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Yahoo |
Tumblr 'will boost Yahoo revenue' 
| Yahoo says its $1.1bn purchase of blogging platform Tumblr will boost its revenue as soon as 2014 | |
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| Sun. |
Yahoo |
Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'| Yahoo's board has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1bn. The deal was a foregone conclusion | |
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| Fri. |
Yahoo |
Report: Yahoo nearing $1.1B acquisition of Tumblr Yahoo may be on the verge of closing its biggest acquisition during the reign of CEO Marissa Mayer as she tries to attract more traffic and ...
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| Feb.4 |
Oracle |
Oracle buying Acme Packet for $2.1 billion
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| Nov.20 |
HP |
HP: Deception behind $8.8 billion charge |
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| Nov.19 |
Cisco |
Cisco to buy Meraki for $1.2 billion |
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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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| Mar.15 |
Cisco |
Cisco to buy NDS for $5 billion |
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| Feb.13 |
Google |
Google Motorola bid wins approval |
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| Feb.9 |
Dublin |
Oracle paying $1.9 B for Taleo's HR software
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| Dec.9 |
Sunnyvale |
Blue Coat to be taken private for $1.3B |
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| Nov.23 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft agreed to scrutinize Yahoo |
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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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| Jul.15 |
Oakland |
Icahn makes $10.2B offer for Clorox |
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| May.9 |
eBay |
Microsoft near deal to buy Skype |
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| May.7 |
Applied Materials |
Applied Materials buying Varian |
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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. National Semiconductor shareholders will get $25 a share in the all-cash transa... | |
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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.28 |
San Francisco |
AOL buying TechCrunch |
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| Sep.24 |
Oracle |
Oracle looks for chipmakers to acquire |
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| Sep.22 |
San Francisco |
Sharp acquires solar developer Recurrent |
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| Sep.12 |
HP |
HP Buying ArcSight For $1.5B |
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| Sep.2 |
Fremont |
Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP Dell won't match HP's offer to pay $33 per share, or about $2.07 billion, after 3Par it had received Dell's revised offer of $32 per share
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| Aug.26 |
HP |
HP blasts back with new bid for 3Par |
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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 Tesla Motors Inc. expects to pay about $42 million for a shuttered factory where the company plans to team with Toyota to build electric car...
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| Apr.28 |
Palm |
HP To Acquire Palm For About $1.4 B The deal will see HP pay $5.70 for every Palm common share. Counting Palm's cash and debt, HP's offer values the company at $1.2 billion
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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
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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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| Mar.11 |
Google |
Google closes $3.1 billion DoubleClick deal |
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| Mar.5 |
Yahoo |
Board meeting postponed to stave off bid |
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| Feb.11 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft's takeover
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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.29 |
Google |
FTC reviews into Google-DoubleClick deal |
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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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| Dec.4 |
Milpitas |
LSI Logic to acquire Agere for $4 billion |
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| Oct.31 |
Google |
Google Acquires Wiki Tool Developer |
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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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| Jul.24 |
AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices To Acquire ATI |
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| May.25 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, eBay to join forces in partnership |
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| Apr.26 |
SJ Mercury News |
MediaNews to buy Merc, CoCo Times |
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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.18 |
Cisco |
Cisco to acquire Scientific-Atlanta for $7b |
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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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| Apr.4 |
Chevron |
ChevronTexaco buying Unocal |
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| Mar.21 |
Oakland |
Diller's Co. Buying Ask Jeeves for $1.85B |
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| Jan.7 |
Oracle |
Oracle completes PeopleSoft acquisition |
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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.19 |
Pleasanton |
PeopleSoft shareholders back Oracle bid |
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| Nov.3 |
Napa |
Constellation to buy Mondavi in $1b deal |
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| Nov.1 |
Oracle |
Oracle boosts bid for PeopleSoft |
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| Sep.9 |
Oracle |
Bid to block PeopleSoft takeover rejected |
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| Jun.21 |
Oracle |
9 takeover targets before PeopleSoft |
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| May.26 |
Pleasanton |
PeopleSoft spurns Oracle bid for 4th time |
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| Feb.10 |
Oracle |
DOJ recommends blocking PeopleSoft bid |
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| Jun.6 |
Oracle |
Oracle offers $5.1 billion for PeopleSoft Software maker is in a hostile takeover attempt aimed at eliminating one of its competitors for $16 per share
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| Dec.23 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo Buys Inktomi |
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| Dec.6 |
Cupertino |
IBM to Buy Rational Software |
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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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