Topic: Acquisition
Facebook is mapping out an acquisition of crowdsourced traffic navigation mobile app Waze, according to reports from three Israeli publications and confirmed by TechCrunch. A Facebook spokesperson said the company doesn’t…
It's been a weird month for social and media. A few weeks after Facebook’s managing editor announced his departure and during the same week Tumblr said it is dismantling its…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made of point of prioritizing mobile as central to the portal’s future. That has led to string of acquisitions—the most recent being Monday’s pick-up of…
In December Facebook announced that it was setting up a design team in its New York office to work with brands and agencies. Now that team’s getting its first set…
WPP Group has acquired Canadian agency John St. for an undisclosed sum. The Toronto-based boutique had unaudited revenue of about $13.6 million at the end of 2012, according to WPP. The…
Over the past few months, reports that Facebook would acquire the Atlas Solutions ad server from Microsoft has fueled both speculation that the social network was prepping an external ad network…
Facebook's much-reported plan to acquire Microsoft's Atlas ad server is finally a go. On Thursday the companies announced the acquisition agreement. However, a number of industry veterans have questioned the buy, pointing to…
Much as they may have tried, Google and enterprise behemoths Salesforce and Oracle didn’t scoop up all the social startups last year. In fact one startup that only launched its…
Not robust, but healthy with more reasonable prices. That’s how leaders of marketing firms and media outlets view the 2013 marketplace for mergers and acquisitions, in a new poll from…
This may be the year Pinterest gets acquired, but the social scrapbooking site kicked off 2013 with an acquisition of its own, its first in fact. Pinterest has acquired two-year-old…
