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JULY 19, 2012

According to the Jared Spataro Senior Director, Office Division, Microsoft in a blog post the firm had met all the requirements regarding the acquisition. He says,” all closing conditions for Microsoft’s acquisition of Yammer have been met, and the deal is completed”. Yammer was launched in 2008 and raised $142 million then.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

According to the United States Attorney''s Office for the Central District of California, Mazzo allegedly shared non-public information with former professional baseball player Douglas DeCinces and two associates, which was used to trade stock of AMO before the company''s acquisition by Abbott Laboratories. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Pluck, which is based in Austin, was founded in 2003, and had been acquired by Demand Media in 2008 in a deal worth $56.3M. demand media pluck merger acquisition social software' Financial details of the sale were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2013

The firm was founded in 2008. xpenser expense management software travel tande coupa merger acquisition evonexus' The firm was one of the companies which had been part of the EvoNexus incubator. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Shire said the acquisition will enhance its late stage pipeline. since 2008. meritage pharma merger acquisition biopharmaceuticals shire esophagitis eosinophilic lifescience exit' Meritage Pharma was venture backed by Domain Associates, Latterell Venture Partners, and Vertical Group, and had raised north of $33.5M READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

The company had made two prior IPO attempts, the last in November of last year; the company withdrew that IPO without citing reasons; the company had also filed for an IPO back in 2008, but dropped those plans after the IPO market turned sour. autogenomics merger acquisition lifescience molecular medicine exit' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 29, 2011

Irvine-based Specific Media has recruited an investment banker to head up its business development efforts, fresh off its acquisition of onetime social networking king MySpace. Schopen was overseeing merger and acquisition transactions, initial and secondary public offerings, and private capital raises at Piper Jaffray.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

The price of two of Demand Media's acquisitions, Pluck , and The Daily Plate , have both been made public with the firm's IPO filing Friday evening. Demand Acquired Pluck in March of 2008, and The Daily Plate in January of 2008. Financial terms of those acquisitions had not been announced by the firm previously.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Recargo is headed by Brian Kariger, who previously headed up Lexico Publishing Group, the company ran Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com until its acquisition by IAC/Ask.com in 2008. Recargo's apps run on both iPhone and Android. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Financial termsd of the acquisition were not disclosed. NantWorks, the umbrella company for Soon Shiong's many ventures, already held a stack in OncoPlex, having first invested in the company in 2008. OncoPlex Diagnostics is absed in Rockville, Maryland, and provides services which helps with profiling the tumors of cancer patients.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

United Online bought FTD back in 2008. united online netzero spinoff merger acquisition internet access communications approval regulatory' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Siemer & Assocaites was founded by David Siemer in 2008. CEC said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Siemer & Associates. CEC said the move will be its first expansion outside of China.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. paidContent said that Guardian News & Media will take a minority stake in GigaOm as part of the acquisition; GNM was advised by Coady Deimar Partners in the deal. Guardian acquired ContentNext, the parent firm of paidContent, in 2008. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

United Online entered into the floral delivery market back in 2008. united online netzero spinoff merger acquisition' The spinout and split of the company--which has been in the works for over a year --ends a strange mashup of United Online''s Internet businesses (Classmates, NetZero, MyPoints, Juno, StayFriends) and floral delivery.

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MARCH 20, 2014

billion deal in 2008. margolis jeff trizetto software enterprise healthy android iphone health acquisition merger mindbloom welltok' Welltok''s CEO, Jeff Margolis, founded health management firm TriZetto in Orange County, and later sold TriZetto to Apax Partners in a huge, $1.4 READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Barr had joined HP as part of that firm's acquisition of LeftHand in October of 2008; he has also served at Spectra Logic, Phoenix Technologies, NCR and Marconi Instruments. Barr had headed up HP's 130-strong, LeftHand engineering organization. Nirvanix is a provider of cloud-based storage services. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

According to Quidel, the acquisition will broaden its current portfolio of diagnostic tests. Diagnostic Hybrids had revenues of $38M in 2008, and is based in Athens, Ohio. Tags: quidel diagnostic hybrids merger acquisition lifescience health.

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JULY 26, 2010

Crowdgather said the acquisition it its third major buy this year. Prior acquisition include ad agency ADISN and community forums firm FreeForums.org. Lefora was based in San Francisco, and was founded in 2008. Tags: lefora forum group discussion acquisition merger crowdgather.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Emotive had raised over $13.95M in funding, and had itself acquired venture-backed Sennari Entertainment, a developer of loyalty programs for the mobile market, in 2008. Tags: emotive communications mobile merger acquisition ringtone phone.

