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Cisco to buy Meraki for $1.2 billion Cisco Systems continued to beef up its portfolio of cloud-based networking offerings with its announcement
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Disney buys firm behind Star Wars| SF Presidio: Disney is buying Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars films, from its chairman and founder George Lucas for $4.05bn | |
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Sports website Bleacher Report sells for $175 million
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| Jun.15 |
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Microsoft Said to Agree to Acquire Yammer for $1.2B  Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, has agreed to purchase Yammer Inc., operator of a social network for businesses
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Salesforce.com to buy Buddy Media San Francisco cloud-computing giant Salesforce.com Inc. has made its biggest purchase ever, agreeing to buy Buddy Media Inc. for about $745 ...
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Starbucks buys La Boulange for $100 million
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Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion| Facebook took steps to bolster its mobile strategy, acquiring popular photo-sharing to buy the social network's largest by far for a smart phone app | |
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| Nov.10 |
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Google buys Katango and Apture
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| Sep.16 |
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Wells Fargo Insurance buys Procomp
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| Aug.29 |
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Cisco buys S.F. software startup Versly
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| Mar.21 |
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Schwab buys OptionsXpress for $1B Charles Schwab is buying online brokerage services provider in a move to capitalize on the profitable business of options trading
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Google, Facebook consider buying Twitter
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Del Monte to be sold for $4 billion| A group led by KKR & Co. agreed to acquire Del Monte Foods Co. to give the New York buyout firm pet-food brands such as Meow Mix and Kibbles 'n Bits | |
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| Oct.11 |
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Gymboree Oks $1.8B buyout Children's clothing retailer has agreed to be bought by asset management firm Bain Capital in the sixth-largest private equity deal of the year
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| Oct.2 |
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Gymboree's stock up over rumors
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| Sep.28 |
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AOL buying TechCrunch TechCrunch Inc. operates a popular and influential network of technology news blogs
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| Sep.22 |
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Sharp acquires solar developer Recurrent Japan's biggest solar-panel manufacturer, agreed to buy Recurrent Energy for as much as $305 million to expand into building power plants
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Anchor Brewing acquisition is official
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| Apr.27 |
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Anchor Brewing sold to Greggor, Foglio Fritz Maytag, the washing machine heir who launched the microbrewery movement, has sold Anchor Brewing Co.to Bay Area entrepreneurs
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| Apr.26 |
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Stifel to buy Thomas Weisel for $300 M Brokerage and investment adviser Stifel Financial will buy rival Thomas Weisel Partners Group to build a middle-market investment bank
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| Apr.21 |
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Visa paying $2B for CyberSource| CyberSource's fraud prevention technology is expected to help Visa to increase online use of the credit, debit and prepaid cards | |
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Taxes sought from banks' takeovers SF City Hall: San Francisco Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting. Now Ting: Big banks have been slow to pay real estate taxes after they bought other companies
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Shiseido to buy Bare Escentuals for $1.7 B Japanese cosmetics giant it will acquire a maker of trendy makeup brands and advancing the company's plan to boost its global presence
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Bechtel in BrightSource deal Bechtel, long associated with nuclear power and fossil fuels, will build big solar plants in the Mojave Desert for BrightSource Energy
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Examiner.com buys NowPublic Two Web sites that rely on a mix of experts and amateur reporters to cover community news are joining forces
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| Oct.13 |
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Feds approve merger with Wachovia Wells Fargo: The Federal Reserve approves the merger of Wells Fargo and Wachovia after Citigroup withdraws the legal case in a New York federal court
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Wells gets green light for Wachovia Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo is proceeding with plans to acquire Wachovia Corp. for $11.7 billion. Citigroup wouldn't pursue legal actions to halt the takeover
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Wells Fargo To Buy Wachovia Wachovia agreed to be acquired in a $15.1 billion all-stock deal. Citigroup demands that Wachovia abide by the terms of its earlier deal
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Gap-Backed To Reorganize Pacific Lumber A company backed by the founders of Gap has taken control of the bankrupt Pacific Lumber Co. and the 210,000 acres of timberlands
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CBS in $1.8B deal for info site Cnet Media and entertainment company is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider
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Merrill Lynch buying First Republic. SF Downtown
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IBM to Buy Micromuse for $865M in Cash
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Wells Fargo to buy Utah's biggest bank
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Schwab agrees to buy CyBerCorp
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Schwab Buying U.S. Trust Corp. Online trading giant buying one of the nation's largest managers of money for the wealthy, for $2.7 billion in stock
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