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| Apr.19 |
San Jose |
SunPower buys solar rival — and avoids Trump’s tariffs |
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| Nov.20 |
San Jose |
Marvell acquires Cavium for $6 billion
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| Mar.13 |
Intel |
Mobileye agreed to be bought by Intel for $15 billion
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| Feb.21 |
Yahoo |
Verizon to buy Yahoo at reduced price Following two massive data breaches at Yahoo, Verizon is now going to pay $4.48 billion instead of $4.8 billion
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| Jan.24 |
Cisco |
No IPO for AppDynamics as Cisco buys it for $3.7 billion
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| Sep.23 |
Twitter |
Twitter stock soars with talk of Google, Salesforce bids
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| Jul.24 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, Verizon set to announce $4.8 billion deal| An agreement to sell core Internet business like Yahoo News, Flickr and Tumblr would mark the conclusion of a tough four years for CEO Mayer | |
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| Jun.22 |
Tesla |
Musk to combine Tesla with SolarCity |
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| Jun.13 |
LinkedIn |
Microsoft to pay $26.2 billion for LinkedIn’s contacts It's the Redmond, Wash., software giant’s largest acquisition to date that make it more powerful challenger to Google, Salesforce and Oracle
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| Apr.4 |
San Jose |
Brocade acquires a 'network onramp' with $1.5 billion acquisition of Ruckus Wireless |
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Burlingame |
Alaska Air buying Virgin America in deal worth more than $2B |
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| Feb.3 |
Cisco |
Cisco in $1.4 billion Internet of Things deal for Jasper |
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| Nov.18 |
San Jose |
Storied Fairchild Semiconductor sold to Arizona chipmaker |
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| Oct.21 |
Milpitas |
SanDisk selling itself to Western Digital for $19 billion
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| Sep.21 |
San Jose |
Atmel to be acquired by Dialog Semiconductor in $4.6B deal |
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| Aug.10 |
Google |
Google gives itself a brand-new name: Alphabet 
Google will be owned by a new umbrella company, Alphabet, a collection of companies, with Google as its largest subsidiary
| Page will be Alphabet’s CEO and Brin its president. Google’s new CEO will be Sundar Pichai
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| Jun.1 |
Intel |
Intel buying chip designer Altera for about $16.7 billion
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| Mar.2 |
Sunnyvale |
HP buys Aruba Networks in biggest deal since 2011 |
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| Feb.6 |
SF Downtown |
Smucker to buy Big Heart Pet Brands for $5.8 billion
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| Feb.2 |
San Francisco |
Advent Software acquired by rival for $2.7 billion |
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| Oct.6 |
HP |
HP officially confirms it will split up Meg Whitman will become CEO and president of HP Enterprise. Dion Weisler, VP of printing and personal systems division, will become CEO of HP...
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| Aug.24 |
Brisbane |
Roche buys Brisbane drugmaker InterMune for $8.3 billion
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| Jul.21 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo buying S.F.'s Flurry analytics firm |
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| Jun.13 |
San Francisco |
Priceline buying OpenTable for $2.6 billion |
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| May.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo buys self-destructing mobile messaging app Blink
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| May.8 |
Apple |
Apple is in talks to buy Beats, report says The Santa Monica-based Beats, founded by rapper Dr. Dre and record producer Jimmy Iovine, makes the ubiquitous Beats by Dre headphones
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| Mar.25 |
Facebook |
Facebook buys Oculus virtual reality headgear maker in $2.3B deal |
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| Mar.6 |
Pleasanton |
Albertsons parent Cerberus to buy Safeway
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| Feb.19 |
Mountain View |
Facebook buys WhatsApp in $19 billion deal | Facebook is paying a whopping $19 billion in cash and stock to buy mobile messaging company, including $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in FB stock. WhatsApp’s founders and employees will also receive $3 billion in restricted stoc... | |
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| Jan.29 |
Google |
Google sells Motorola unit to Lenovo |
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| Jan.13 |
Palo Alto |
Google to buy Nest Labs for $3.2bn
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| Dec.16 |
San Jose |
Avago Technologies buying LSI for $6.6B
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| Jul.1 |
San Francisco |
Zynga CEO steps down, Microsoft exec to take post
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| Jun.5 |
San Francisco |
Salesforce.com buying ExactTarget for $2.34B |
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| May.19 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'
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| Oct.30 |
SF Presidio |
Disney buys firm behind Star Wars 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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| Jun.5 |
