Category Archives: acquisitions
Groupon Buys Obtiva To Boost Engineering Team
Groupon, the ready-to-IPO daily deals juggernaut, has announced its acquisition of Obtiva, a Chicago-based Ruby on Rails software development fi… Continue reading
ThreeWords.me Acquired by Domain Name Czar
Mark Bao, creator of viral vanity app ThreeWords.me, has just sold his site and service to Kevin Ham, we’ve learned. Ham is a dot-com mogul whose portfolio includes around $300 million worth of domain names. Billed as “the man who owns the Internet,” Ham owns domains such as God.com and Satan.com and routinely pays six-figure […] Continue reading
Another Fan Page Tool Gets a Boost — Will Facebook Grow Into a Place For Bands?
In the wake of MySpace’s massive wave of layoffs, yet another fan management tool for bands has received a boost. Damntheradio (a platform for creating Facebook fan pages), was just acquired by FanBridge, who recently secured $2 million in Series A funding. FanBridge, a service that helps musicians grow, track and engage their fanbase, decided […] Continue reading
Appcelerator Acquires Web App IDE Aptana
Appcelerator, a platform for mobile and web development, has just announced its acquisition of Aptana, an integrated development environment (ID… Continue reading