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Acquisition of Motorola by Lenovo is now officially complete

Lalit Pandey — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:33:13 +0000

It has been quite a long time that Google had announced its subsidiary, Motorola to be sold to Lenovo back in January this year, and the purchase is officially complete now. All the paper works are completed, and the subsidiary company will be onwards called as Motorola: a Lenovo company. The purchase of Motorola by […]

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Apple acquires Beats for $3 Billion

Lalit Pandey — Thu, 29 May 2014 11:21:25 +0000

Beats electronics and Beats audio, are now officially owned by Apple Inc., since Apple acquires Beats for $3 Billion.That’s a pretty huge sum of money, but it’s still less than what in the past was circulating, that the purchase would be for $3.2 Billion.The acquisition ranks as the largest that Apple has ever made and […]

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Google acquires smart home device maker Nest for $3.2 billion

Shrawan — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:14:54 +0000

Google has acquired Nest, the makers of smart thermostat and smoke detector, for $3.2 million. This is the second biggest acquisition for Google after it bought Motorola mobility for a whopping $12.5 billion. “Nest’s founders, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, have built a tremendous team that we are excited to welcome into the Google family.” […]

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Popular Android alarm app “Timely” now free to download

Shrawan — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:26:15 +0000

Google has just acquired Bitspin, the Swiss developers of the popular Android alarm app called “Timely“. Timely has a very neat and attractive interface and is packed with all the necessary features you would expect in a digital alarm clock. The app supports a wide array of features from wake up challenges to […]

Microsoft to acquire Nokia mobile for $7.2 billion

Shrawan — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:30:59 +0000

It is now confirmed that Nokia mobile will be purchased by Microsoft for $7.2 billion. This deal will be sealed by early 2014 and all 32,000 Nokia handset services employees will be working for Microsoft. Following this deal, Stephen Elop will step down from his position of President and Chief Executive of Nokia and resign […]

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Rockmelt acquired by Yahoo

Shrawan — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:24:50 +0000

It’s barely two months since Rockmelt entered the Android apps market (Google Play Store) and it’s already acquired by Yahoo. According to reports, the deal was sealed at $50 to $60 million. Before hitting the Android store, Rockmelt was in the Apple App store for almost four years. Rockmelt is the 21st mobile app startup […]

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AT&T to buy Leap Wireless for $1.2 billion

Ashesh — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 07:28:34 +0000

It is confirmed that the number two carrier, AT&T, will buy Leap Wireless International Inc for $1.3 billion. After this acquisition, AT&T will have five million more customers and more airwaves or spectrum to expand its network. Leap operates under the brand “Cricket” and AT&T will continue to use this name. It is reported that […]

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Astrid shutting down on August 5, 2013

Ashesh — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:23:20 +0000

After May 1st Acquisition by Yahoo, Astrid has announced that it will be shutting down on August 5th, 2013. For those of you who don’t know what Astrid is, it is a task organizer/ to-do/personal assistant app which has been downloaded more than 4 million times in the app store. There are no reports what […]

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Yahoo acquires Xobni

Ashesh — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 11:06:05 +0000

Only yesterday we published a report about Yahoo’s acquisition of the video making app Qwiki and now today it is confirmed that Yahoo is buying another startup, an email and address book management service provider called Xobni (inbox when you spell it backwards). Now 31 employees of Xobni will be working for Yahoo. Xobni has […]

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Yahoo buys iPhone app “Qwiki”

Ashesh — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:10:27 +0000

Reports have confirmed that Yahoo has acquired another budding startup, Qwiki. Qwiki is an iphone application that allows you to “quikly” turn your gallery of images, videos and music into short movies.Though it is not yet officially announced, the deal was made at a whopping $50 million. Actually, it’s not so “whopping” compared to Yahoo’s […]

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