IBM buys rest of Advantis network. Big Blue plans to become the sole owner of the Advantis data network by purchasing the 30 percent stake held by Sears.
IBM buys rest of Advantis network. Big Blue plans to become the sole owner of the Advantis data network by purchasing the 30 percent stake held by Sears.
Space tourism: When will the rest of us reach orbit? Two former NASA astronauts and a space entrepreneur share their views on when regular Joes will be able to leave Earth.
IHS buys Industry.net. ... IHS also plans to boost Industry.net's basic offerings by putting 20 people behind an effort to get more vendor listings, which companies pay for but the site's 450,000 ...
Xerox buys ACS for $6.4 billion. The acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services transforms Xerox into a services company that can focus on business process management and outsourcing.
USA.Net, a free email provider and Hotmail competitor, said it has little concern about Microsoft moving into its market because USA.Net offers different features than Hotmail.
Lycos buys WhoWhere. ... Mailcity.com, and Tripod.com. Lycos is the fourth most popular Web site destination behind America Online, Yahoo, and Microsoft, according to the company. ...
KPN buys British leg of KPNQwest. As the dust settles around the failed networking giant, another piece of the joint venture has ended up with the Dutch parent company.
MCI WorldCom buys SkyTel for $1.8 billion. The long distance firm plans to buy paging company SkyTel in a deal worth about $1.8 billion in stock and debt.
Will.i.am's i.am+ buys home hub manufacturer Wink. The Black Eyed Peas star could be taking on Amazon Alexa and Apple HomeKit.
NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's largest mobile phone company, will buy a 16 percent stake in AT&T Wireless (NYSE: AWE) for $9.8 billion in cash, in a move to promote its mobile Internet service in the U.S.
Symantec buys IMlogic in all-cash deal. ... In November, MessageLabs, a hosted e-mail and Web security specialist, acquired privately held OmniPod, which operates a hosted and secure IM platform.
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GoDaddy buys domain name reseller Afternic. As ICANN looks to expand the use of different domain extensions, GoDaddy looks to cash in even more on domain name reselling.
Yelp buys OpenTable competitor SeatMe for $12.7M. The reviews site wants a bigger taste of the restaurant business, even if that means ruffling the feathers of a current partner.
Amazon reportedly buys another 2,200 delivery vans. The online retail giant is ramping up for more deliveries.
Google buys ad firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. Deal boosts the search giant's banner advertising business, which lagged rival Yahoo's.
Google buys Kaggle and its gaggle of AI geeks. In its quest to carry us into the machine-learning decades ahead, Google acquires what it calls the globe's largest community of AI enthusiasts.
Adobe buys Web word processor Buzzword. Adobe Systems steps up plans to offer online collaboration with Web word processor and file-sharing service.
Adobe buys PhoneGap, TypeKit for better Web tools. Adobe is getting with the Web program: PhoneGap maker Nitobi will give Adobe tools for building mobile sites with Web standards, and TypeKit ...
Healtheon/WebMD buys Medical Manager. ... In January, Healtheon/WebMD paid $2.5 billion for Quintiles Transnational's claims-processing business, an online processor of health insurance claims.