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Report: Smartphone Maker Palm Seeking Buyers
Los Angeles - Mobile handset maker Palm (NASD: PALM) has retained Goldman Sachs and
Qatalyst Partners in an attempt to solicit bids for the struggling...
Google Acquires Mobile Photo Art ID Service Plink
Oxford, England - Google (NASD: GOOG) has acquired
Plink, an Android-based service that can identify works of art from pictures taken
by mobile phone cameras, according...
Twitter Acquires Tweetie iPhone Application Developer Atebits
San Francisco
- Twitter announced on Friday that it is acquiring Atebits, the developer of Tweetie,
an iPhone application for Twitter.
Financial terms of the deal were...
Content Delivery Network EdgeCast Lands $10 Million
Santa Monica,
Calif. - EdgeCast Networks, a
provider of content delivery network services, announced on Monday that it has raised
$10 million in its third round of...
BlackBerry Maker RIM Acquires In-Car Systems Firm QNX
Waterloo,
Canada -
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (NASD: RIMM) announced on Friday that it has acquired
QNX Software Systems from Harman International.
Financial terms of the deal
were...
Nokia Acquires Geographic Intelligence Firm MetaCarta
Espoo, Finland - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced on Friday
that is has acquired MetaCarta, a developer of geosearch and geotagging
technology.
Financial terms of the transaction were not...
Kontangent Raises $1.25 Million for Social Media Analytics
San Francisco
- Kontangent, the provider of a social media analytics platform, announced on
Friday that it has raised $1.25 million in funding.
The company received...
Exponent Acquires Gorkana Public Relations Database
New York
- Gorkana, the provider of a public relations database covering 130,000
journalists, has been acquired by private equity firm Exponent, the Telegraph
reported.
The purchase price...
MusicMatic Buys Stake in Jamendo Music Service
Luxembourg
- European music broadcasting and technology firm MusicMatic has purchased
Mangrove Capital Partners' stake in Jamendo, a provider of free song downloads
licensed by artists that...
WSJ: Antitrust Regulators May Challenge Google's AdMob Deal
Washington - Antitrust regulators at the Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) "appear to be laying the groundwork" for a challenge
to Google's (NASD: GOOG) proposed acquisition of...
