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Google Buys Startups Apture, Katango Two new acquisitions announced Thursday By Anthony Ha, Ki Mae Heussner

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…

November 11, 2011, 5:40 AM EST

Omnicom Exec Dosch Is Cheil CFO Will help execute acquisitions strategy By Noreen O'Leary

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…

June 1, 2011, 6:51 AM EDT

Publicis Acquires Rosetta in $575 Million Deal By Emma Bazilian

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…

May 17, 2011, 7:37 AM EDT

Yahoo to Acquire Ad Platform 5:1 It will reunite the team from MySpace's glory days By Emma Bazilian

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…

May 12, 2011, 12:33 PM EDT

Warner Bros. Buys Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes Studio trying to grow its digital content ownership By Emma Bazilian

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…

May 4, 2011, 10:55 AM EDT

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