Google Ads Jambool To Its Kitty

by | posted: August 11, 2010
Hard on the heels of acquiring Slide Inc a few days ago, Google is rumored to acquire Jambool, a virtual currency platform, making it the 18th acquisition by the internet giant this year. These are strong...
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Google breeding a ‘New Weapon’ to beat Facebook

by | posted: July 30, 2010
Google, having dominated the search engine industry for quite a while now, desires to conquer the social networking world too. This exact motive of Google’s has compelled it to ideate and carry out talks...
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Mergers On The Cards In Indian Telecom Sector

by | posted: July 13, 2010
From an international point of view, when you think about India, one of the things that strike you is quality products and services at cheap prices. One of the pristine examples is the current scenario...
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Yahoo Increases Focus On Content – Buys Associated Content For 100 Mil $

by | posted: May 20, 2010
It seems Yahoo continues its focus on bringing great content ability on board for its readers. We had blogged about how they roped in mainline journalists for many of their online news properties. Now...
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BuzzGain gets acquired by Meltwater For $4 Million – Social Media Monitoring Gains Momentum

by | posted: March 2, 2010
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...
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Opera Acquires Admarvel – To Monetize Its Mobile Browsers

by | posted: January 20, 2010
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...
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Google Acquires reCaptcha – And It’s Not Just to Fight Spam

by | posted: September 16, 2009
Talk about acquisitions that don’t make much sense in the beginning but eventually pan out just fine, they usually end up sounding like a modern day fairy tale to me. Thankfully I snap out in time...
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Deutsche Telekom To Foray Into Internet Market in India

by | posted: August 24, 2009
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...
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OnMobile Acquires Telisma, Quatrro BPO followed it up with Babel Media – Indian Companies go Global

by | posted: July 2, 2008
  The beginning of July saw the beginning of a new chapter in lives of two of India’s less known companies, OnMobile and Quatrro (now, this line might sound a little controversial). OnMobile Global...
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The Modi – (Telekom) Malaysia Lock Out for SPICE

by | posted: June 4, 2008
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...
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AOL To Buy Bebo For 850 Million $ In Cash!

by | posted: March 14, 2008
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...
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What Microsoft Needs to be Careful About if the Yahoo Acquisition Comes Through

by | posted: February 2, 2008
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...
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Microsoft Buys 35% Stake In Oxigen- India’s E-Distribution Company

by | posted: January 25, 2008
  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...
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Updated! – Exclusive: UTV Acquires ITNation!

by | posted: January 3, 2008
(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...
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Capital 18 picks up a substantial stake in Webchutney

by | posted: November 22, 2007
      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...
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HTMedia Buys Desimartini for less than 10 million $!! Is This The Facebook Impact??

by | posted: November 21, 2007
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...
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