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

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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

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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

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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 (IDContinue reading

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