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Mobile phone and wireless services provider Alltel Corp. on Sunday agreed to a US$27.5 billion buyout, a deal likely to spur more such acquisitions in North America. The Little Rock, Arkansas company, which serves 12 million mobile phone subscribers in 35 states, signed a deal to be bought by TPG Capital LLP and the private […]

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it will buy aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion, paying an 85 percent premium to snap up one of the last large independent companies in a consolidating Web advertising market. In announcing its biggest acquisition ever, Microsoft has made its most aggressive move to date in trying to narrow the gap […]

Leading online retailer Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it has acquired www.dpreview.com, the web’s most comprehensive site for digital camera information and reviews. Founded in 1998 by Phil Askey, dpreview.com provides unbiased reviews and original content regarding the latest in digital cameras, and offers a host of features and forums designed to make […]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shares of Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research soared as much as 19 percent to their highest level in nearly a year on Friday after two newspaper reports said the company and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research were in preliminary merger talks to take on common foe Google Inc. (GOOG.O: […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - NETGEAR, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, today announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Infrant Technologies, Inc.
Founded in March 2001 and based in Fremont, California, Infrant is dedicated to bringing enterprise-level storage technology to small businesses and professional home users at […]

Microsoft has announced plans to buy ScreenTonic, a company that specializes in delivering localized ads to mobile devices, for an undisclosed sum. ScreenTonic, based in Paris and founded in 2001, will become part of Microsoft’s Digital Advertising Solutions group, created in September 2006 to sell advertising across its devices such as the Xbox gaming system […]

Yahoo Inc. will buy the remainder of online advertising exchange Right Media for $680 million in stock and cash, Yahoo said on Monday. The portal giant bought a 20 percent stake of Right Media in October for $45 million and now plans to acquire the remaining 80 percent, it said.
Right Media offers advertisers and sellers […]

Internal conflicts often happen in finance, when investment banks find themselves advising both sides in a merger. And it happens in agribusiness, energy and other industries where giant companies with fingers in many pies are both buyers and sellers of the same commodity. But it is particularly common in technology and media.
The DoubleClick deal has […]

Less than one week after disclosing a $611 million first-quarter loss, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday said it hopes to raise up to $2.2 billion through the sale of convertible notes to institutional investors. AMD will offer an initial $1.8 billion in convertible notes and will offer buyers an option to purchase an […]

Google Inc. has bought Marratech AB, a Stockholm-based developer of video conferencing software, taking it further into the sphere of collaborative work tools. Marratech will continue to support its customers and resellers following the acquisition, it said on Thursday. Google said Marratech’s engineers will remain in Sweden and continue to develop the desktop conferencing […]