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Customer Experience giants InMoment and MaritzCX Join forces

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This week, two of the biggest companies in the customer experience space, have announced they're joining forces. InMoment and MaritzCX. The combined company will immediately...

Why did Google just drop $2.1 Billion to buy Fitbit?

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Fitbit is being acquired by Google. After starting more than 12 years ago, the company announced today that it has entered into a definitive...

Melbourne-based Podcast service Omny Studio acquired by US-based Triton Digital

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Podcasting is an absolute juggernaut, educating and entertaining millions across the world. The platform offers a dramatic difference over traditional radio and TV formats,...

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Melbourne-based Podcast service Omny Studio acquired by US-based Triton Digital

Podcasting is an absolute juggernaut, educating and entertaining millions across the world. The platform offers a dramatic difference over traditional radio and TV formats,...
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Corsair is buying Elgato, one of the most logical acquisitions

You probably know Elgato Gaming as a leader in high-performance PC peripherals and components for gamers, enthusiasts and eSports athletes. Today they have announced...
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Yahoo just sold Flickr to Smugmug, officially time to forget about Yahoo

Flickr used to be the largest photosharing website on the internet. Then Facebook happened. If you've taken photos you're proud of (and want to...
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Plantronics is buying Polycom for $2.0 Billion

Plantronics is acquiring Polycom, one of the most popular brands in enterprise video conferencing. The acquisition is valued at $2.0 billion in a combination...
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Why the hell is Google buying another phone manufacturer?

Google and HTC have officially announced a US1.1 Billion agreement where Google will acquire 'certain HTC employees'. Given Google has already bought Motorola for...
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Foxtel Play starts at just $10 per month from Dec, Presto is dead

It seems Foxtel have discovered Aussies like like cheaper streaming options. Of all the IPTV offerings, Foxtel play has always been the most expensive of the...
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Verizon steals Yahoo for just US$4.8 Billion

Yahoo is 22 years old. Yahoo has around 10,000 employees and last year made US$4.96 billion in revenue. Yahoo is being acquired for just US$4.8...
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SoftBank to acquire ARM for A$42.3 Billion

Inside your phone is very likely a mobile processor that runs an ARM architecture. This technology has driven mobile devices in recent years  to...
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Why Microsoft bought a lot more than a keyboard with SwiftKey

Microsoft's Technology and Research division have made their first acquision, SwiftKey. The company is best known for their Android and iOS apps, which...
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BlackBerry stock up almost 30% on report of Samsung acquisition

  Blackberry stock has jumped almost 30% this morning with a report from Reuters that Samsung Electronics are looking to acquire them. The report says...
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Waze acquired by Google for $1.3 Billion

Crowd-sourced navigation app Waze has turned down an acquisition offer from Facebook, only say yes to a $1.3 Billion takeover from Google....
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Yahoo officially acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion

After weeks of speculation and the Yahoo board approving the deal yesterday, Yahoo has officially announced that it will be acquiring the blogging site...
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Yahoo probably buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Yahoo board has approved a $1.1 billion cash deal to purchase blogging site Tumblr. The move will see...
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Is Twitter Music coming? (Update: Possibly coming tomorrow)

Twitter today confirmed that it has acquired the Aussie startup, We Are Hunted, a music discovery service - further backing up rumours that Twitter...
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Why LucasArts shutting down could be a good thing

Over the past few days the internet has held a lot of resent over Disney for closing down LucasArts, which sure, for the loss...
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Aussie / UK Kid sells his app to Yahoo for $30m

Nick D'Aloisio, 17, the creator of the mobile news reading app, Summly has just sold the app to Yahoo! for the cool sum of...
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Yammer sold to Microsoft for $1 Billion

The Wall Street Journal have confirmed recent rumours of a Microsoft acquisition of Yammer. The price for the private social network for...
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Samsung acquires mSpot Music, may push cloud-based media to devices.

Although Samsung didn't announce that it would be introducing a cloud-storage service to users at the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S-III launch, it has implied that it...
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Instagram acquired by Facebook, 1 Billion photos/dollars

This morning the world woke to news that Facebook was making its first large-scale, high-priced acquisition, Instagram. The smash hit photography app...
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Its official: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5B. Creates Microsoft Skype.

Microsoft is buying Skype. It turns out the Wall Street Journal was right with today’s story about the upcoming acquisition. It took...
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