Acquisitions

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Google Just Bought Zagat, Making It The New King Of Restaurant Ratings

1:37AM September 9, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The official Google blog says it all: the Mountain View tech monster bought Zagat, whose restaurant ratings are used and respected all over the world. Yelp should be worried. More »

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Skype Buying GroupMe Messaging Service

7:58AM August 22, 2011 | Jack Loftus

GroupMe, the messaging service employed by Gizmodo during our harrowing CES 2011 coverage, is being acquired by Skype for an undisclosed amount of money. More »

Computing

HP Buying Software Company Autonomy And Spinning Off PCs

7:00AM August 19, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Whoa: HP, the largest computer company in the world, is rumoured to be buying Autonomy — an enterprise software company — for $US10 billion, and spinning off its PC business as another company. We’ll see what that means soon, probably. [Bloomberg]

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Google’s Biggest Acquisitions So Far, And What They Became

11:00AM August 16, 2011 | Matt Rosoff - Business Insider

Google’s $US12.5 billion purchase of Motorola will be its biggest acquisition ever — more than four times the size of DoubleClick, the previous leader. More »

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Google Will Pay Motorola $US2.5b If Their Marriage Falls Through

9:00AM August 16, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Google and Motorola have a prenup of sorts worked out before the wedding. Well, really more like Google buying Motorola as a sex slave. But still — the former will hand the latter $US2.5 billion if the deal collapses. [BusinessWeek]

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Google Is Buying Motorola

7:15AM August 16, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Crazy news just in — Google is acquiring the handset division of Motorola, Motorola Mobility, for $US12.5 billion. This means Google could soon officially be in the hardware business. More »

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HTC May Acquire A Majority Stake In Beats Electronics

11:36AM August 11, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

HTC may announce Thursday it’s going to spend $US500 million to acquire a 51 per cent stake in Beats Electronics, the company behind Beats By Dr Dre. Beats will operate independently and its audio technology will land in HTC’s handsets. [CNET and AllThingsD]

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This Is Why We’ll Never Have Innovative Ebooks

2:45PM August 3, 2011 | Tim Carmody - Wired

Push Pop Press, an e-publishing startup founded by ex-Apple engineers Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, has announced its acquisition by Facebook. More »

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Apple’s Long And Storied History Of Not Buying Companies

10:18PM July 29, 2011 | Brian Barrett

There was some fluffernut on the internet yesterday, over at BGR, that said Apple may be interested in buying Barnes & Noble. Which they won’t, any more than you’ll buy your neighbour’s Chrysler Sebring. Technologizer saves us with some perspective. More »

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Now It’s Apple; Who Isn’t Interested In Buying Hulu?

10:16AM July 22, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Hulu is now the trollop of the tech world with a long line of suitors wanting to wine and dine it. First it was CBS, then Microsoft and Google. Now Apple wants some quality time with the video service. More »