St. Louis startup Obsorb has been acquired by Vancouver, B.C. interface design company MetaLab. Obsorb was working with MetaLab on a joint project when both companies realzied acquisition made more.
Geographic information systems giant Esri announced this week that it has acquired Portland-based location-based services startup Geoloqi. The terms of the deal are not available to the public.
The 400 Kenexa employees who work in the Lincoln, Nebraska office of the Pennsylvania-based company are now IBM employees thanks to yesterday’s announcement IBM has purchased Kenexa for $1.3 billion.
Savannah, Georgia’s mobile app creation startup RappidApp announced that it has been acquired by SignUp4, a meeting management software company.
Rebellion Media acquired Sortable, the Google search of products, for an undisclosed sum. The company’s plans for the startup are a continuation of a larger trend in content monetization.
For Oracle, 2012 is the year of social. The company announced this week that it is in talks to acquire social media development platform Involver.
After weeks of rumors, Microsoft just confirmed it is acquiring the enterprise social network Yammer for $1.2 billion in cash.
New World Ventures portfolio company SinglePlatform has been acquired this week by Constant Contact Inc, a marketing firm specializing in web content. The startup has been acquired for a total sale price of $100 million.
In a move that could represent a gauntlet in a battle for mobile office suite share between Google and Microsoft, the former company acquired document, presentation and spreadsheet editor Quickoffice, which is available for most smartphone platforms.
Google Places is being incorporated into Google Plus — in hopes, perhaps, of enticing more users to join and actually use the fledgling social initiative.
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