Lenovos’s Motorola acquisition is a done deal. Motorola Mobility is officially a part of Lenovo as the $2.91 billion acquisition that was announced in January earlier this year has been completed.
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Twitter has scooped up Twitpic, a service that allowed users to attach photos to their tweets. The micro blogging site will maintain Twitpic’s domain and photo archive.
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Lenovo announced plans to purchase Motorola Mobility from Google in January this year. Now, the company is planning to bring a Motorola tablet in the markets.
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Qualcomm has agreed to acquire UK based bluetooth and GPS chipmaker CSR for $2.5 billion. The world’s number one mobile chipmaker, has agreed to pay £9.00 per share in cash for CSR and the total acquisition is priced approximately at £1.6 billion ( $2.5 billion).
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Facebook has completed its WhatsApp acquisition for a whopping $22 billion which was originally announced at $19 billion in February. The acquisition cost has increased by $3 billion because of the increased value of Facebook’s stock in recent months.
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Adobe has acquired photo editing firm Aviary for an undisclosed amount. Aviary offers software development kits, or mobile SDKs, to developers who want to add photo editing features to their mobile app.
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Google has acquired Polar, an online polling company for an undisclosed sum. Polar is a startup that allows anyone to create a visual poll for their website or app.
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Amazon has announced the acquisition of live video gaming streaming platform Twitch for $970M. Founded in 2011, Twitch – formerly known as Twitch.tv – allows users to watch other people play video games.
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Google has bought product design firm Gecko Design for an undisclosed sum, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company has made the acquisition with an aim to bolster its Google X project lab which is responsible or the self driven car, Project Loon and Google Glass.
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Continuing its overseas expansion, Zomato has acquired two more restaurant guides -Lunchtime and Obedovat for $3.25 mn. The two popular restaurant guides are from Czech Republic and Slovakia respectively.
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Online recharge and coupons site FreeCharge has acquired offline app store Preburn for an undisclosed sum. The stealth mode offline app store is designed for Rapid User Acquisition, offering app publishers a large pool of users and hence, faster attainment of critical mass.
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Google has acquired a travel based image recognition start-up Jetpac for an undisclosed sum. The firm has created an app that pulls specific items out of publicly available Facebook and Instagram photos to generate city guides.
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Google’s YouTube has acquired a mobile-video app maker Directr for an undisclosed sum. The app is used by small businesses to create marketing promotional videos. Directr team will integrate into YouTube’s video ads division as a result of the acquisition.
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Google has bought messaging client Emu for an undisclosed sum. The messaging app that adds context to conversations will shut down on August 25th as a result of the acquisition.
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Twitter has acquired password security firm Mitro for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012, Mitro’s primary product is a web browser extension that allowed users to store and share passwords.
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