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MAY 24, 2010

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Padnos, whose last startup, BetterPPC, was acquired by Tsavo back in 2008, will remain an advisor to the company, and Audioo will become a separate division of AudioMicro. Tags: audiomicro audioo merger acquisition humor voicemail content sound music padnos. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Thing Labs was foundedin June of 2008, with funding from Jones, Polaris Venture Partners, SoftTech VC, and Jeff Clavier. This is at least the second time Jones has benefited from an AOL acquisition; his own startup, Userplane, was acquired by AOL in 2006.

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MAY 13, 2010

Internet Brands acquired Model Mayhem in August of 2008. Tags: acquisition merger waitt legal lawsuit mayhem model brands internet. Internet Brands has not released any statement about the lawsuit so far.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Machinima first started developing its gaming-related content back around 2008, and helped usher in a healthy investment market for multi-channel-networks, companies which aggregated multiple YouTube creators and channels into a single media company. Machinima had been acquired by Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2010

The phones are the result of Microsoft's acquisition of Danger Research, maker of the Sidekick, in 2008. Microsoft announced the launch of the two phones this morning, saying that the phones will be available exclusively through Verizon. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 1, 2010

which Kyocera acquired in 2008. Tags: kyocera merger acquisition wireless handset sanyo. According to the firm, it has combined San Diego-based Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Kyocera Communications, Inc., into a single firm, Kyocera Communications, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands announced its fourth quarter and fiscal 2008 results, reporting that--despite the recession--the firm saw an increase in its fourth quarter revenues of 8%, or $27.0M for 29 website related acquisitions during 2008. Tags: brands merger acquisition internet. versus $24.9M a year ago.

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JULY 24, 2009

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The firm said the acquisition will offer its clients customizable and managed SharePoint hosting, and that it would hire Avitiva's Chief Software Architect and team along with the buy. Neudesic has around 300 employees, and in 2008 had around $34.1M

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MARCH 19, 2010

Mickos was CEO of MySQL for seven years, and headed up the firm until its acquisition by Sun Microsystems--for $1 billion--in 2008. Eucalpytus develops open source, cloud software used to manage cloud deployment, and is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

The report, which gauges the optimism of venture investors in Silicon Valley, saying that there was a slight rise in confidence in Q4, due to rising public capital markets, a "burgeoning" market for acquisition, plus an increasing number of IPO exits for venture-backed firms.

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APRIL 9, 2020

From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides. new motorcycles sales didn’t weather the last recession very well, dropping 50% in 2008 and remaining stagnant since. In the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Allied Esports did not say why it decided to drop its public offering, however, the drop comes after a brutal week on Wall Street, where concerns over the growing coronavirus crisis sparked a sharp decline in stocks this week, the worst drop in the Dow since 2008. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The firm said the name change comes to "reflect the company's vision," and follows the recent merger of Marshal and 8e6 Technologies, as well as its acquisition of Avinti. Marshal and 8e6 merged in November of 2008; the merged firm acquired Avinti in April of this year.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

billion in exits in 2008. However, Dow Jones found that forty-four percent of 2009's liquidity came in the fourth quarter, when there were 86 acquisition worth a total of $7.3 The largest M&A deal for both the year and the quarter was the acquisition of Zappos.com by Amazon.com, for $847M. billion, from $26.1

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

For 2008, the firm had a net loss of almost $7M on revenues of $146.68M. Tags: reachlocal local advertising merger acquisition. Accoriding to ReachLocal, it had net income of $11.6M on revenues of $143M for the nine month ended September 30th. ReachLocal operates a service which helps small businesses place online advertising.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

billion in IPOs and M&A in 2008, making 2008 the worst year in terms of liquidity for the venture capital industry since 2003. billion generated via merger and acquisitions, and no IPOs. Tags: jones merger venturesource acquisition venture capital. Dow Jones found that there was only $24.1

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JANUARY 6, 2010

The move comes 16 months after the acquisition of Napster by Best Buy. Best Buy purchased Napster for $121M in September of 2008. According to Gorog, he will turn the reins of CEO over to Christopher Allen, who will serve as General Manager. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2009

billion in exits for the quarter, including both mergers and acquisitions and IPOs, down 57% from last year's numbers. billion in mergers and acquisitions of 67 companies in Q2, down from $6.48B and 89 transactions in Q2 of 2008. According to Dow Jones, there was only $2.8 Dow Jones said there was $2.57

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