Obsorb Acquired By MetaLab; First Arch Grants Successful Exit

By Edward Domain April 25, 2013

St. Louis startup Obsorb has been acquired by Vancouver, B.C. interface design company MetaLab. ...

Geoloqi Becomes Esri Research and Development Center in Portland Following Acquisition

By Techli Team October 16, 2012

Geographic information systems giant Esri announced this week that it has acquired Portland-based...

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IBM buys Kenexa for $1.3 Billion, Will Expand Operations In Nebraska Office

By Techli Team August 28, 2012

The 400 Kenexa employees who work in the Lincoln, Nebraska office of the Pennsylvania-based company...

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Georgia Startup RappidApp Acquired By SignUp4 To Expand Mobile Offerings

By Techli Team August 9, 2012

Savannah, Georgia’s mobile app creation startup RappidApp announced that it has been acquired by...

Decision Engine Startup Sortable Acquired By Rebellion Media

By Techli Team July 17, 2012

Sortable, the Google search of products, has been acquired by Rebellion Media for an undisclosed...

Oracle And Salesforce Race To Dominate The Social Enterprise Cloud

By Techli Team July 13, 2012

For Oracle, 2012 is the year of social. The company announced this week that it is in talks to...

Breaking News: Microsoft Announces Yammer Acquisition For $1.2B

By Techli Team June 25, 2012

After weeks of rumors, Microsoft  just confirmed it is acquiring the enterprise social network...

SinglePlatform Acquired By Constant Contact For $100 Million

By Corey Cummings June 14, 2012

New York startup SinglePlatform has been acquired this week by Constant Contact Inc, a marketing...

Google Steps Up Microsoft Rivalry With Quickoffice Acquisition

By Jon Christian June 6, 2012

In a move that could represent a gauntlet in a battle for mobile office suite share between Google...

Google Plus Gobbles Up Google Places, In Ongoing Social Push

By Jon Christian June 2, 2012

Google announced Wednesday that Google Places will be incorporated into the company's social...

Facebook “Acquihires” Photo-Sharing Site Lightbox To Bolster Its Mobile Team

By Jason Rowley May 18, 2012

Lightbox, the rather beautiful photo sharing startup, announced on its company blog that the team...

FTC Settles Myspace Privacy Violations… Wait, Myspace Still Exists?

By Jon Christian May 9, 2012

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission announced that social network Myspace has agreed to settle...

LinkedIn Announces $119 Million SlideShare Acquisition

By Techli Team May 4, 2012

LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, just announced that the company will acquire...

Google Actually Sells Something – And It’s Sketchup, To Trimble

By Jon Christian April 27, 2012

Google is known for making and buying things, so there was some surprise when the company announced...

Twitter Acquires Hotspots.io To Beef Up Its “Revenue Engineering Team”

By Jason Rowley April 16, 2012

Hotspots.io, a small startup founded by Matt Huang, Alexander Spicer and Ashutosh Singhal aims to...