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BuzzGain gets acquired by Meltwater For $4 Million – Social Media Monitoring Gains Momentum
It seems proliferation in use of social networks has enabled the acquisition buzz getting getting shifted from social networks to social media marketing companies. Buzzgain, social media monitoring company based out of bangalore is getting acquired by Meltwater for $4 million.
Buzzgain currently provides social media monitoring solution which helps brands and customer service companies to [...]
Opera Acquires Admarvel – To Monetize Its Mobile Browsers
Opera range of mobile browsers are the most visible set of apps amongst Indian mobile subscribers so much so that even some Indian telcos officially endorses its products. Today Opera announced that it has acquired Admarvel, a company providing solutions in mobile advertising space.
The acquisition despite being small at $ 8 Million will provide Opera [...]
Google Acquires reCaptcha – And It’s Not Just to Fight Spam
Google just announced that it has acquired Spam protection tool Re-Captcha.
We tried to make it hard for computers to recognize because we wanted to give humans the scoop first, but we’re happy to announce to everybody now that Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect more than 100,000 websites from spam and fraud.
says their blog post penned (or typed perhaps) by Luis von Ahn, co-founder of reCAPTCHA, and Will Cathcart, Google Product Manager.
Deutsche Telekom To Foray Into Internet Market in India
The Indian telecommunications market is among the fastest in the world and projections show that this year, despite the recession, the number of mobile phone users will grow by 30%, to around 450 million by the end of the year. That was pretty good reason why Deutsche Telekom AG, the German based telecom group invested [...]
OnMobile Acquires Telisma, Quatrro BPO followed it up with Babel Media – Indian Companies go Global
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.
The Modi – (Telekom) Malaysia Lock Out for SPICE
Another Guest Post by ‘pretty boy‘ Abhinandan Nardekar
The buzz in the Indian telecom industry is just refusing to die down. Close on the heels of talks of Bharti-MTN merger [which eventually turned out to be a damp squib], comes another killer punch. This one is from the much lesser talked about minnow – Spice Communications.
It [...]
AOL To Buy Bebo For 850 Million $ In Cash!
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 [...]
What Microsoft Needs to be Careful About if the Yahoo Acquisition Comes Through
We have already written about Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo! at $44.6 Billion (the largest ever in the technology industry by the way ) at a 62% premium over the company’s stock price on Thursday.
According to Microsoft’s estimates, the online advertising industry will increase from $40 Billion today to $80 Billion in 2007.
Microsoft and Yahoo [...]
Microsoft Buys 35% Stake In Oxigen- India’s E-Distribution Company
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 [...]
Updated! – Exclusive: UTV Acquires ITNation!
(Updated) – I have been further informed by my sources that UTV would be doing this deal under the company UTV Interactive which was formed in 2000. Also that ITNation will be revamping current and also launching more websites. This deal officially may take a couple of months.
I have still not got any confirmation on [...]
Capital 18 picks up a substantial stake in Webchutney
We have written about this before. Digital advertising companies have proved that they are effective in marketing. The traditional media has begun to take note lately. After the WPP’s acquisition of Quasar Media, now comes the news of Capital 18 acquiring a stake in WebChutney. Capital 18 is the venture capital arm of Network 18. [...]
HTMedia Buys Desimartini for less than 10 million $!! Is This The Facebook Impact??
Ok i read this news via my feed reader and im a little amused. Mint reports that Desimartini is bought by HT media. The article claims that Desimartini has 2.5 lakhs registered users (many of which signed up due to the TV ads we disussed here) and also 2.5 million page views per month. Now [...]
Cricinfo.com acquired by ESPN!
Well this news is just in.. Cricinfo (probably one of the best cricket related sites in the world) which was owned by Wisden Group has been acquired by the sports tv giant ESPN.
On the acquition Russell Wolff, managing director, ESPN International, told agencyfaqs “Growing our business in the on-line world is vital for us to serve sports fans. [...]
Madhouse acquired by Seventymm!
Well the dvd rental business has shown the first signs of consolidation. Seventymm has acquired 100 per cent equity of the New Delhi-based Madhouse for an undisclosed amount. This is probably because of the fact that Madhouse had a good network in the delhi and gurgaon belt and also had a good team backing it. [...]
Ybrant acquires AdDynamix for 10M$
Ybrant Technologies Ltd a company engagaed in providing emarketing solutions has acquired AdDynamix, an online Ad network, for $10 million in cash and promissory notes. AdDynamix is an interactive advertising network delivering ad management, video and digital media services to agencies, entertainment clients and direct marketers.
"Given the deep network reach and the premier client roster of AdDynamix, we [...]