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mergers and acquisitions

Lighthouse eDiscovery merges with Discovia to form self-described largest electronic discovery company

Lighthouse eDiscovery, a Seattle-based company that provides electronic discovery products to help lawyers quickly sift through mountains of complex documentation, has… Read More

Report: T-Mobile and Sprint merger talks have started up again

Rival wireless companies T-Mobile and Sprint are once again talking about merging. According to a report from Bloomberg, Sprint, as well… Read More

Rover and DogVacay

Rover acquires DogVacay, its biggest competitor in the online dog-sitting marketplace

Rover.com, the Seattle-based leader in the online pet sitting and dog walking marketplace, is taking a big bite out of the… Read More

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Verizon drops Yahoo acquisition price by $350M following data breach disclosures

Verizon said it will pay $4.48 billion to acquire Yahoo’s operating business, a reduction of $350 million off the original… Read More

Craigslist

Report: Verizon near agreement to lower price of Yahoo acquisition, suggesting deal is close

Verizon is reportedly close to cutting the price of its deal to buy Yahoo, signaling that they could complete the acquisition soon.… Read More

More tech companies filed for IPOs in 2016, but overall exits fell globally

Nearly 100 tech companies went public in 2016, despite the number of overall exits going down, according to CB Insights.… Read More

Did Amazon secretly acquire online meeting startup Biba? Newly uncovered filings point to deal

Merger documents uncovered by GeekWire suggest that Amazon last year stealthily acquired Biba, a San Francisco-based company that makes chat, video and… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla Model 3

Feds approve $2.6 billion Tesla-SolarCity merger, but stock market says ‘meh’

The Federal Trade Commission has given its approval for Tesla Motors’ acquisition of the SolarCity power panel company, saying that… Read More

WRQ spinout NetMotion Wireless sells again, this time to private equity powerhouse The Carlyle Group

NetMotion Wireless, a Seattle-based producer of mobile performance management and security software, has been sold to Washington D.C.-based asset management… Read More

Elon Musk and Tesla Model 3

Elon Musk and Tesla make $2.8 billion offer for his other company, SolarCity

Tesla Motors, the electric vehicle and battery company headed by Elon Musk, has made a $2.8 billion bid to acquire… Read More

Bezos-backed Remitly buys moving selfie startup Talio to improve money transfer connections

Remitly, a mobile payments company that helps people send money to the Philippines and India, announced today that it has… Read More

Whitepages reinforces scam-fighting tech with NumberCop acquisition

Seattle-based Whitepages has acquired NumberCop, a service that fights against phone scammers, robo-calls and SMS phishing. The San Francisco-based company’s technology… Read More

Microsoft reportedly eyeing purchase of social news reader Prismatic, along with Apple and Yahoo

Microsoft is interested in expanding its recent acquisition spree by picking up social reader application Prismatic, a social reader application, according to… Read More

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