Topic: acquisitions
The pre-IPO spending spree continues for Facebook. The social network has picked up social discovery app Glancee, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed in an email Friday night. The spokesperson declined to…
AdMedia Partners’ annual poll of marketing agencies and media outlets reveals a healthy appetite for acquisitions, with 59 percent expecting to participate in a deal this year—up significantly from 40…
Google’s acquisition spree continued this week with the announcement that the tech giant bought two startups, Apture and Katango, for undisclosed amounts. Apture, a startup aiming to bring a richer reading…
Omnicom financial exec Henry Dosch has joined Cheil North American Holdings in the new role of chief financial officer to help execute the company’s acquisition strategies. Dosch also leads the financial…
Publicis Groupe has acquired U.S. digital ad agency Rosetta for $575 million. The deal means that Publicis, which has put digital agencies at the heart of its strategy over the…
Yahoo is likely to acquire advertising platform 5:1 in a $30 million sale, according to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington. 5:1 launched in 2009 and has raised around $13 million in funding. Yahoo’s…
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has just acquired Flixster, the social movie app company, as well as Rotten Tomatoes, the film review and news site that Flixster bought from News…
