Posts Tagged with ‘aquisition’

Microsoft just announced that they will try to acquire Fast Search & Transfer, which is a Norwegian enterprise search solution. The deal is reportedly in excess of $1 billion and is dependent on FS&T shareholder approval. The big three in search, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have been locked in this search battle for some time with Google taking the lion's share of the users.
As many have predicted, Microsoft was destined to make some move to close the gap between [...]

LiveJournal has been around since 1999 as a “standby” of blogging and social networking. Yesterday Six Apart (which owns LJ) agreed to sell the company to SUP a Russian online media company. The complete terms of the deal are not available but SUP will evidently create an American management company to manage the social network's operations. Media company buyouts have been abundant in a sort of “feeding frenzy” for social media traffic and I think we can expect [...]

The latest news in the never ending fencing match between Google and Yahoo! the latest news is that Yahoo! will acquire the remaining 80 percent of RightMedia for $680 million. Yahoo! has taken it on the chin from Google in the online advertising realm lately but Yahoo! seems determined not to be counted out.
With full control of RightMedia Exchange Yahoo! will solidify their long range plans access a larger pool of sellers and advertisers. Google's Double Click buyout was a real [...]