Social Media and its influence

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it would acquire Oculus VR Inc, which makes virtual reality headsets, in a deal valued at $2 billion.The deal comprises $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired Facebook is buying WhatsApp, agreeing to pay $19 billion in cash and stock for the popular smartpho

Yahoo just acquired a San Francisco-based startup called Distill, which was working on a way to make technical recruiting easier by pairing video interviews..

Google said on Monday that it had agreed to buy British artificial intelligence start-up company DeepMind for an undisclosed amount.

Impermium, a cybersecurity startup that was backed by top funds like Accel and Greylock, is joining Google. They had raised $9 million in funding from..

Google’s purchase of smart-thermostat maker Nest makes a lot of sense, and could help it compete against Apple.

Google annonce avoir effectué le rachat de la société Nest Labs, spécialisée dans la mise en place de systèmes domotiques.

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Vizify has been acquired by Yahoo!

Company looks to defend fragile business model with startup's

Google has bought out London-based fraud prevention startup Spider.io in an effort to protect its advertising business model from ad-clicking malware spread by botnets.

The news was revealed a blog post detailing Google's efforts to prevent fraudulent ad clicks, a key threat to the web advertising industry.

Spider.io has been trading for three years and listed seven staff on its website prior to Google's buyout.

Facebook announced on Wednesday afternoon that it had reached an agreement to buy popular mobile messaging company WhatsApp for a total of $16 billion, include $4 billion in cash and about $12 billion in Facebook shares.

WhatsApp has over 450 million monthly users and is adding more than 1 million new registered users per day.

A few days after Klout unveiled a new content-sharing service to burnish its fading brand, one report says the company is about to sell itself to another social media company, L...

Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The deal, which was 70 percent stock and 30 percent cash the company said, will be completed during the first quarter of this year.

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Google's acquisition of Nest could be the most important development to ever happen in the nascent field of the Internet of Things. Here's why.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc on Monday announced plans to acquire Nest Labs Inc, a maker of smart thermostats and smoke alarms, for $3.2 billion, signaling the Internet company's intention to expand...

Facebook today acquired NYC-based social startup Branch Media. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but The Verge pegged the deal at $15 million. The 10-person team won't ...