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Google Continues To Grow Despite Speculations

by | posted: October 14, 2011
Google Inc shows positive results, dispels fears despite fears of a darkening economic outlook, especially in Europe which had fueled worries about advertising growth. Google Inc.’s 3rd Quarter results...
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Flipkart To Start Digital Distribution Of Media; Acquires Mime360

by | posted: October 12, 2011
What started as a simple online bookstore, soon spread its wings to electronics & gadgets & now Flipkart has moved onto the next evolutionary step of digital distribution of multimedia content. Flipkart’s...
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Will 2011 Be The Year Facebook Conquers The Web?

by | posted: December 31, 2010
2010 has been the year for Facebook. Amongst all the highs and lows, the news that came last will end the year on a high for the social networking king — Facebook is the most-visited website in the...
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Facebook Acquires Chai Labs – Attempt To Keep Google At Bay?

by | posted: August 17, 2010
The shopping fest is on and even Facebook doesn’t want to miss it. The news is Facebook has acquired Chai Labs; a California based start-up company which specializes in making platforms that allow...
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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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Reliance Goes BIG – Acquires 50% In Codemasters The British Developer

by | posted: April 5, 2010
Zapak has forayed international arena with this one. One of its kind acquisition in the gaming space in India the Reliance Big Enterainment guys have acquired 50% in  British Game Development company...
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Edserv Acquires Smart Learn WebTV for $1 Million

by | posted: March 3, 2010
Edserv is building competency against other education based companies through its acquisition led strategy. So after acquiring startup 2tion and SchoolMATE it is set to acquire Smart Learn WebTV for a...
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MakeMyTrip Acquires TicketVala – Adds Further Strength To Bus Ticketing

by | posted: February 12, 2010
MakeMyTrip which had earlier claimed to have the largest bus ticketing inventory has now increased that even more. Makemytrip has announced the acquisition of Ticketvala which is owned by Travis Internet...
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Google Apps To Include Video Conferencing

by | posted: November 11, 2009
Google is a company that loves to be in the news. Or maybe, the news just reports everything it does. In any case, quickly following the takeover of AdMob and the acquisition of Gizmo5, it’s here again. Video...
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Acquisition Buzz: EdServ acquires 2tion.com

by | posted: October 13, 2009
The buzz surrounding online education industry refuses to die down and this time it seems M & A has become the toast of the industry. To fuel its growth momentum Edserv has announced the acquisition...
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Acquisition Updates: ValueFirst – Cellnext | Sabse – Mobivox

by | posted: October 1, 2009
The acquisition deals seems to be happening in plenty in the last few days and most of them are in the mobile space! This trend indicates the need for consolidation in this space and how companies...
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The Big News: Friendfeed Gets Facebooked – Gets Acquired for $50 Million

by | posted: August 11, 2009
The news is everywhere, Facebook has agreed to acquire Friendfeed for reportedly $50 million, and with it have set blog-tongues wagging on what the deal means for the social web. The Facebook announcement...
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IMI Mobile To Buy Mobyko – A Mobile Back Up / Sharing Tool

by | posted: July 8, 2009
Indian companies are realizing the value of Mobile VAS so much so that they are buying out international companies and expanding in International markets  to provide great VAS products. So in an interesting...
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Burrp! Acquired By Infomedia18 – Strategy Or Distress?

by | posted: April 3, 2009
Burrp! the local lifestyle listings company has been reportedly been acquired by Infomedia18 which is a part of the Network18 group. If one may recollect burrp! was funded by Haresh Chawla the CEO of Network18...
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Merger & Acquistion Updates: Mobile2win – Altruist / ApnaCircle – Viadeo

by | posted: February 13, 2009
Consolidation seems to be the name of the game with mergers and acquisitions being announced this week. One in the mobile space which one in the social networking space. Altruist Acquires Mobile2win India Mobile2win...
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Microsoft picks up minority stake in the SMS2.0 firm Affle

by | posted: February 11, 2009
Microsoft reportedly picked up a minority stake in a Singapore based SMS 2.0 firm Affle, the press release from the Affle reports that it has established a strategic relationship with Microsoft to strengthen...
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