5 month ago
nelson : Summize on the deal - Notes from the Summize guys on being acquired by Twitter
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5 month ago
nelson : Twitter + Summize - Congratulations guys, this is great for Twitter
Andy Baio : Twitter officially acquires Summize - search.twitter.com is now live
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nelson : Microsoft buys Danger - Mobile is the new battleground
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10 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How Yahoo! Can Get Out Of The Microsoft Bear Hug - How Yahoo! Can Get Out Of The Microsoft Bear Hug: "So Jerry and the Board of Yahoo! should resist the bear hug and split up Yahoo! instead."
nelson : Fred on Yicrosoft - "Web services don't get better under the ownership of big companies. They get worse."
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10 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! and the future of the Internet - Yahoo! and the future of the Internet: uh... google coming to our defense? not quite.
nelson : Google fights back - David Drummond raises anti-trust issues with IM and email
Linkorama : Yahoo! and the future of the Internet - Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services?
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11 month ago
Simon Willison : Sun To Acquire MySQL - Sun To Acquire MySQL. Sun also employ Josh Berkus, one of the lead developers of PostgreSQL.
nelson : MySQL AB: $1 billion - Amazing purchase price, but would you want to be bought by Sun?
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14 month ago
nelson : Google + Jaiku - congratulations to the little startup
deusx : Jaiku | Google Q&A - "Google acquires Jaiku - Jaiku is joining Google. "
Rod Begbie : Jaiku | Google Q&A - Google have bought the Finnish Twitter-a-like Jaiku. I always liked Jaiku's S60 cellphone software -- wonder if this purchase has anything to do with Google's cellphone ambitions? (And I hope it does better under Google's roof than Dodgeball did) [via] #
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14 month ago
43folders : Jaiku | Google Q&A
Richard Rutter : Google acquires Jaiku - I hope it doesn’t become vapourware like everything Google buys.
plasticbag : Google are acquiring Jaiku and with it, presumably, the lovely Jyri and Ulla - Well done guys! I'm assuming this has something to do with the fabled GPhone?
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16 month ago
nelson : Facebook app: $3M - good lord, that's a lot of money for a simple app.
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19 month ago
nelson : Microsoft / Aquantive - They paid a huge amount of money
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20 month ago
nelson : Dodgeball founders quit Google - They lasted less than two years! Sad for everyone involved.
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34 month ago
erikbenson : Bill Turner talks about the sale of his Lists of Bests site to us - I'm quite excited about this... we should have a preview site up for some people in the next couple days.
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34 month ago
Andy Baio : Google buys Measure Map - congrats, Jeff and the Adaptive Path crew!
Jeremy Zawodny : Here comes Measure Map - Here comes Measure Map: google bought measure map... saw that coming a mile away
Douglas Bowman : Google > Measure Map - Congratulations to Jeff Veen and the entire Adaptive Path team that worked on Measure Map. Here's to even better things ahead.
Jason Shellen : Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map - Google picks up Measure Map plus co-creator Jeff Veen and crew. Glad to have the deal all sewn up. #
kellan : MeasureMap goes to Google, which means Ruby at Google! - Beginning of a trend? (I'd say this will fix the MeasureMap scalability probs, except G hasn't fixed the ones with Gurchin yet) #
jkottke : Google buys Measure Map, Jeff Veen leaves Adaptive Path to work at Google - Google buys Measure Map, Jeff Veen leaves Adaptive Path to work at Google.
plasticbag : It's official! Google buys Measuremap! - I've chatted to Veen a few times over the last few months but still this is a surprise. It's a lovely piece of work, which I imagine will fit Blogger very well. And I'm looking forward to hearing about Google's culture and swapping notes...
Linkorama : Here comes Measure Map - Bought by Google, congrats AP!
jimray : Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map - Jeff Veen joins Google, as does Measure Map
Nelson Minar : Jeff Veen to Google - Good for him
kayodeok : Official Google Blog: Here comes Measure Map - Our goal has been to use the power of web analytics to help bloggers feel that same sense of connection with their audience. Today, as the Measure Map team joins Google, our mission remains the same: to build the best possible user experience so people ca
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35 month ago
kellan : Yahoo Will Buy Digg Next Week for $30mil? - Dear god it can't be worth that much. Somehow Digg has always seemed soooo boring, traffic numbers aside. #
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35 month ago
plasticbag : "Yahoo! Announces Acquisition of Company Before Its Foundation" - Nice parody! It's a parody right? "Yahoo saw the possibilities in the company I was thinking about building while waiting to get into a World of Warcraft battleground." Is this what happened to me?
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36 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!: yahoo buys del.icio.us
Andy Baio : Yahoo! acquires Del.icio.us - everyone I know now works at Yahoo
jkottke : Yahoo! buys del.icio.us - Yahoo! buys del.icio.us...muxway is all growed up. There's an interesting story in here somewhere about how Yahoo! is hiring/buying the "alpha geeks" (hackers, tinkerers, accidental entrepreneurs) and Google seemingly isn't (Ph.Ds, computer scientists) an
jimray : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - Wow
erikbenson : Yahoo buys del.icio.us. Nice! - Congratulations, Joshua.
Linkorama : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - I just thought I would link to it and add every recommended tag. Congrats Josh!
Paul Hammond : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family
kayodeok : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community
Philippe Janvier : del.icio.us : y.ah.oo ! - Après Flickr, Yahoo achète Del.icio.us. La fin du web tel que l'on a pu le connaître ces trois dernières années. Qui sera le prochain ? [via] #
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37 month ago
Cameron Moll : Joyent Acquires TextDrive - Joyent acquires TextDrive. Holy Hanna!
Richard Rutter : Joyent acquires TextDrive - Maybe Textdrive will get some reliability now. Maybe..
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Anil Dash: The Flip 2K5 - I think it's interesting to take a look at the companies that have already flipped and to compare them to the acquisitions after the deflation of the Web 1.0 bubble.
jimray : Anil Dash: The Flip 2K5 - The new new economy
erikbenson : Anil Dash: The Flip 2K5 - Interesting idea... though I don't think many of the people/friends we see flipping right now are making a million bucks.
Douglas Bowman : The Flip 2K5 - Anil's theory on the new flip.
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38 month ago
kellan : EBay not actually acquiring VeriSign - So we won't be seeing 'Do you trust this certificate? A++++ excellent certificate, would do secure business with it again!!!' anytime soon. A pity. I would have rated the comment +5 insightful, not +5 funny. #
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39 month ago
kellan : Hershey to Buy Scharffen Berger - How sad, I wonder if I should run to TJs and stock up. #
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40 month ago
plasticbag : Some users of Flickr are more than a little pissed at the Yahoo acquisition. The whole thing is very interesting. Don't know what I think about it quite yet... - "A splinter faction of Flickr photo-sharing community members is threatening a symbolic "mass suicide" to protest closer integration with the website's new owner, Yahoo"
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41 month ago
kayodeok : John Battelle's Searchblog: Search Engine Watch (SEW) Sold - Search Engine Watch Sold. Buyer is Incisive Media of the UK (quite possibly the worst use of color on a site in the history of the web). $43 million
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Trend Micro to buy anti-spyware firm InterMute - Trend Micro today announced its intent to acquire privately held anti-spyware software provider InterMute Inc., which makes both consumer and enterprise SpySubtract products, for $15 million.
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