending merger with Sprint

T-Mobile has cleared another hurdle in its pursuit of merging with Sprint to create the “New T-Mobile.” The self-proclaimed Un-carrier… Read More

Rover acquires U.K.-based dog care company DogBuddy, accelerating its European expansion

Pet-sitting powerhouse Rover has made an acquisition that will help the Seattle company build on its European expansion, first disclosed earlier… Read More

Microsoft’s fiscal 2019 already ranks among its biggest years for acquisition spending

Just four months into Microsoft’s fiscal year, the company has spent more on acquisitions than it has in many entire… Read More

Expedia acquires 2 startups that make it easier to list apartments on HomeAway

Expedia Group acquired a pair of companies that make it easier to list apartments on short-term rental sites like Airbnb… Read More

Seattle’s Versive acquired by eSentire for its AI-powered security analysis platform

After several twists and turns along the way during its six years working on artificial intelligence technology, Versive has been… Read More

European regulators sign off on Microsoft’s $7.5B acquisition of GitHub

Microsoft’s deal to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion cleared a major regulatory hurdle Friday. The European Commission, the regulatory arm of… Read More