Web/Internet Companies Acquired in 2007
Acquired |
Acquirer |
Acquisition cost |
Details |
$100 Million |
FeedBurner is a
provider of online RSS streaming services. |
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$10 Million |
TreeHugger is a
very popular blog about green and
eco-friendly topics. |
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$100 Million |
UGo is a popular
new media site that generates around 11
million uniques per month. |
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$400,000 |
An online
podcast and vodcast directory. |
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$13 Million |
InsiderPages is
a user generated review site. The
acquisition price was not disclosed, but
TechCrunch reported that the price was
approximately $13M. |
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$15 Million |
Developed
peer-to-peer technology for the management
and distribution of media files. |
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$161 Million |
Webdialogs is a
web conferencing software/service provider. |
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$20 Million |
Flektor is an
online service that allows users to create
slide show mashups. |
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$200 Million |
Sidestep is a
discount travel search site. |
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$23 Million |
Mediabistro is a
site for finding media jobs and resources. |
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$240 Million |
Hitwise is a
service that provides traffic data and
analysis for web sites. |
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$250 Million |
HowStuffWorks is
an online reference tool best known for it’s
HowStuffWorks property, which, well, tells
you how stuff works. |
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$250 Million |
Online service
that stores and serves the photos and videos
for other websites including MySpace, eBay,
and other large sites. |
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$28 Million |
An online public
relations distribution software. |
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$2-$5 Million |
Online news site. |
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$3.2 Billion |
WebEx is a
leader in the online web conferencing space. |
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$310 Million |
StubHub is an
online ticket marketplace. |
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$345 Million |
Online business
search engine. |
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$352 Million |
Online
comparison shopping website. |
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$45 Million |
StumbleUpon is a
random web site discovery engine, allowing
users to stumble across new web sites. |
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$5 Million |
Wallstrip is a
financial video blog hosted by Lindsay
Campbell. The rumored purchase price of $5M
was not confirmed. |
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$52 Million |
Optimost
provides web optimization software and
services. |
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$76 Million |
Devloped online
data storage platform. |
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$9 Million |
An online
comparison shopping engine. |
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Not Disclosed |
Ingenio, Inc.
was the leader in live-search commerce and
worked by connecting millions of buyers and
sellers around the world. Ingenio
live-search commerce applications included:
Pay Per Call(R), Ether(R) and Live Advice. |
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Not Disclosed |
Yedda’s question
answering technology works by comparing and
matching questions to other questions and/or
related topics, and finds users of the site
that would most likely be able to answer the
questions. |
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Not Disclosed |
The site offered
information and customer reviews of digital
cameras. |
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Not Disclosed |
Developer of the
online word processor called Buzzword which
allows people to collaborate while creating
documents. This enables users to create high
quality documents without the hassle of
having any specific browser or software. |
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Not Disclosed |
An online video
editing service. |
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WhereOnEarth |
Not Disclosed |
Developed a
location-based service that allows users
search for products in a specific location
without entering a zip code. |
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Grub |
Not Disclosed |
Developed a
distributed web-crawling technology. |
|
Not Disclosed |
An online
service that displays blogs and news from
other sites. |
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Not Disclosed |
An online site
that allows startup websites or web services
to send out invitations to join their beta
sites prior to launch. |
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Not Disclosed |
An online
aggregator of pod casts. |
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Not Disclosed |
An online video
editor. |
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Not Disclosed |
An online
hospitality and retail job board. |
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Not Disclosed |
An online social
payment service. |
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Not Disclosed |
Online site
showing political music videos. |
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Not Disclosed |
MedStory is a
healthcare search engine. |
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Not Disclosed |
Feedcrier is an
IM-based RSS feed alert system. |
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Not Disclosed |
Tabblo is a
Massachusetts startup that makes it easy for
users to upload and print their documents
via the web. |
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Not Disclosed |
LogoWorks is a
provider of logo and other design services
to small business. |
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Not Disclosed |
Trendalyzer
specializes in the visual display of data,
such as charts and graphs. |
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Not Disclosed |
Tonic Systems
makes online presentation software. |
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Not Disclosed |
Panaramio is a
photo-sharing service with a geographic
element. |
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Not Disclosed |
SDC is a
provider of online ad optimization
technology. |
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Not Disclosed |
Parakey is a web
operating system created by Blake Ross and
Joe Hewitt. |
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Not Disclosed |
Cricinfo is a
leading cricket (the sport) portal. |
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Not Disclosed |
Afterbuy is a
German maker of auction management software,
used on eBay and other marketplaces. |
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Not disclosed |
Meta stories
developed tools for creating interactive
flash content, including it’s flagship
StoryMaker product. |
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$50 Million |
Movielink is a
video-on-demand service, which was formerly
owned by 5 of the top 6 movie studios. There
were rumors circluating that the price was
around $50 Million, although the terms of
the deal were not disclosed. |
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Not disclosed |
Gravatar offers
a globally recognizable avatar image that
appears next to a users name in blog
comments. |
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$90 Million |
Fotolog is a photo-sharing
site similar in many respects to webshots or
