On Wednesday, Reddit announced that they acquired Alien Blue, the most downloaded iOS Reddit client. Though Reddit did not disclose any of the specific terms of the deal, Alien Blue's lead developer, Jase Morrissey, will be joining the Reddit team. Jase made a brief statement on the move: G'day folks! I'm Jase, and I'm absolutely thrilled [...]
Google Acquires Songza On Tuesday, Google announced that it had acquired Songza. Songza, if you haven't heard of them, offer a unique take on music streaming. Rather than using algorithms and similar artist mash-ups, Songza offers human curated playlists, based on various factors like time of the day, or mood, or location. It is a [...]
Various reliable news sources are reporting that Apple is in the midst of their biggest acquisitions ever. The Financial Times broke the story around 2pm today that Apple is planning on buying Beats By Dre the audio streaming service and hardware company founded in partnership by Dr. Dre, record label executive Jimmy Iovine and originally, [...]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and VP of Microsoft Devices Group Stephen Elop On Friday, Microsoft completed the acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business. This acquisition brings several key components from Nokia into Microsoft: "Microsoft acquires Nokia’s smartphone and mobile phone businesses, its design team, most of its manufacturing and assembly facilities and [...]
The public response to the news that Facebook would be acquiring Oculus for $2 billion has been, overwhelmingly, negative. So negative, in-fact, that many members of the Oculus team have been receiving death threats over the acquisition. This broadness of the negative sentiment came as a surprise to the Oculus team. In an interview with GameInformer, Oculus Vice President of Product Nate Mitchell noted that the company expected their existing user base to be upset, but not the general public.
As you have no doubt heard, on Tuesday March 25, Facebook announced plans to by Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The response from the tech community at-large has been mixed. Rather than offer any sort of opinion or take on the acquisition, it seems prudent to take a step back, and look at what happened and what both parties are saying.
Numerous outlets reported Sunday that Apple has acquired Israeli tech company PrimeSense for $345 million. Steven Scheer, a Jerusalem based reporter for Reuters reported that this was Apple's second Israeli startup acquisition, with Anobit being it's first. Many hard core tech enthusiasts and gamers know that PrimeSense is the company behind the 3d technology found [...]
The acquisition makes a lot of sense for LiveQoS on many different levels. In the press release, Martin Horne, CEO of LiveQoS, notes that, "Much like Onavo – on the consumer side – offers compression for Facebook, Openera enables LiveQoS to offer compression to the mobile business user in addition to the speed and security we already offer."
First off if you're not listening to the 500 startups weekly podcast you're doing it wrong. Each week 500 Startups Resident Marketing Manager and Baker, Mark Saldana sits down with 500 startups founders, mentors, investors and others in their network for a 1:1 look at the important things about starting up. In episode 22 Saldana [...]
