Report: Google to Acquire Israeli Mapping Startup for $1.3B, Facebook Also Interested
Google Inc. could acquire Israeli mapping startup Waze for $1.3 billion amid competing bids for the company, Reuters reported Monday. Citing an Israeli newspaper, Ari Rabinovitch writes Facebook Inc. also wants to buy Waze and has offered $1 billion as the social media aims to grow its customer base. Google negotiated with the startup in [...]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a redesigned news feed intended to give users an interface he termed a personalized newspaper, Information Week reports. Zuckerberg said the social networking site is also aiming to open new opportunities to offer different kinds of ads as well, Thomas Claburn writes. Chris Cox, Facebook vice president of products, [...]
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Google on Buying Spree, Acquired 79 Companies Last Year, Lawrence Lenihan Comments
September 19, 2012 No CommentIn 2011, Google acquired 25 companies or 79 total if you count the startups it bought for intellectual property rights or patents, according to The Verge. Not only does Google rapidly buy smaller tech firms but it has an astounding track record of integrating employees of former startups into the company according to the [...]
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Google has acquired a Redwood City, Calif.-based social media marketing company with the goal of expanding opportunities for customers to engage on all platforms, Computerworld reports. According to John Ribiero’s article, Google’s buy of Wildfire is one of several transactions in the technology industry targeted towards social media. Within the last three months, Oracle has [...]
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden joined thousands of teachers, students, and executives in a pep rally last week to show support of President Obama’s engineering campaign, Bolden wrote on the White House blog. The Day of Engineering pep rally occurred at Georgia Tech and promoted education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The White [...]
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The U.S. has closed its embassy in Syria but could still use social media to communicate with Syrians, NextGov reports. Experts told NextGov that State Department officials could still interact with Syrian activists and citizens on Facebook or Twitter. The department has not confirmed plans to conduct a virtual embassy, similar to what was done [...]
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Salesforce, Rypple Aim to Create a Social Enterprise to Promote Agency Goals
December 20, 2011 No CommentLast week, Salesforce.com announced a social networking acquisition that has been long in the making, according to John Wookey, executive vice president of advanced applications. The company said it will acquire Rypple, a cloud-based performance management services provider, and bring on all of Rypple’s staff and offerings. Wookey will run Rypple’s operations, which Salesforce will rename [...]
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