Sunnyvale |
SAP had agreed to buy Ariba for $4.3 billion |
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| Apr.9 |
Facebook |
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion |
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| Feb.9 |
Dublin |
Oracle paying $1.9 B for Taleo's HR software |
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| Nov.21 |
Foster City |
Gilead to buy Pharmasset for $11 billion |
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| Aug.18 |
HP |
HP buying Autonomy, dropping webOS |
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| Aug.15 |
Google |
Google in $12.5bn Motorola Mobility deal Internet giant Google has announced a deal to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn. The boards of both companies had approved the deal
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| May.9 |
eBay |
Microsoft near deal to buy Skype |
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| Apr.8 |
Google |
Google OK to buy travel company |
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| Apr.4 |
Santa Clara |
Texas Instruments buying Nat Semi Texas Instruments Inc., the second-largest U.S. chipmaker, agreed to buy National Semiconductor Corp. for $6.5 billion
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| Mar.28 |
eBay |
Ebay buys GSI Commerce |
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| Mar.21 |
Schwab |
Schwab buys OptionsXpress for $1B |
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| Dec.13 |
Sunnyvale |
Dionex to be acquired for $2.1 billion |
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| Dec.3 |
Google |
Groupon says no to Google sale
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| Nov.25 |
San Francisco |
Del Monte to be sold for $4 billion
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| Oct.11 |
San Francisco |
Gymboree Oks $1.8B buyout |
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| Sep.2 |
Fremont |
Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP
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| Aug.23 |
HP |
HP tries to outbid rival Dell for 3Par |
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| Aug.19 |
Intel |
Intel To Buy McAfee In $7.68 Billion Deal Intel Corp. is making the biggest acquisition in its 42-year history with the takeover of computer-security software maker
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| May.27 |
Fremont |
Tesla Expects To Buy NUMMI For $42M
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| Apr.28 |
Palm |
HP To Acquire Palm For About $1.4 B
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| Apr.21 |
San Francisco |
Visa paying $2B for CyberSource |
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| Feb.4 |
Sun |
Sun CEO: Twitter quitter |
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| Jan.21 |
Sun |
EU clears Oracle takeover of Sun |
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| Dec.18 |
Google |
Google reportedly in talks to buy Yelp |
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| Dec.14 |
Oracle |
E.U. warms to Oracle-Sun deal |
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| Nov.11 |
Highway 3Com |
HP to buy 3Com for $2.7B; ups guidance Hewlett-Packard is buying the networking company. HP raised its 2010 guidance and reported preliminary quarterly earnings that topped foreca...
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| Oct.20 |
Sun |
Sun Micro Slashing Up To 3,000 Jobs
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| Oct.13 |
Cisco |
Cisco To Buy Starent Networks For $2.9B |
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| Oct.1 |
Cisco |
Cisco Agrees To Buy Tandberg For $3B |
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| Sep.16 |
eBay |
Skype Founders File Lawsuit Against eBay |
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| Sep.3 |
Oracle |
EU Applies Brakes To Oracle-Sun Deal |
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| Jul.14 |
Netflix |
Rumors: Amazon Buying Out Netflix |
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| Jun.4 |
Intel |
Intel To Buy Wind River |
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| Apr.20 |
Oracle |
Oracle To Buy Sun For $7.4B| Oracle Corp. is pouncing on an opportunity that opened up after rival IBM abandoned an earlier bid to buy computer server and software maker | |
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| Apr.5 |
Sun |
Sun deal cloudy after IBM pulls offer |
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| Apr.4 |
Google |
Google-Twitter Deal Rumored |
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| Mar.18 |
Sun |
IBM May Buy Sun Micro |
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| Mar.12 |
Genentech |
Roche to take over Genentech for $47B| Swiss giant agreed to buy the 44% of biotech pioneer that it doesn't already own, ending a long corporate struggle. The $95-per-share deal brings Roche all of the sales of cancer drugs as well as its promising research pipel... | |
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| Jan.17 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft's Ballmer met Yahoo chairman |
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| Dec.22 |
Sonoma County |
Feuding family sells Sebastiani Vineyards |
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| Oct.13 |
Wells Fargo |
Feds approve merger with Wachovia |
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| Oct.9 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells gets green light for Wachovia |
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| Oct.3 |
Wells Fargo |
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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| Sep.15 |
