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Ross Levinsohn Departs Guggenheim Digital Media
Well-known Internet exec Ross Levinsohn has left his latest gig as CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media. The former interim CEO of Yahoo, who also was president of News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Group,...
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SolarCity Will Buy Silevo for $350 Million, Build One of the World’s Largest...
Courtesy: SolarCity SolarCity has agreed to acquire solar panel manufacturer Silevo for as much as $350 million in stock in a deal that puts the clean-energy company squarely into the production...
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Path Splits Its Apps and Buys TalkTo for Messaging Businesses
Path is heading in a new direction. It’s the same direction as many other social networking companies: Multiple apps, with one of them dedicated to mobile messaging. Path is a well-funded and...
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New YouTube Video Notifications Will Send Viewers to Twitch
Still no official word on that acquisition reported by Variety last month, but YouTube and Twitch are getting together in a different way. When Twitch broadcasters who also use YouTube turn on a new...
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Google’s Nest Buys Dropcam for $555 Million
Dropcam, the popular home monitoring camera startup, will be acquired by Nest, maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors. The deal is worth $555 million in cash. Nest itself was just purchased by...
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Etsy Nabs France’s A Little Market, Its Largest Acquisition to Date
Etsy said Monday it had acquired A Little Market, a marketplace for handmade goods in France. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the Brooklyn-based site said it was the largest of its six...
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Google Acquires Songza, Maker of Curated Playlists
Re/code Google has purchased Songza, the four-year-old music app that sets up human-curated playlists based on moods and activities. The New York Post reported earlier this month the deal could be...
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Care.com Scoops Up Kid-Centric Subscription Service Citrus Lane for More Than...
Care.com Childcare marketplace service Care.com said Thursday that it had acquired Citrus Lane, an e-commerce subscription service that provides products to families with kids. Care.com is paying $31...
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Forbes Sells to Hong Kong Investment Group
Forbes.com Forbes Media, which has been on the market for about a year, has found a buyer: Hong Kong-based Integrated Whale Media Investments has bought a majority stake in the company. People...
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How to Know if You Have Startup Equity
catosdomain.com As startup acquisitions and IPOs become more high-profile and high-dollar, the promise of startup equity is spreading like a gold rush across the country, from Silicon Beach to Silicon...
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Not-So-Smartphone: Microsoft Misses on Earnings Due to, Yep, Nokia
Microsoft turned in a pretty decent fourth quarter, with revenue of $23.4 billion, handily beating analyst estimates of $23 billion. But it missed on earnings per share — 55 cents, which was below the...
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There Have Been No Google-Spotify Acquisition Talks
When last we checked in, The Wall Street Journal was surmising, based on a public cocktail between AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in Sun Valley, that a merger could possibly be...
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Chernin and AT&T Set to Buy Control of Fullscreen YouTube Network
Fullscreen Fullscreen, the YouTube network that has been talking to prospective buyers for months, is ready to make a deal. Sources familiar with the company say it is finalizing a deal to sell a...
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Apple to Buy Radio App Swell for $30 Million
Apple is close to buying the Pandora-for-talk-radio app Swell, according to multiple sources. The deal is worth about $30 million, these sources say. Swell had raised $7.2 million from investors...
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Apple’s $3 Billion Beats Deal Clears European Union’s Antitrust Review
Apple Inc.’s planned $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music cleared a regulatory hurdle: The European Union approved the merger, finding that the combination did not raise...
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WalmartLabs “Acqhire” Gives Social Shopping App Luvocracy a Soft Landing
l @WalmartLabs, the tech arm of Walmart’s e-commerce operations, has agreed to acquire social shopping site Luvocracy. The terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, but it is essentially a soft...
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Twitter Joins the Deep Learning Party
Twitter has acquired MadBits, a New York startup using “deep learning” to help computers “understand” images. Facebook and Google have also shown interest in this promising approach to artificial...
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Apple Deal Means 200 Beats Workers Will Need New Jobs
Apple, which is finishing up its $3 billion deal to buy Beats, has told some of its new hires that they won’t have their jobs for long. People familiar with the two companies say that about 200 of...
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Oracle Nabs Cloud Software Company TOA
drserg/Shutterstock Business software giant Oracle today said it would acquire TOA Technologies, a privately held cloud software company that specializes in handling the dispatching of field service...
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How T-Mobile’s Odyssey Could Still End in a Sprint Deal
Cliff Notes With T-Mobile adding customers and suddenly becoming the target of a surprise buyout offer, it’s easy to think the company might not need Sprint after all. But the truth is that few...
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