With an aim to boost social gaming on its platform, Viber has scooped up mobile game developer Nextpeer for $9 million. The latest acquisition, comes soon after Viber launched Viber Gaming in December last year.
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BlackBerry is all set to buy crisis alert firm AtHoc for an undisclosed sum. The privately held company provides secure, networked crisis communications to large companies and government agencies.
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Google has acquired app prototyping start-up Pixate for an undisclosed sum. As a result of the acquisition, the Pixate team will join Google but it will remain a standalone product. .
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Facebook owned Oculus has scooped up gesture recognition firm Pebbles Interfaces. The financial terms of the deal are not disclosed but as per the Wall Street Journal, the deal is said to be about $60 million.
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In a bid to build its own mapping technology, Uber is acquiring part of mapping assets from Microsoft’s Bing, as per a latest report from Tech Crunch. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Intel has acquired smart eyemaker Recon Instruments for an undisclosed sum. The Canadian company is known for making popular fitness-centric smart eyewear.
Twitter has announced the acquisition of a Whetlab, a startup focused on machine learning technology. Whetlab confirmed the acquisition on its website while Twitter announced it via an official tweet.
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Snapdeal is continuing its shopping spree by announcing the acquisition of a mobility solutions company, Letsgomo Labs. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Microsoft has officially announced the acquisition of to-do app Wunderlist following a report from the WSJ yesterday. The financial terms of the deal are not disclosed although it is touted to be somewhere between $100- $200 million.
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Adobe has acquired Mixamo, a 3D graphics company for an undisclosed sum. The company will use Mixamo’s 3D technology into Photoshop and Creative Cloud.
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Microsoft has acquired to-do-list app maker 6Wunderkinder, according to The Wall Street Journal. The exact financial term of the deal is not known but as per the WSJ report, its is expected to be somewhere between $100-$200 million.
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Intel is expected to acquire chip maker Altera for $17 billion, as per a report from The New York Times. The report said that, Intel, world’s largest chipmaker would use Altera’s semiconductor designs to expand beyond the market for personal computers.
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Apple has scooped up augmented reality company Metaio, according to a report from Tech Crunch. The financial terms of the deal are not disclosed.
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In a bid to further strengthen its position as a leading chipmaker, Avago Technologies has agreed to buy Broadcomm in a biggest cash-and-stock chip deal that is valued at $37 billion.
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