All Acquisitions that take place in the Web, Advertising and Technology Space

This is the third acquisition completed by OnMobile in the past three years. The earlier two being Voxmobili, a French data products company and ITfinity, another mobile data company. OnMobile Global shares rose by 1.56% to close at 646.55 after acquiring Voxmobili.

Update: Travelguru Founder has denied the story but speculation still exists and now the valuation is being pegged at 75 million $ and acquisition at a higher amount!
 
Earlier Posted:The travel scene has been an overcrowded one and we have been blogging about both the amount of funding and the number of funded players since quite [...]

Aegis Media had recently acquired stakes in SEM Firm Communicate2, which would help Aegis to add search engine marketing capability to its media planning arm Carat in the country and launch Isobar as a digital marketing solution for the Indian market. There have been a lot of speculations regarding the nature of the deal and how Isobar could be used in tendem with Carat. So, WATBlog decided to go ahead and get the inside story from the man himself, Mr. Vivek Bhargava, CEO, Commnicate2.

With the Reliance Communications – MTN deal struggling to take shape, Tata Comm. (formerly VSNL) is all set to get a majority stake in another South African telecom service provider Neotel.
 

Neotel (Pty) Ltd., previously SNO Telecommunications, is the much anticipated second national operator (SNO) for fixed line telecommunication services in South Africa.
 
Tata Communications has [...]

India is very connected on linkedin as alexa statistics would show you that linkedin is ranked as the 144th most popular site in India (which is higher than its global rank of 191) contributing about 6.8% to the overall traffic on linkedin second only to the United States. So I do expect some India specific applications/additions to linked in over time.

Well its time for stake sale again in the digital marketing space. After Quasar sellout and Webchutney stake sale its time for communicate2 the search engine marketing firm lead by Vivek Bharghava (whom we interviewed on WATBlog last year) to sell a piece of equity for strategic reasons.
 

According to the release the Aegis buyout of [...]

Delhi-based Educomp Solutions has acquired a 51 per cent stake in US-based web-delivered curriculum provider, Learning.com for around Rs 105 crore. The deal includes the purchase of existing shares as well as an infusion of new capital into the company. This is Educomp’s second strategic investment after the acquisition of Singapore-based Ask n Learn [...]

Bharti Airtel yesterday said that it is holding discussions with South African telecom company MTN Group that are aimed at “combining the strengths of the two leading emerging markets players and, accordingly, is veering towards possible structures to achieve this objective”, Business Standard reports.
 
The company also made it clear in a statement today that this may [...]

The International social networking scene just refuses to die down. After the astronomical valuation of facebook by Microsoft another social network bebo.com which we had covered earlier here has been bought over by AOL in an all cash deal worth 850 million $.Lets put this deal into perspective with whats happening in the social networking [...]

With click throughs on AdSense possibly dropping, Google is looking to finally acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion as European regulators will most probably dismiss Anti - trust claims filed by Microsoft which has claimed that the deal would hurt competition in the online advertising market. 
 
Microsoft bought DoubleClick rival AQuantive Inc. for $6 billion last year. [...]

Well this one could be one of the biggest take overs in the history of the online space if it actually does happen. Though it has been in the rumours since last year and even we have blogged about the possibility of Microsoft acquiring Yahoo till date there was no official confirmation of the same.
 
But [...]

 
With mergers and acquisitions happening all over the Internet advertising space Microsoft has added one more company to its kitty. It recently picked up 35% stake in Oxigen. Oxigen is India’s e-distribution company that provides users with online bill payment, booking air and railway tickets, recharge, and subscription for various services like internet and so [...]

Sun Microsystems has made a bid to tap into the burgeoning market for providing services to web 2.0 companies like Facebook by buying MySQL, a provider of enterprise software,’ reports Times Online.
Sun will pay $1 billion for MySQL.
What is MySQL?
MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS) which has, according to MySQL AB, [...]

After the HP-Compaq merger and Reebok’s acquisition by Adidas in 2006, a Yahoo takeover by Microsoft is something that interests me more. The news of Microsoft’s possible takeover of Yahoo has been surfacing in the media for time and again. And last Wednesday saw its head rising again. Fortune magazine and CNN Money carried reports [...]

Acquisitions is surely the new expansion mantra. We have blogged on - WPP acquiring Quasar Media, UTV acquiring ITNation and now it is Motorola who has keen interest in acquiring Soundbuzz, the Asian online and mobile music company. Financial terms regarding the deal are yet to be disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close [...]