Samsung May Acquire RIM, Maker Of BlackBerry Says Report

UPDATE: Samsung came out and said that they never considered acquiring RIM nor had any interest. While Android and iPhone continue to do incredibly well, RIM has had some issues with growing their BlackBerry line of smartphones. A ... continue

Alibaba CEO Says He Would Like To Buy Yahoo

Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. says he's very interested at the prospect of acquiring internet company Yahoo, Inc. When speaking at Standford University on Friday Alibaba's CEO told the audience that buying ... continue

Some employees not so happy over Microsoft’s Skype purchase

Leading up to the big announcement today about Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5 Billion Steve Ballmer sent out the obligatory email to all of the company's employees. The email first showed up on Mary Jo Foley's blog and then ... continue

NO MORE RUMOR: AOL buys TechCrunch [VIDEO]

The news is out all over the tech blogosphere - Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL took the stage of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference today to announce that AOL has bought Techcrunch, and all its media properties. Of course ... continue

HOT RUMOR: AOL to buy TechCrunch – in late stages

This just flashed up on GigaOM and must be placed strongly in the rumor column but Om Malik, who I have a great respect for, is reporting that while still at a delicate stage the deal that ... continue

Could Oracle make a play for HP?

I ran across this interesting post by Tom Foremski at Silicon Valley Watcher where he puts forward the idea that Oracle could possibly be making a play to acquire HP. Now given how right on Tom was ... continue

Now this is how acquisition videos should be done

Earlier I shared the news that Amazon had decided to expand its portfolio of subsidiary companies by acquiring woot! Now as interesting, or not, as that news might have been nothing beats being told the same thing by ... continue

BREAKING: woot gets snapped up by Amazon

For those of you who don't know who or what woot! is then you've been missing one of the best sites on t he web to get daily deals on just about anything. The premise of the ... continue

BREAKING NEWS: HP purchase Palm for $1.2 Billion

Well it looks like the question as to the fate of Palm has been answered if the news just posted by The New York Times is any indication. It is being reported by DealBook that Hewlitt-Packard has entered ... continue

Twitter buys Tweetie making line in the sand to developers even bigger

Earlier today the big Twitter news was the fact that the new official Twitter app for the Blackberry had been written by Twitter itself which was contrary to the belief that Blackberry had created it. Then came the ... continue

Seesmic to be your one-stop Social Media client

When Seesmic first started out so many Internet years ago it was a video version of Twitter and Facebook. Loic LeMeur believed back then that there would be a market for a video based social network the ... continue

Google rumor mill – Brightcove next target

I guess all that money is starting to burn a hole in Google’s pockets because not only do we get word today that they’ve snapped up reCaptcha but they may have also set their ... continue

Friendfeed and some unanswered questions

As summer slowly heads into fall so to will Friendfeed slowly disappear into the bowels of Facebook and for all the people who invested so much of their rime and energy into making Friendfeed ... continue

Amazon and Zappos – let’s see how high we can pile the crap

I first heard about the Amazon acquisition of Zappos, the web’s favorite online shoe store, through Twitter and the exclamations that went along with it. One’s like “Wow!”, or “Didn’t see that one coming” ... continue

Splashpress Media buys Twitter Buttons

Before I go running screaming into night from this deluge of Twitter posts I thought I would pass this little tidbit on to you all – after all why should I suffer alone. It ... continue

Akamai acquires acerno for $95 million in cold cash

Akamai Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire acerno for approximately $95 million in cash. The acquisition of acerno, a unique online co‐operative of shopping and purchase data for enabling more relevant online advertising, is expected to ... continue