Showing posts with label deals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deals. Show all posts
Monday, 25 February 2019

Spotify spent nearly $340m to buy podcasting companies Gimlet and Anchor

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"Spotify  doubled down on podcasts last week with a double deal to buy podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor. Those acquisitions were init...
Monday, 24 April 2017

PetSmart bought Chewy.com for $3.35bn

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"PetSmart has agreed to make the biggest e-commerce acquisition in history, putting a deal in place to snatch up fast-growing pet food ...
Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Axel Springer paid $343m for 88% of Business Insider

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"German publisher Axel Springer, which lost out to Japan's Nikkei in the race to buy the Financial Times two months ago, is paying ...
Monday, 20 July 2015

An average of 8 billion dollar US-based technology companies were created each year between 2005 & 2013

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"1) We found 84 U.S.-based companies belong to what we call the “unicorn club,” a jaw-dropping 115% increase from our last post. Th...
Monday, 5 January 2015

2014 was the biggest year for IPOs since 2000

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"Big companies weren't shy about going public in 2014. "With 273 IPOs, 2014 was the most active period of issuance since 406 ...
Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Publicis bought Sapient for $3.7bn

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"Global ad giant Publicis is spending big to position itself as the top agency for brands riding the digital wave, after it announced a...
Monday, 3 November 2014

The fastest companies to reach a $1bn valuation

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Fastest launch-to-$1B valuation YouTube $1.65B 20 months Groupon $1.35B 17 months Slack $1.12B 14 months http://t.co/vAB2xGtJhY — ...
Monday, 15 September 2014

Microsoft is buying the Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5bn

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"Microsoft will acquire the maker of the popular game Minecraft for $2.5 billion. The technology company said it will buy Stockholm-ba...
Monday, 14 July 2014

Hulu is paying 'in excess of $80m' to screen South Park episodes for 3 years

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"Onstage with Hulu at the Television Critics Association’s twice-yearly convention on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker anno...
Friday, 20 June 2014

Europe has produced 30 $1bn+ technology companies since 2000

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"Europe has produced 30 technology companies worth more than $1bn (£590m) since the millennium, according to research that explodes the...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Viacom bought Channel 5 for £450m

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"MTV-owner Viacom has confirmed the acquisition of Richard Desmond's Channel 5 in a £450m cash deal. The US media group has entere...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Oculus VR is the first billion dollar company to come from Kickstarter

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"Not even two years have passed since Oculus VR began a Kickstarter campaign to raise $250,000 for a better prototype of its virtual re...
Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Tech acquisitions ranked by cost per users

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Including Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp - See the interactive original here Click on the link and hover over to see the data
Monday, 24 February 2014

WhatsApp gained 15m new users in the 4 days after its acquisition

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"Koum today said that WhatsApp to date has 465 million monthly active users and 330 million daily users — an increase of 15 million on ...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

Four numbers that explain the WhatsApp purchase

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"450 - 450m Monthly active users 32 - 32 engineers 1 - $1 per year fee 0 - Zero spend on marketing or acquisition" Source:   B...

WhatsApp's user growth was faster than Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and Skype

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Click to enlarge Source:   Presentation from Facebook, 19th February 2014

Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion

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"Facebook today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WhatsApp, a rapidly growing cross-platform mobile messa...
Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Apple spent over $500 million on acquisitions in Q4 2013

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"The iPhone maker said in a Jan. 28 regulatory filing that it paid $525 million on deals last quarter, almost double what was spent a y...
Friday, 14 February 2014

Rakuten is buying Viber for $900 million

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"Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc said on Friday it will buy call and messaging app provider Viber Media Ltd for $900 million, aim...
Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Google bought Nest Labs for $3.2 billion

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"Google is buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion. Nest Labs makes Internet-connected thermostats and smoke detectors. It was founded by T...