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Latest in mergers and acquisitions from the field of Information Technology.
Dell to enter in service business,acquires Perot System for about $3.9B
One of the most popular computer hardware brand over the world, “Dell” has snapped up government IT contractor Perot Systems for $3.9 billion in cash, the companies said today. Perot will become a Dell services unit. All Right, people. now this is what i call news. Dell is being staying away from the limelight for quite... »
Google Acquires ReCaptcha to fight spam
My My My, is there a war going on between APPLE and GOOGLE to be the talk of the town? or something. I don’t seem to get over the fact that yesterday it was APPLE the talk of the town, and with two latest news including an Acquisition and a new stable release of their... »
Intuit to buy Mint, to make space for INTUIT 2.0?
So here is a news. INTUIT, A software company that develops financial and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants and individuals headquartered in Mountain View California,has agreed to acquire Mint, a San Francisco-based provider of online personal money management solutions.TechCrunch reported it at a price of approximately $170 million. Founded in 2007,... »
Its official – Myspace acquired iLike
It is now official, social networking giant Myspace completed the acquisition of the music sharing networking start up, ILike today itself. As reported earlier last night in Rumor has it, on WEBKETU itself. The $20 million agreement to purchase iLike confirmed rumors that had circulated this week and was the first play that new CEO... »
Facebook to Acquire social network start up FriendFeed
okay, so this news came as a surprise to a many around that Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, said it will buy FriendFeed, netting a group of prized ex-Google engineers in the fast-growing Internet business. It was quite obvious, as much lesser known FriendFeed (ofcourse if you are not a social networking enthusiast)... »
Google to Acquire On2 Technologies
Well i was discussing a research about the role of multimedia sharing sites like dailymotion,justin.tv,youtube etc. and indeed the most important point to discuss was “Bandwidth Issue”. As users are multiplying like anything every other day and as well as Data is loaded onto the Servers, how much optimization of data and servers is... »
HCL Acquires Data Center in the US
HCL America has acquired a 35,000 square foot data center in Parsippany, New Jersey from a Fortune 500 company. The deal provides HCL America, a division on Indian IT services company HCL Technologies, with additional data center space to house its “near-shore” data center services, including colocation computing, business continuity and mainframe management service. HCL’s... »
Yahoo Acquires Xoopit
Does it smell like Jealousy or something? Keeping in mind the Spirit of professionalism and corporate mind culture.Yahoo signed the agreement to acquire Xoopit on Wednesday, according to a posting on the Yahoo corporate blog. The team behind the Xoopit social photo management service, first developed as an add-on for Google’s Gmail, are joining rival... »
Oracle Buys a data-integration Software Firm
Keeping in mind, Oracle has spent more than $34 billion buying about three dozen companies over the past five years.This come as no surprise but a sense of competition in the field of data integration with players like IBM and Informatica. Oracle announced Thursday that it’s buying San Francisco-based GoldenGate Software, a provider of real-time... »

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