With the recent announcement of Q1 earnings, LinkedIn also announced that it has acquired SlideShare, a professional content sharing community. The transaction...

We reported yesterday that a recent hefty $1 billion Facebook newly acquired Instagram deal where “surprising” is that the social giant’s Mark Zuckerberg kept board out of negotiations. The negotiation period was a mere weekend at Mark Zuckerberg’s house, where he and Kevin Systrom. The Wall Street Journal reported that Zuckerberg informed Facebook’s board of...

Reuters reports that Toshiba is willing to buy IBM point-of-sale terminal business, which includes cash registers. With this, Toshiba aimed at expanding...

IBM has announced another analytics software company acquisition called as Varicent. The company is based in Toronto, Varicent specializes in using the power of computing to analyze and understand sales performance and compensation. Varicent makes software that’s intended to automatically collect and analyze sales data not only from a company’s finance and sales operations,...

Earlier last week, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the social giant had acquired photo-sharing service Instgagram for $1 billion – the...

The social giant only a few days ago agreed to acquire photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion – yes the amount is correct and the announcement was made by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg itself. The deal is a combination of cash and shares of Facebook, but today we’ve got some piece of information on how the deal came to light. Citing the “anonymous” sources,...

The social giant has agreed to acquire photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion – yes the amount is correct and the announcement was made by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg itself. The deal is a combination of cash and shares of Facebook. Zuckerberg says that Instagram will be built and grown “independently” and that its integration with other services...

Dell which once called itself as “We’re no longer PC company, we are an IT company” acquired third company in the recent days. The company earlier acquired Sonic Wall followed by a cloud computing company Wyse and now it has acquired Make Technologies. Make Technologies is a leading global provider of application modernization software and services that reduce the...

Dell announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop virtualization offerings. The addition of Wyse will expand Dell’s desktop virtualization capabilities and provide new solutions and services opportunities for the full range of Dell’s enterprise offerings. “The...

The world’s largest social networking giant Facebook has acquired around 750 patents from IBM in its latest move, covering various “software and networking” technologies patents, according to Bloomberg. Facebook so far owes 60 US patents and adding this 750 makes its portfolio of around 810 patents in total. The acquisition which includes at least 56 issued patents...