Acquisition

Times Internet seems to be on an acquisition spree. Since start of this year, they have already made 3 different acquisitions (recently Gaana acquired Musicfellas and TimesCity acquired Dineout ), and now have made announcement for the…

Pune based ElectraCard Services Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Opus Software Solutions, has been acquired by Global payment services company MasterCard. In a press note released today, MasterCard has announced that it has…

TimesCity.com, the restaurant review and food guide portal from Times Internet stable has today announced acquisition of Dineout.co.in, a restaurant reservation and booking service that operates in Delhi and Mumbai currently. This…

Drug major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries will acquire Ranbaxy Laboratories in an all stock transaction worth $4 billion. Total equity value of the transaction would be around $3.2 billion. This high level alliance will create…

Things change pretty fast. Flashback: 2009. Brian Acton, an engineer at Yahoo tries to find a job at Facebook and Twitter, and both rejects him. This was a Tweet he sends after the rejection: He, along with his friend Jan Koum…

SlickLogin is an Israel based startup, which plans to disrupt the authentication mechanism normally used on the Internet. It was launched at the Disrupt SF 2013 Battlefield last year, and sensing the immense benefits this app offers, Google…

Gaana.com, one of the leading online music streaming service from Times Internet has today announced acquisition of Independent music streaming songs portal Musicfellas.com. The acquisition is aimed at brining Independent music on…

Indian startup space is slowly coming under the radar of major players in the internet industry. After Little Eye Labs acquisition by Facebook and Google buying Impermium, there is a growing trend of Japanese investors flocking in to invest…

In the year 2012, Google had bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which it sold yesterday to Lenovo for $2.91, thereby generating a direct loss of $9.59 billion, if we exclude the inflation and other associated costs. Google had to…

Few weeks back, Facebook made it’s first Indian startup acquisition when it bought Little Eyes Lab, for some undisclosed amount. This was the first instance when an Indian startup was able to get Facebook’s attention, and the news was…

Unless you are living under a cave, you know by now that Microsoft has acquired Nokia’s Devices & Services business, Nokia’s patents, and their mapping services. According to the announcement, Microsoft will pay EUR 3.79 billion to…

Myntra seems to have taken inorganic route to spruce up their backend as well as frontend capabilities. Fitiquette marks Myntra’s Second International Acquisition in less than Four Months. They had earlier acquired Sher Singh, a designer…

Ecommerce in India is consolidating, the latest being Zovi’s acquisition of Inkfruit. Although, there have been talks of merger in past few days, ToI reported today that Bangalore based online Fashion retailer has bought out Inkfruit.com…

Here is a quick round-up of Funding, PE and M&A deals happened in India for the week starting June 18th 2012. Funding, Private Equity and M&A Deals of the Week Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type Who Funded /…

Here is a quick round-up of Funding, PE and M&A deals happened in India for the week starting June 11th 2012. Funding, Private Equity and M&A Deals of the Week Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type Who Funded /…

Here are the Funding, PE and M&A deals happened in India for the Fortnight starting May 21st 2012. Funding, Private Equity and M&A Deals of the Fortnight Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type Who Funded / Who…

Update 05/06/2012: We just learnt that AOL seems to be out of contention and a company based out of Chennai - QUSCIENT Technologies is in the race to acquire Minglebox.com. Again, this is still a rumour, there has been no official…

Here are the Funding, PE and M&A deals happened in India for the week starting May 14th 2012. Funding, Private Equity and M&A Deals of the week   Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type…

Here are the Funding, PE and M&A deals happened in India for the week starting May 7th 2012. Funding, Private Equity and M&A Deals of the week   Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type…

Here are the Funding and M&A deals happened in India for the week starting April 30th 2012.   Funding, M&A Deals of the week   Funded Company / Acquired Company Deal Type Who…