Acquisition

The online food ordering sector is seeing lot of churn in off late, not only in India, but also at a global level. Germany based Rocket Internet, who have built and backed multiple online multi-million dollar startups across the globe,…

Mahindra Group has acquired BabyOye.com, for an undisclosed sum. Anand Mahindra, Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra Group announced the acquisition of BabyOye on Twitter with this tweet. BabyOye’s privacy document and…

So the rumours (read our previous report below) were true. In an official blog post published by Twitter today, they have conformed acquisition of Bangalore based ZipDial. Here is the Tweet posted by both the companies. We’ve agreed to…

Zomato has made it’s biggest acquisition yet – They have acquired US based Urbanspoon. It is their sixth acquisition in last six months and also quite surprising given the price they have paid for it. While the press release sent to us…

Facebook has announced that it has acquired Wit.ai, a startup that creates voice activated user interfaces. It’s obvious that Facebook has done this acquisition so that they can integrate this technology on their own platform.…

Zomato is expanding internationally at hectic pace – and they are able to achieve this growth inorganically by acquiring various restaurant web properties across the globe. Zomato has now made their 5th acquisition in as many months –…

Times Internet, who have been quite aggressive on inorganic growth this year have made yet another acquisition – they have acquired cricket news portal CricBuzz for an undisclosed amount . Interestingly, this is Times Internet’s fifth…

In February this year, Airtel announced that they will be acquiring Loop Mobile and their subscribers for roughly Rs. 700 Crore (according to media reports). However, 8 months  into the announcement, the deal has gone south and Airtel seems…

Indian Product startups are slowly coming of age – After Facebook acquired Little Eye Labs and Google acquired impermium, Yahoo has made their first Indian acquisition. They have bought Bangalore based startup company Bookpad, makers of…

Pune based social media & digital consulting agency Buzzfactory today announced that it has merged with US based Qliktag Software Inc. an who offer innovative mobile software solutions to customers. Based on our discussion with…