Topic: acquisitions
While Yahoo seems near a deal to purchase Tumblr for as much as $1 billion, reports today suggest other notable players are kicking the tires on the growing blogging platform—namely, Facebook. So…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call that she was eyeballing relatively small acquisitions, describing potential deals as “something in the size and scale of double-digit…
Publicis Groupe has acquired a 100 percent stake in Rokkan, the holding company and agency announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The purchase adds another digital shop—and…
Content-sharing site Digg has been sold to Betaworks, and the technology investment company grabbed the waning social starlet for only $500,000, according to The Wall Street Journal. Of course Betaworks is…
Enterprise software giants are continuing their courtship of social-centric tech companies. Following May’s acquisition of social media management firm Vitrue and last month’s for social intelligence firm Collective Intellect, Oracle has…
Digital agency Profero has purchased a majority stake in Latino-focused shop Vox Collective, the companies announced today. Financial terms were not disclosed. Vox Collective will rebrand as Vox Profero, while being…
Facebook has bought facial recognition startup Face.com. The company did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, but the deal is expected to close in the coming weeks. Facebook is keeping…
Salesforce announced this morning that it is buying social media management platform Buddy Media for $689 million. The deal, which All Things D reported was on the horizon last week,…
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…
