HOPKINTON, Mass., and SEATTLE, Wash. – Feb. 21, 2008 – EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Seattle-based Pi Corporation, a privately-held developer of software and provider of services for personal information management. With approximately 100 engineers located in the U.S., Canada and […]

Round Rock, Texas, February 12, 2008 - Dell has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MessageOne, Inc., an industry leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enabled enterprise-class e-mail business continuity, compliance, archiving and disaster recovery services. The acquisition, for approximately $155 million in cash, has been approved by the board of directors of each company and is […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb 12, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has acquired Maven Networks, Inc., a leading online video platform provider, to expand state-of-the-art consumer video and advertising experiences on Yahoo!.com and Yahoo!’s network of leading premium video publishers across the web. […]

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 11, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Danger Inc., the company responsible for the software and services powering many popular consumer handsets. The acquisition will align Danger’s nearly 10 years of expertise in the mobile consumer space with Microsoft’s vision to provide innovative […]

New York, NY – Feb 5, 2008 – AOL announced today that it has acquired buy.at, a leading independent affiliate network that provides a platform for performance-based e-commerce marketing programs to advertisers and publishers. buy.at will operate as a wholly-owned business unit of Advertising.com, part of AOL’s Platform-A organization.
“This acquisition further enhances our Platform-A […]

New York, NY, February 4, 2008 – AOL today announced that it has acquired Goowy Media, Inc., a widget development and analytics tools company based in San Diego, Calif. Goowy will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL as part of the company’s Products division.
Founded in 2004, Goowy offers a technology platform and […]

Wow… if this deal goes through… What’s it like to live in a world of Google vs. Windows Live/Yahoo? How would the combined company merge redundent services, like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail? Or Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger? How would the online world evolve if this deal happens? Hmmm……
Yahoo’s […]

SEATTLE & NEWARK, N.J., Jan 31, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Audible Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBL).
Audible.com is the leading online provider of premium digital spoken word audio content, specializing in digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, television and radio programs and original programming. […]