Trendsactions http://www.trendsactions.com Following the acquisitions of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo: acquired companies portfolios by market, time and money invested. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:47:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Aardvark http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=361 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=361#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:46:32 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=361 Acquisition date: 02/12/2010
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Price: $50M
Profile: Aardvark is social search: ask any question and Aardvark will discover the perfect person in your network to answer in minutes.  Aardvark launched a private beta in March, 2009, and has been growing rapidly since.  People use Aardvark via vark.com, the Aardvark iPhone App, IM and email. Aardvark will be available through Google Labs, and will remain fully operational and completely free.

]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=361 Sentillion http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=355 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=355#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:01:15 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=355 Acquisition date: 11/09/2009
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Price: undisclosed
Profile: Sentillion specializes in software for the healthcare industry. Combining Sentillion’s products with Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) will make it easier for healthcare professionals to deliver better patient care by streamlining access to multiple IT applications and patient data.

]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=355 AppJet http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=351 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=351#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:13:22 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=351 Acquisition date: 12/4/2009
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Price: Undisclosed
Profile: AppJet is a small startup that builds the popular real time collaboration tool EtherPad. EtherPad provides improvements to Google Docs: multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, with all changes instantly reflected on everyone’s screen. EtherPad’s team will join Wave team.

]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=351 Teracent http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=346 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=346#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:42:37 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=346 Acquisition date: 11/23/2009
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Price: Undisclosed
Profile: Teracent developed machine learning algorithms which can pick and choose from thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time — tweaking images, products, messages or colors. These elements can be optimized depending on factors like geographic location, language, the content of the website, the time of day or the past performance of different ads.

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]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=346 Gizmo5 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=342 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=342#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:33:15 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=342 Acquisition date: 11/9/2009
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Price: $30M
Profile: Gizmo5 is a provider of a SIP-based service. Their application functions like Skype, supporting IM and VoIP calls.
The deal will enable Google to offer a quality VoIP offering. Google has no endpoint for calls. Gizmo5, (already integrated with Google Voice), is a soft phone end point for Google phone users. It will enable users to make and receive calls to their Google Voice phone number from their computer.

]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=342 Teamprise http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=339 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=339#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:07:53 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=339 Acquisition date: 11/09/2009
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Price: undisclosed
Profile: Teamprise-related assets of SourceGear LLC enable developers using the Eclipse IDE or operating on multiple operating systems, including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Development organizations will benefit from increased integration in heterogeneous environments, as well as reduced time and complexity associated with application development tasks.

Functionality from the Teamprise Client Suite will be integrated into the Visual Studio product line beginning with Visual Studio 2010.

Teamprise is a division of SourceGear focused on creating value-added products for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.  SourceGear LLC is a leading provider of solutions for software developers using Microsoft tools and platforms. 

]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=339 AdMob http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=331 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=331#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:21:26 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=331 Acquisition date: 11/09/2009
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Price: $750 million.
Profile: AdMob is a mobile display ad technology provider.  Google reports that this acquisition will enhance Google’s existing expertise and technology in mobile advertising. Moreover, it will introduce innovation and competition to mobile advertising.  The deal is expected to lead to more effective tools for creating, serving, and analyzing emerging mobile ads formats.

]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=331 reCAPTCHA http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=327 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=327#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:37:20 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=327

Acquisition date: 09/16/2009
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Price: undisclosed
Profile: reCAPTCHA provides technology that protects more than 100,000 websites from spam and fraud. The words in many of the CAPTCHAs provided by reCAPTCHA come from scanned archival newspapers and old books. Computers find it hard to recognize these words because the ink and paper have degraded over time, but by typing them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds teach computers to read the scanned text.

reCAPTCHA’s unique technology improves the process that converts scanned images into plain text, (Optical Character Recognition: OCR). This technology also powers large scale text scanning projects like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. Having the text version of documents is important because plain text can be searched, easily rendered on mobile devices and displayed to visually impaired users. Applying the technology within Google will not only increase fraud and spam protection for Google products but will also improve Google’s books and newspaper scanning process.

]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=327 Maktoob.com http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=314 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=314#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:27:04 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=314 Acquisition date: 08/25/2009
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Price: Undisclosed
Profile: Maktoob.com, a Dubai-based company, is the leading online community in the Arab world, with more than 16.5 million unique users. While Internet usage in the Middle East has grown more than tenfold since 2000, most markets are still in the early stages of adoption. According to the World Bank, there are more than 320 million Arabic speakers worldwide, while less than one per cent of all online content is in Arabic. “This acquisition will accelerate Yahoo!’s strategy of expanding in high-growth emerging markets where we believe Yahoo has unparalleled opportunity to become the destination of choice for consumers,” Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said.

]]> http://www.trendsactions.com/?feed=rss2&p=314 On2 Technologies http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=309 http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=309#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:04:26 +0000 rumorist http://www.trendsactions.com/?p=309 Acquisition date: 08/5/2009
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Price: $106.5M
Profile: On2 creates advanced video compression technologies (designs video codec technology) that power the video in today’s leading desktop and mobile applications and devices. On2 customers include Adobe, Skype, Nokia, Infineon, Sun Microsystems, Mediatek, Sony, Brightcove, and Move Networks. On2 Technologies is headquartered in Clifton Park, NY USA.

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