HP |
HP to cut 24,600 jobs as EDS integration |
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| Aug.18 |
Redwood City |
EA Drops Take-Two Bid |
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| Aug.12 |
Walnut Creek |
CVS Caremark buys Longs Drug Stores |
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| Jul.30 |
Gap |
Gap-Backed To Reorganize Pacific Lumber |
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| Jul.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo turns down another Microsoft offer Yahoo rejected an offer to sell its Internet search business to Microsoft. and leave the remainder of the company in control of Carl Icahn
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| Jun.12 |
Foster City |
Invitrogen to buy Applied Biosystems |
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| May.22 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo postpones meeting, battle Icahn |
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| May.18 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft gives Yahoo bid another go |
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| May.15 |
San Francisco |
CBS in $1.8B deal for info site Cnet |
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| May.12 |
HP |
HP in talks to buy Electronic Data Systems |
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| May.3 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo
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| Apr.26 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo mum as Microsoft's deadline passes |
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| Apr.5 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft gives Yahoo deadline for deal |
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| Mar.26 |
Redwood City |
Take-Two Board Rejects EA Bid |
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| Mar.15 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, Microsoft hold informal talks |
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| Feb.11 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft's takeover
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| Feb.1 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6b bid Microsoft has made an aggressive bid to buy struggling behemoth, in hopes that the combined forces would create a formidable competitor Google
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| Jan.16 |
Oracle |
Oracle to Buy BEA for $7.85 Billion
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| Oct.24 |
Facebook |
Microsoft Puts $240M In Facebook |
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| Oct.12 |
Oracle |
Oracle Offers $6.7B for BEA Systems |
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| May.4 |
Yahoo |
Reports: Microsoft Pursuing Yahoo |
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| Apr.13 |
Google |
Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1B Seeking to expand the ability to sell targeted Internet ads, Google agreed to acquire ad-management technology company
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| Oct.9 |
YouTube |
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn Google is buying video-sharing website for $1.65bn in shares. The companies will continue to operate independently
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| Jul.25 |
Mountain View |
HP to buy Mercury Interactive for $4.5b |
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| Mar.13 |
San Jose |
McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B The second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher will also assume about $2 billion in Knight Ridder's debt
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| Jan.24 |
Emeryville |
Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal Disney has agreed a $7.4bn deal to buy the animation firm behind films including Toy Story and The Incredibles
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| Nov.1 |
Emeryville |
Novartis to buy Chiron
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| Sep.12 |
Oracle |
Oracle to Purchase Siebel in $5.85B Deal
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| Jun.2 |
Sun |
Sun buys StorageTek for $4.1 billion |
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| Apr.18 |
Adobe |
Adobe to acquire Macromedia for $3.4b |
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| Mar.21 |
Oakland |
Diller's Co. Buying Ask Jeeves for $1.85B |
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| Dec.17 |
Cupertino |
Symantec snaps up Veritas for $13.5b |
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| Dec.13 |
Oracle |
Oracle Buys PeopleSoft for $10.3 Billion PeopleSoft agreed to a sweetened buyout by rival software maker, relenting after a 18-month takeover saga
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| Nov.3 |
Napa |
Constellation to buy Mondavi in $1b deal |
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| Sep.9 |
Oracle |
Bid to block PeopleSoft takeover rejected |
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| Jun.6 |
Oracle |
Oracle offers $5.1 billion for PeopleSoft
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| Jul.8 |
eBay |
eBay buying payment provider PayPal |
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| May.7 |
HP |
Merger Layoffs Will Hit At Least 15,000 |
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| Mar.19 |
HP |
CEO claims victory in merger vote Dissident board member W. Hewlett insisted the vote remained too close to call
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| Nov.6 |
HP |
Founder family oppose Compaq deal |
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| Sep.3 |
HP |
HP buying Compaq for $25 billion
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