The maker of BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM) has acquired Cellmania, according to the website of the Californian company that specializes in mobile infrastructure. The website of the company says, “Cellmania is pleased to announce that the company is now part of Research in Motion. Our team has joined the organization overall and RIM will [...]
Aug
25
2010
25
2010
Aug
21
2010
21
2010
Social site Hot Potato acquired by Facebook
Hot Potato, a Brooklyn-based company, specializing in geolocation multimedia phones has been acquired by the popular social networking site, Facebook. Hot Potato said on its blog, that the company will be “wrapping up operations,” and will no longer be accepting new user sign-ups. Hot Potato launched eight months ago is a social networking service that [...]
Jun
26
2010
26
2010
Cloud services:HP acquired Melodoe
The website Techcrunch has informed that HP has confirmed the acquisition of Melodoe and the amount of the transaction would be between 30 and 35 million dollars. Melodeo publishes nuTsie application, through which a user can access his library in streaming iTunes from their smartphone.Till date HP has not yet clarified its strategy on the [...]
Dec
29
2009
29
2009
Google’s AdMob proposed acquisition: A spanner in the works?
Consumer groups cite ‘monopoly in mobile ads’ and ‘privacy’ as major concerns Is the giant’s acquisition deal is in trouble? If not ‘YES’ we cannot say ‘NO’ even, as two consumer groups asked the US Federal Trade Commission to block Google Inc.’s proposed $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob Inc., on the grounds [...]
Nov
14
2009
14
2009
Google takes over Gizmo5 to sharpen Google Voice
Another acquisition added to Google Empire is an Internet telephony company Gizmo 5. Google has not disclosed any specific feature for the integration but has a vision to improve both Gizmo 5 and Google Voice experience with the acquisition. Gizmo5 considered as the biggest rival to Skype voice service, makes Web-based calling software for mobile [...]
Sep
16
2009
16
2009
Google get hold of ReCaptcha
The internet giant Google today announced in its blog that they have acquired RECAPTCHA. Those irritating captcha which web users have to face on net is a pattern to confuse computer and to prevent spammers from using computers to automatically register for online services, such as webmail accounts and Web site registrations. It is a [...]