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VMWARE buys into mobile — AMAZON mulled pay-TV offering — BOTNET strikes again — FACEBOOK’s meta-stalker — Feds grill Google GLASS moviegoer

January 22, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

GOOGLE buys your home, Droid moves in — iOS catches up to Windows installs — MESSAGING app use triples — 1 in 10K apps successful

January 14, 2014 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

IBM Buys Aspera, A File Transfer Company That Counts Apple And Netflix As Customers

IBM is acquiring Aspera, a bootstrapped file transfer company that counts media companies, SaaS providers and large enterprises as customers. Aspera has many enterprise use cases, including sending large amounts of genome data and feature-length movies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Aspera’s software is built on “fasp,” its patented file transfer technology. Fasp […]

Apple buys Topsy for at least $200 million, gaining deep access to Twitter

Apple has acquired Topsy, a social media analytics company that analyzes a range of data from Twitter, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. Tweet This Post

GOOGLE expands Cloud, cuts price — APPLE buys Twitter fire hose — MICROSOFT’s grand cross-OS plan — SALESFORCE capitulates — U.S. students 36th in MATH

December 3, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

CenturyLink Buys Tier 3, The Infrastructure, Platform And Advanced Cloud Management Provider

CenturyLink has acquired Tier 3, the Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform and advanced cloud management company. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed. Tier 3 has $16.5 million in investment from Intel Capital, Ignition Partners and Madrone Venture Group. It was the second cloud services acquisition for CenturyLink in the past year. In June, […]

SALESFORCE goes all API crazy — BITCOIN = Big Coin, breaks $600 — APPLE buys KINECT 3D tech — The Kids Aren’t Always All Right

November 18, 2013 06:00 PST | 09:00 EST | 14:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Ingram Micro Buys Shipwire, The Cloud Logistics And Supply Chain Management Platform

Ingram Micro has acquired Palo Alto-based Shipwire, the cloud logistics and supply chain management SaaS provider. The acquisition price was not disclosed. Shipwire has established itself as one of the leading cloud logistics platforms for retailers and e-commerce companies. It also provides shipping and developer tools. For its part, Ingram Micro is a well-known for […]

Oracle Buys Compendium, A Content Marketing Startup, To Build Up Its Arsenal Against Salesforce

On the heels of Oracle‘s $871 million acquisition of Eloqua in December 2012, today the CRM giant is sailing into another acquisition in the cloud-based marketing space. It has bought Compendium, a six-year-old startup that, out of Indianapolis and largely bootstrapped, has managed to build up a business with a number of large clients including CVENT, […]

E-Loan Specialist Wonga Buys BillPay, The PayPal Of Germany, To Move Deeper Into Payments

Wonga is a UK-based startup best known for its online payday loan services, but today the company made a move that could see it not only extending across to other markets in Europe but also into other services like payments: the company today is announcing the acquisition of BillPay, known as the “PayPal of Germany”. […]