A first for Google: reaching for a public company

Posted by on August 6, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly In the five years since Google went public, the serial shopper has picked up some 40 other companies. It has bought its way into security, collaboration software, mapping, video and voice, among other areas. And it has inked deals ranging from the low seven figures all the way up to $3.1bn for [...]

Cisco ‘papers’ purchase of Pure Digital

Posted by on March 24, 2009

Contact: Brenon Daly When we wrote recently that Cisco Systems was an unpredictable acquirer, we only covered half of it. Who would have thought (prior to rumors and subsequent official word last Thursday) that Cisco really wanted to buy its way into the consumer electronics market? Much less that the company wanted to enter that [...]

Not ad(d)ing up

Posted by on March 20, 2009

Funding for the online advertising industry hit a brick wall this year. And valuations for once-promising startups are plummeting. But it’s not all gloom and doom in the sector. We identify one area that’s still getting a lot of attention.

National Lampoon CEO indicted

Posted by on December 16, 2008

A month ago, we wrote about one of the more unusual deals that we have seen in some time: National Lampoon picked up BarackObamaJokes.com just after the election. At the time, we noted that the acquisition was part of a larger shopping spree by the long-in-the-tooth humor site, which has inked a half-dozen deals so [...]

Online video: boom and bust

Posted by on December 15, 2008

As promising as the online video market may be, it has not exactly been rosy for the startups trafficking in the space. Several have burned out and had to sell for scraps. We have a feeling this is just the beginning.

Ad networks: What recession?

Posted by on October 30, 2008

Online advertising continues to be a lucrative game. M&As are on the rise and funding is flowing freely to startups. Will this trend continue or crash and burn like so many other inflated Web fads?

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