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There were numerous partnerships and acquisitions in the month of May, which included a lot of dollars changing hands. Let’s look at some of the major deals that went down this past month
- Ebay Purchases StumbleUpon for $75 million
- FeedBurner Sold! for $100 million to Google
- Google Buys Panoramio, Photo Mapping Software
- Fox Interactive Media (NWS) Acquires Photobucket and Flektor
- Google buys GreenBorder Technologies for more security in Google Apps
- Microsoft buys aQuantive Inc, for 6 billion US dollars
- CBS buys Last.fm
- AOL Buys Mobile Ad Network
- Microsoft Buys CareerBuilder; Google Interested In SimplyHired
- AOL Buys German Ad Server Adtech
- Yahoo Fully Acquires Right Media (April 30th)
- Facebook Partners with Oodle for Classifieds
Google and Microsoft seem to be positioning themselves strategically in order to keep up with each other in the war for Internet dominance. I expect to see this trend of acquisitions continuing strong into the summer.
Do leave a comment if I have missed any major partnerships or purchases.