flickr. |
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$43 Million |
Max Preps is a high school
sports site generating most of its revenue
off of local advertising. |
Social Networking Companies Acquired in 2007
Acquired |
Acquirer |
Acquisition cost |
Details |
$700 Million |
ClubPenguin is a
social network/virtual world surrounding a
penguins theme. |
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$500M |
An online adult
dating site. |
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$50 Million |
Jellyfish.com is
an online social shopping site. |
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$45 Million |
Online photo and
video sharing website. |
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$30 Million |
Kaboodle is a
social shopping site. |
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$280 Million |
Last.fm is a
social networking/community surrounding
music information. |
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$200 Million |
Fandango is an
online movie site and recently launched
FanCast. |
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$10 Million |
Social
networking functionality for bloggers. |
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$100 Million |
A social network
for fans of college and high school sports
teams where users can track scores of games
and keep up on the happenings of their
favorite teams. |
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Time Lending California |
Not Disclosed |
An online social
network for the aging population and
baby-boomers. |
|
Not Disclosed |
An online site
focused on fashion shopping. |
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Not Disclosed |
An online social
network for travelers where travelers can
share photos, experiences, travel reviews,
destinations, and videos. |
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Not Disclosed |
A mobile social
network. |
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$4.1 Million |
An online photo
sharing site. |
||
Not Disclosed |
An online social
networking resource website. |
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Not Disclosed |
An online social
news site that allows users to participate
in adding news to the site. |
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Not Disclosed |
WebFives is a
photo sharing site. |
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Not Disclosed |
Jaiku is a
Twitter competitor that allows you to keep
in touch with friends via the web or sms. |
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$30 Million |
Clipmarks is a
social bookmarking service. Although the
terms of the deal were not disclosed, the
rumored purchase price has been between $15M
- $30M. |
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Not Disclosed |
SingShot is an
online karaoke community. |
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Not disclosed |
BuddyTV is an
online community built around pop culture
TV. |
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Not disclosed |
Five across is a
social networking site that was founded in
2004 and raised around $2M in venture
financing. |
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Not disclosed |
Tribe is a
social networking site that is rumored to
have raised around $10M in venture capital. |
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$96.8 Million |
Online social
networking and media-sharing website. |
Internet Advertising Companies Acquired in 2007
Acquired |
Acquirer |
Acquisition cost |
Details |
$3.1 Billion |
DoubleClick is one of the
leading online advertising firms. |
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$6 Billion |
aQuantive is one of the
largest online ad networks. |
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$300 Million |
BlueLithium is an online
global ad network and performance marketing
company. |
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$340 Million |
Quigo is a site and content
targeted advertising company. |
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$649 Million |
24/7 Real Media specializes
in global digital marketing solutions. |
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$275 Million |
Tacoda is a behavioral
advertising targeting firm. |
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$680 Million |
RightMedia is an open
media exchange for interactive advertising
(ad network). |
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Not Disclosed |
AdTech is a
german-based online ad-serving company. |
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Not Disclosed |
Enpocket is a mobile
advertising technology and service
provider.. |
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Not Disclosed |
ScreenTonic is an ad delivery
platform for mobile device advertising. |
Software Companies Acquired in 2007
Acquired |
Acquirer |
Acquisition cost |
Details |
$4.9 Billion |
Cognos is a
maker of business software. |
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$350M |
Open source
online and offline office software. |
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$1.6 Billion |
Opsware is an
IT/data center automation company. |
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$1.4 Billion |
EqualLogic makes
data storage software. |
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Not Disclosed |
Content
management service. |
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Not Disclosed |
devBiz
specializes in cross-browser software
development. |
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Not Disclosed |
Global Care
Solutions is a maker of health care software. |
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Not Disclosed |
Greenborder
Technologies specializes in enterprise
security for the desktop. |
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Not Disclosed |
PeakStream is a
parallel processing startup. |
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Not disclosed |
Latigent makes
call center reporting software. |
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$800 Million |
TellMe Networks
is a voice services company specializing in
speech recognition. |
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$625 Million |
Postini is an
e-mail and communications security company. |
Voice Companies Acquired in 2007
Acquired |
Acquirer |
Acquisition cost |
Details |
$45 Million |
GrandCentral is
a unified communications / VOIP aggregation
company. |
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$28 Million |
VoiceStar is one
of the pioneers in the pay-per-call and
phone-to-web markets. |
Hardware Companies Acquired in 2007
Acquired |
Acquirer |
Acquisition cost |
Details |
$8.2 Billion |
U.S. based
company that produces phone equipment and
Internet-based communications for
corporations. |
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$2.2B |
Computer
networking company. Acqusition not yet
completed, but announced in 2007. |
Gaming Companies Acquired in 2007
Acquired |
Acquirer |
Acquisition cost |
Details |
Not Disclosed |
Developed games
for web browsers and mobile devices. |
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$23 Million |
Adscape is
service that provides in-game video game ads. |
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$110 Million |
Havok is a video
game software provider. |
Mapping/Geo Companies Acquired in 2007
Acquired |
Acquirer |
Acquisition cost |
Details |
Not Disclosed |
Vexcel
specializes in photogrammetry. |
||
Not Disclosed |
ImageAmerica
specializes in equipment for high resolution
aerial imagery. |
||
Not Disclosed |
Keyhole is a
satellite imaging firm. The acquisition is
believed to be part of Google’s mapping
strategy. |
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$8.1 Billion |
Develops and
provides advanced map data platform to the
navigation industry. |