Microsoft has acquired AVIcode, Inc, a Baltimore-based private company recognized as a leader in .NET application performance monitoring. AVIcode became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft, with the software being delivered through the System Center product family.
The Microsoft Corporation announced its first significant software acquisition in 1987, paying $14 million for Forethought Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. Forethought makes a program called Powerpoint that allows users of Apple Macintosh computers to make overhead transparencies or flip charts. Some ...
Agnilux was founded by members of the PA Semi (originally "Palo Alto Semiconductor") company that was purchased by Apple for $278 million in April 2008. After the purchase, many of the top employees were reportedly upset at the pricing of the stock options Apple granted to them. They left to form ...
Google has acquired its first UK startup, a visual search engine for the mobile called Plink. Founded by Oxford University PhD students Mark Cummins and James Philbin in 2008, Plink's first product was PlinkArt, a mobile app that allows its users "identify almost any work of art just by taking a ...
Google declined to share financial terms of the deal, but TechCrunch reported that Google paid $50 million for the start-up. Aardvark's search engine scans the profiles of people you've designated as friends in an attempt to match their expertise or interests with a query, such as, ...
Teracent's technology can pick and choose from thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time — tweaking images, products, messages or colors. These elements can be optimized depending on factors like geographic location, language, the content of the website, the time of day or the ...
Google closed the acquisition of AdMob. AdMob was one of the first companies to serve ads inside mobile applications on the Android and iPhone platforms. They've developed a host of engaging and creative ad units for Android and iPhone apps — for example, interactive video ad units and expandable ...
Jaiku is an activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones. Jaiku, Ltd. was founded in February, 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland. The service was released on the Web in July 2006. Jaiku is based in Helsinki. Activity streams and mobile ...
