flipkart-letsbuy-01

Flipkart To Buy LetsBuy.com: A Marriage Of Convenience?

The Indian Digital Review reports that Flipkart is going to buy LetsBuy.com. The actual announcement will be made in a few days. This is exciting news for the e-commerce space in India.   LetsBuy.com...
0 comment
reliance4551

Just 1.14% Stake In DEN Creates Media Buzz: What’s Reliance Upto?

Reliance Strategic Investments, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has picked up 1.14% stake in DEN Networks. DEN is one of the two leading & listed content aggregation and distribution companies...
0 comment
motorola_g

Motorola’s Last Balance Sheet In Red While Google Waits Calmly: Golden Opportunity?

Motorola Mobility’s supposedly last Quarterly Results before it is amalgamated in the Search Giant Google are in Red. Motorola, true to it’s word about a bleak last quarter posted a operating loss...
0 comment
yatrabuzztown

Yatra Acquires Buzzintown.com: What Could Be Yatra’s Strategy?

Yatra.com, an online Travel Services providers has just acquired Buzzintown, a website that provides information on deals and events. Earlier this year, Yatra had secured over 150 Crores & 200 Crores...
0 comment
GOOGLE

Google Buys Itself Late Christmas Present: 200 Patents From IBM

The year 2011 saw many legal tussles in the Electronics industry. Most of them were between Apple on one side and Google and its hardware partners for Android devices on the other. Samsung and Apple are...
0 comment

Yahoo Ponders Over Reducing It’s 40% Stake In Alibaba

Internet giant Yahoo is considering selling a part of its stake in Alibaba, recent reports say. The recently troubled company has a 40% stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and is mulling over the prospect...
0 comment
angel investor

Fetise.com Gets Rs. 25 Cr Seedfund Investment Through ET TV Show

Talk about unconventional ways to raise money for your venture: how about through a Television Show? ET Now’s TV Show Super Angels, about which we had reported earlier, enabled start-up Fetise.com to...
0 comment
ma

MobileWave Buys B2C Firm Ariose Software For $1.2 Million

South African mobile marketing company MobileWave Group plc is set to acquire Ariose Software Pvt Ltd (Noida based mobile app developer company). The deal, currently valued at US$ 1.2 Million will see...
0 comment
Twitter

Tweetdeck Investment Coming Into Play In Twitter’s Newest Redesign: Should Facebook Be Scared?

Twitter, Facebook, Google + are arguably the 3 largest Social Networks. Twitter has seen a meteoric growth in the past few years. One reason for this was the high level of adoption among trend setters...
1 comment
foursquare

Foursquare Soars With 15Million Users: Peaking Too Soon?

Foursquare has grown its userbase almost thrice of what it was last year. It includes users from U.S as well as other parts of the globe. Foursquare announced these numbers blatantly and has proved the...
0 comment
whispersystems-acquired-by-twitter

Twitter Acquires Whisper Systems: Is Twitter Finally Getting Serious About Security?

Twitter is not considered to be the most secure social networking environment by experts. Recently, Chris Soghoian (a privacy researcher) reiterated the fact that Twitter has been lackadaisical in its...
0 comment
micrahoosoft_logo

Microsoft’s Attempts Again To Gobble-Up Yahoo: Signs Non-Disclosure Agreement

Despite losing in its US$44.6 billion attempt to acquire the company in 2008, Microsoft has reportedly signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that will allow it to take a closer look at Yahoo! Inc.’s...
0 comment
katango-google-plus

Google Acquires Katango, Will Power Google+

Google has acquired a small start up called Katango, as we had predicted sometime back. Katango, founded over a year ago, automatically organizes people’s social contacts. It will power the Circles feature...
0 comment
yahoo

Yahoo Buys Interclick To Boost Ad Data

Yahoo Inc has confirmed that it has acquired data management platform Interclick for $270 million. Under the deal, Yahoo is offering Interclick shareholders $9 a share, 22% higher to the stock’s...
0 comment
wat-weekly-wrapup1

WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 23rd – 30th October, 2011

Last week we reported that the man behind creative and innovation of Apple Steve Jobs Biography to be featured on Kindle and iBooks with reports stating that Facebook can surpass Amazon too in its popularity...
0 comment

Google’s Acquisition Spree Crosses $500 Million In 2011

Mountain View based Internet giant is continuing its decade long acquisition spree. A report filed with the US market regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) states that Google INC completed...
0 comment