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Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”

mohit — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:38:32 GMT

Quoted: Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from ...

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Twitter May Buy Summize

mohit — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:25:45 GMT

I think this deal makes sense. Why implement your search for your service when somebody else already does it really well?

Quoted: The deal certainly makes sense. Unlike rival Friendfeed, Twitter still lacks a search feature. And Twitter has relied on Summize in the recent past to help reduce load on the Twitter API. Summize is also one of (or the only) Twitter partner that has access to their XMPP stream.

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Microsoft To Buy Powerset? Not Just Yet.

mohit — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:59:03 GMT

There must be more to their business than searching Wikipedia.

Quoted: VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company.

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Microsoft’s $80 billion (and growing) Yahoo Headache

mohit — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:02:50 GMT

If you factor in Microsoft's market cap drop, Microsoft's bid for Yahoo will cost $80 billion.

Quoted: Microsoft closed at $32.60 per share on January 31, hours before the Yahoo bid was placed. On Friday, the stock closed at $28.56, a decline of about 13% and the lowest it has been since 2006. That erased just under $38 billion in Microsoft shareholder value.

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Microsoft Announces Takeover Bid for FAST - ReadWriteWeb

mohit — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:53:30 GMT

Quoted: According to Mary-Jo Foley, we should pay attention to how Microsoft will integrate FAST into their SharePoint Server. "Remember what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said about SharePoint last year: He characterized SharePoint as the next big operating system from Microsoft," she writes. "More and more, it’s looking like enterprise search functionality is one of the biggest reasons why."

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The Year In Deals (2007 Edition)

mohit — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:44:03 GMT

A nice, although not comprehensive, recap.

Quoted: The list is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to give a flavor for the deals that went down in 2007. The year started out with eBay’s acquisition of StubHub and rumors of its StumbleUpon deal

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Blog site that is popular in Russia is sold | Technology | Internet | Reuters

mohit — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:31:34 GMT

Quoted: The free, ad-supported blog site encourages users to keep online diaries they share and discuss with friends. It counts 14.3 million blog accounts and roughly 20 million visitors a month. Its writers publish more than 150,000 new posts a day.

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Tata looks at risky turn in UK move - Financial Times- msnbc.com

mohit — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:48:20 GMT

Indian companies have been making record numbers of foreign acquisitions recently -- creating many multi-national Indian-headquartered companies in the process. This article focues on Tata's acquisition activity. Didn't know that Tata now owns Tetley Tea, formerly a British company.

Quoted: Now Tata - after buying two British industrial icons in steelmaker Corus and Tetley Tea - has emerged alongside rival Indian producer Mahindra & Mahindra and US buy-out group One Equity Partners on Ford Motor's shortlist to buy Jaguar and Land Rover, its UK luxury marques.

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Digg to sell for $300 million? Really? | The Social - CNET News.com

mohit — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:41:14 GMT

Redot.

Quoted: Valleywag reports that the social news site, a frequent acquisition gossip item, might really be getting sold this time around.

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MSNBC snaps up startup Newsvine

mohit — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:39:48 GMT

Quoted: MSNBC Interactive News, a Microsoft and NBC Universal joint venture with 27.3 million Web visitors in August, announced Sunday night that it has purchased Newsvine in a deal of undisclosed size. It is the first acquisition in MSNBC.com's 11-year history, one that President Charlie Tillinghast hopes will lead to additional news-sharing features on MSNBC and tap an audience of highly engaged news readers.

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