MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Software developer Intuit Inc. said Monday it will buy Homestead Technologies Inc., a privately held maker of Web site development software, in a deal it valued at $170 million.
Intuit, which makes Quicken, TurboTax and small business accounting software QuickBooks, said the deal will add Web site creation and e-commerce software […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — November 16, 2007 –AMD announced today that it has received an investment from a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, a strategic investment and development company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mubadala invested approximately $622 million, receiving 49 million newly-issued shares at a price per […]

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 12, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has entered into an exclusivity agreement around its intention to acquire Musiwave SA, an Openwave company and a leading provider of mobile music entertainment services to operators and media companies. The acquisition would bring Musiwave’s relationships with music labels, device makers and mobile […]

ARMONK, N.Y. & OTTAWA, Ontario - 12 Nov 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cognos® (NASDAQ: COGN) (TSX: CSN) today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Cognos, a publicly-held company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $5 billion USD […]

NEW YORK, NY and Tel Aviv, Israel, November 12, 2007 - AOL announced today that it has acquired Yedda, Inc., a leading semantic social search Questions and Answer service. Yedda will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL.
Founded in 2006, Yedda employs patent-pending technology that automatically matches questions to other related questions […]

NEW YORK, NY and DULLES, VA - November 7, 2007 - AOL today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Quigo, a leading site and content- targeted advertising company based in New York. When completed, the acquisition will let AOL offer contextual advertising that matches ads to the contents of a Web […]

2007

Agile
May—The combination of Oracle and Agile will create a best-in-class, integrated enterprise-wide PLM solution.
AppForge
April—Oracle’s acquisition of the intellectual property assets of AppForge extends Oracle’s mobile applications product strategy.
Bharosa
July—The combination of Oracle and Bharosa will deliver the next generation of adaptive, risk-based access management.
Bridgestream
September—The addition of Bridgestream extends Oracle’s Identity Management Suite with automated enterprise role […]

2007

January, 2007 – MyBlogLog
April 30, 2007 – Right Media (80% = $680 Million)
June 20, 2007 – Rivals.com
September 4, 2007 – BlueLithium for $300 million in cash
September 14, 2007 – BuzzTracker
September 17, 2007 – Zimbra for $350 million in cash

2006

January, 2006 – SearchFox, WebJay
April, 2006 – Meedio
June, 2006 – Gmarket (10% stake)
September, 2006 – Jumpcut.com
October, 2006 […]

2007

January, 2007 - Xunlei (partial acquisition) Network, file-sharing - undisclosed
February, 2007 - Adscape Video game advertising - $23 million
March, 2007 - Trendalyzer Software - undisclosed
April, 2007 - Tonic Systems Presentation software - undisclosed
April, 2007 - Marratech video conferencing software Video conferencing - undisclosed
April 13, 2007 - DoubleClick Online Advertising - $3.1 billion
May 11, 2007 - […]

This list does not include the investment in Facebook.com that Microsoft made earlier this year.

aQuantive, Inc, Seattle, USA - May 2007 - Global digital marketing and advertising solutions. Microsoft’s largest acquisition in history so far, valued at $6 billion
Tellme Networks, Inc., California, USA - March 2007 - Voice services, Estm. $800 million
Rare Ltd., United Kingdom […]