Tag: acquisition
Motorola laying off 20% of staff while refocusing efforts
The new Google-owned Motorola Mobility is getting ready to make some changes. Now that Google's finally earned full control after purchasing Motorola, they are...
AT&T set to buy up spectrum with NextWave acquisition
Today AT&T announced plans to buy up NextWave Wireless, and though it may seem like an odd purchase at first, there's a good reason...
Google acquires Sparrow for Gmail mobile reboot
Google has acquired Sparrow, a company that makes a popular email client for Mac and iOS. Details on the acquisition are pretty light at...
Samsung buys chipmaker CSR’s technology and patents
Today Samsung has acquired the chipmaker company CSR's wireless handset technology and patents for the tune of around $310 million. CSR is a UK...
Google acquires Quickoffice to expand mobile apps
Fresh off of the news yesterday that Google had acquired Meebo for their social services we've now just learned that today they've finalized another...
Google buys Meebo – looks to improve Google+
While Google isn't snatching things up at the rate Facebook is, today it has been confirmed that they've acquired another company. The social and...
Google acquires G1 designers Mike and Maaike
In an interesting addition to Google's growing stable of purchases, Bloomberg reports that the company has bought the San Francisco design studio that helped...
Google’s Motorola acquisition is final
The long courtship is over. Just days after securing conditional approval from China, Google's 12.5 billion dollar acquisition of US-based Motorola Mobility is complete....
Facebook purchases Karma – social gift service
It looks like Facebook has been getting some good Karma as of late because they've been rocking out. first with the purchase of Instagram,...
China approves Google’s Motorola acquisition
One of the last hurdles for Google's acquisition of hardware giant Motorola Mobility has been passed: the People's Republic of China has reportedly approved...
Facebook buys TagTile – bringing coupon deals to mobile
Facebook is back in the news today for throwing around large sums of money. After buying Instagram for a whopping 1 billion dollars today...
Motorola hardware division sell off by Google is unlikely
The acquisition by Google of Motorola Mobility is still not a done deal, even though it's approaching the 1 year mark since we first...