acquisitions

£4.6bn Microsoft Nokia Deal Receives US Regulatory Approval

Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's handset business clears another hurdle ahead of expected EU approval

11 years ago

Box Acquires Analytics Firm dLoop

Enterprise cloud storage provider Box looks to power its admin tools with its latest acquisition

11 years ago

EU To Approve Nokia Microsoft Deal, As Chinese Strikes Continue

EU reportedly set to greenlight takeover but Chinese workers claim they are being forced to sign new, unfavourable, contracts

11 years ago

Nokia Shareholders Approve Sale Of Handset Division To Microsoft

Nokia investors kiss goodbye to mobile phones at EGM in Finland

11 years ago

BlackBerry Board Opposes Potential Break Up Of The Company – Report

BlackBerry reportedly rejected proposals for individual assets in favour of a deal that serves the interest of all stakeholders

11 years ago

AT&T Eyes Vodafone Takeover In 2014 – Report

US operator is targeting Vodafone as a route into Europe, according to a report

11 years ago

Qualcomm, Cerberus And Lazaridis Consider Joint Bid For BlackBerry

Joint-bid for BlackBerry could emerge amid concerns over Fairfax financing ahead of today's deadline

11 years ago

Facebook And BlackBerry Discuss Potential Takeover Bid – Report

Facebook reportedly pondering BlackBerry bid as it considers future mobile strategy

11 years ago

Michael Dell Completes Company Buyout

After many trials and tribulations, Michael Dell's buyout of his namesake company has been completed

11 years ago

Former Apple CEO John Sculley Considers BlackBerry Bid – Report

John Sculley's favourite variety of fruit might have changed

11 years ago

Lenovo Wants To Buy BlackBerry – Report

Lenovo reportedly wants BlackBerry to help expand its smartphone reach, but its bid could crumble if the US and Canadian…

11 years ago

Facebook To Acquire Mobile Data Compression Specialist Onavo

Facebook wants to make access to the Internet cheaper on smartphones

11 years ago

Google, Intel And SAP All Interested In BlackBerry Takeover – Report

A number of parties are apparently interested in a piece of BlackBerry crumble

11 years ago

Fairfax Confident Of BlackBerry Takeover As Investor Doubts Grow

Fairfax says it would not have made such a high profile bid if it was not confident

11 years ago

BlackBerry Considers Going Private – Report

BlackBerry board is considering radical change in strategy, according to a report

11 years ago

Yahoo Buys Social Web Browser Rockmelt

Rockmelt is the latest company to be bought in Yahoo's aggressive acquisition spree

11 years ago

Apple To Bid £186m For Israeli Firm Behind Xbox Kinect – Report

Primesense, the Israeli firm behind the technology for the first generation Xbox Kinect, is in Apple's sights

11 years ago

Yahoo Continues Spending Spree With Xobni Acquisition

Xobni address book services to function as normal until next July

11 years ago

Lenovo Confirms Smartphone Partnership Discussions

Lenovo says it is discussing a smartphone joint-venture with another party, possibly NEC

11 years ago

Dell Enhances Software With SharePlex, Boomi Upgrades

Dell continues to look to enterprise software to assist in its transformation as it upgrades both SharePlex and Boomi

12 years ago

LinkedIn To Buy News Reader Pulse For £59m

LinkedIn agrees deal to bring Pulse to its 200m members

12 years ago

Ubiquisys Acqusition Strengthens Cisco Small Cell Offering

Swindon-based Ubiquisys is to be bought in £205m deal

12 years ago

Yahoo Acquires UK Teen’s Smartphone News App Summly

Yahoo strengthens its mobile portfilio with news aggregator created by a British teenager

12 years ago

Yahoo In Talks To Buy Dailymotion Stake – Report

Yahoo could buy Dailymotion as part of its efforts to expand beyond the US

12 years ago

UK Serious Fraud Office Investigating HP Autonomy Acquisition

SFO confirms that it is investating alleged accounting mispractices

12 years ago

Google Reports $48 Billion Cash Hoard

Google's £32bn cash reserve is intended to give it free rein where it comes to acquisition opportunities

12 years ago

Liberty Global In Virgin Media Takeover Talks

US cable company wants to buy Virgin Media

12 years ago

Lenovo RIM Takeover Possible Says CFO

Lenovo could enter smartphone market but would face opposition from US and Canada

12 years ago

Cisco Boosts Network Policy Management With BroadHop

Cisco continues to ramp up its acquisition strategy with the purchase of network policy management specialist BroadHop

12 years ago

HP Takes £5bn Charge For Autonomy ‘Accounting Improprieties’

Whistleblower claims Autonomy was over-valued, HP may sue

12 years ago