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Rakuten to Acquire Kobo for US $315 million

Rakuten has move into the eReader marketplace with the announcement that it will acquire the Canadian spin-out company, Kobo for $315 million in cash. The Toronto based headquarters, management team…

November 9, 2011No CommentRead More

Google Announces Acquisition of Motorola, Attacks Microsoft and Apple

US markets bounced on the news on Monday 15th August 2011 that Google is to acquire Motorola Mobility. Larry Page, CEO of Google, outlined how the complete adoption of Google’s…

August 16, 2011No CommentRead More

Glu Mobile Inc. Acquires Griptonite Games and Blammo Games

Glu Mobile Inc. has acquired Griptonite Games and Blammo Games to augment its offerings of social games for handheld devices such as smartphones and tablets. The company has 200 employees…

August 3, 2011No CommentRead More

GE Capital Acquires Credit Agricole Commercial Finance UK

GE Capital has acquired Credit Agricole Commercial Finance UK – formerly known as Eurofactor UK Ltd. The accounts receivable financing business lent over £3 billion through invoice financing to UK…

August 3, 2011No CommentRead More

Electronic Arts to Buy PopCap Games for $750 Million

EA has moved to acquire PopCap Games, which includes the popular games Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled and Zuma. The workers at the studio and the intellectual property owned by the…

July 13, 2011No CommentRead More

US Olympic Team to Receive Funds from Nutrition Bar Sales

PR*Bar has signed a licensing agreement with the United States Olympic Committee to create a line of Team USA nutrition bars. Some of the profit from the sales of the…

May 12, 2011No CommentRead More

Microsoft’s $8.5 Billion Purchase of Skype “a ringing endorsement of the communications services market”

Devita Saraf, the CEO of Vu TelePresence, has branded the $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype by Microsoft “a ringing endorsement of the communications services market”: “This acquisition as well as…

May 11, 2011No CommentRead More

EA Strengthens Mobile Games Business with Firemint Purchase

Electronic Arts, Inc. has strengthened its business in mobile gaming with the acquisition of Firemint due to complete within four weeks. Barry Cottle, Executive Vice President and General Manger of…

May 4, 2011No CommentRead More

Business: SGX Bid for Australian Securities Exchange “Not in the National Interest”

Wayne Swan MP has ruled that the SGX bid for ASX Ltd was “not in the national interest”. In his statement, released on 8th April 2011, the Treasurer and Deputy…

April 11, 2011No CommentRead More

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