M&A
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Trends
HP confirms it has received a proposal from Xerox about being acquired
Rumors have been flying today about Xerox possibly buying HP Inc., the printer and computer company. The company issued a…
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STARTUPS
$35M-funded Omni rentals in acqui-hire talks with Coinbase
Physical storage-turned-rentals startup Omni is dealing with layoffs today, two sources familiar with the situation tell TechCrunch. Omni just shed…
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BlaBlaCar to acquire online bus ticketing platform Busfor
BlaBlaCar, the marketplace that matches people for long-distance ridesharing between cities, has announced plans to acquire Busfor, the leading bus…
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Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband
Facebook is buying CTRL-labs, a NY-based startup building an armband that translates movement and the wearer’s neural impulses into digital…
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Business
Tutoring business-in-a-box service Clark has been acquired by edtech startup Noodle
Clark, the tutor management business-in-a-box service, has been acquired by the New York-based education startup Noodle for an undisclosed amount,…
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Twitch acquires gaming database site IGDB to improve its search and discovery features
Amazon-owned Twitch has made a small but strategic acquisition designed to improve its search capabilities and better direct viewers to…
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Ten years after Adobe bought Omniture, the deal comes into clearer focus
Ten years ago this week, Adobe acquired Omniture for $1.8 billion. At the time, Adobe was a software company selling…
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Palo Alto Networks intends to acquire Zingbox for $75M
Palo Alto Networks surely loves to buy security startups. Today it added to its growing collection when it announced its…
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VMware acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7 billion
VMware today announced that it is acquiring Carbon Black, a publicly traded security company that focuses on securing modern cloud-native…
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