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Brain Drain
June 8, 2011
Brain drain: Microsoft has announced plans to increase cash pay for employees as it attempts to hold on to top talent There has been a resurgence of activity in more...
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Merchant Circle Acquired by Reply!
June 7, 2011
Reply has acquired Merchant Circle for a reported $ 60 million. Consolidation and competition abound in the shopping niche on the internet. The internet now serves up more...
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Groupon to Fuel M&As with IPO
June 6, 2011
Groupon is asking current and future potential investors to pony up $ 750 million USD in a filing (S-1) with the SEC. for an IPO. No date's been set yet for Groupon's more...
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Chinese Lenovo and Germany’s Medion in Romance??
June 5, 2011
China's biggest maker of personal computers, offered to buy control of Germany's Medion for 466 million euros ($671 million) for a controlling interest in its biggest more...
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Will DELL bid for Brocade Communications ?
June 4, 2011
Industry observers opine that DELL will make a bid for Canadian networking company Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ) In the past year with PC sales in rapid more...
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Living Social goes after Groupon in France
June 3, 2011
Taking a plunge into the European market, Living Social acquired French firm Dealissime, for around $ 5-7 million. Living Social, launched in 2007, is an international more...
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Twitter buys Online AdGrok
June 2, 2011
Twitter continues to purchase additional companies,(June 2010 Smallthought Systems’ Trendly) (Tweetdeck May 2011) and this time a smaller purchase, AdGrok, in more...
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Microsoft will Purchase Nokia Smart Phone Business ?
June 2, 2011
The previous news of a Microsoft-Nokia partnership has now evolved into a purchase agreement by Microsoft of Nokia for almost $ 20 billion. NEXT covered this more...
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Airbnb is valued at $1 Billion
June 1, 2011
Last year Airbnb grew more than 800% exploding by booking over 1.6 million night stays in other people’s homes to date. Sources tell NEXT Airbnb is closing a round of more...
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Kabam and Google
May 31, 2011
Kabam is an interactive entertainment company that creates free-to-play games for social networks. But the games are different from the “mass market/casual games” more...
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Kayak Reports Growth as IPO gets closer
May 30, 2011
Kayak,Norwalk,CT, founded 2004, filed update figures for it’s S1 SEC filing this week. Kayak plans to list on NASDAQ:KYAK. Kayak is a travel search engine. It indexes more...
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Home Away buys Second Porch
May 29, 2011
HomeAway recently filed for a $230 million IPO, and has raised close to a half a billion dollars in venture funding. The company recently stated in its more...
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Sparkbuy consumer electronics search bought by Google
May 28, 2011
Google has acquired consumer electronics comparison service Sparkbuy for an undisclosed amount...and as of now, Sparkbuy is no more. Sparkbuys web site: “We are more...
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Zynga on Launch Pad , Final Countdown Underway
May 27, 2011
Credible sources indicate that the long rumored IPO from Zynga will take place in the next week. The move is not entirely unexpected, given how well the recent IPOs of more...
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Russian search engine Yandex sees IPO of up to $1.1-billion
May 26, 2011
The IPO market is heating up, with competition for IPO dollars, rubles, euros, rupees and more. Just after Linkedin registered it’s IPO along came YANDEX.ru, more...
The Executive Decision
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Cue Card for Facebook – What can it do with $1.5 Billion Cash
Facebook announced today that it recieved $1.5 Billion in investments from Goldman Sachs, Digital Sky Technologies ...
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Amazon buys Netflix clone Lovefilm
Amazon today buys out 100% control in Lovefilm, movie rental company based in UK and operting in 5 countries ...
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Google and Commitment Issue – Part 2 [ Google gets new CEO .. Lary Page ]
On Jan 10 I wrote that Google is showing signs of aging out and working on new business model.. I knew ...
