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HP CEO Meg Whitman: No More Cuts

HP Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman says there has been no significant change in her outlook for the company’s prospects for a turnaround, but the company must be run in a more efficient manner. To...

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App Annie Buys Distimo, Raises $17 Million

Mobile analytics startup App Annie has acquired another analytics company, Distimo. App Annie tracks downloads, rankings and revenue of mobile apps and e-books, and will turn Distimo’s Dutch...

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Travis Kalanick: Uber Is Raising More Money to Fight Lyft and the “Asshole”...

Asa Mathat What’s ahead on Uber’s path? Raising unprecedented amounts of money to outspend competitors, hiring key political PR experts to throw dirt on the taxi industry, and eventually ditching...

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Apple Will Buy Beats for $3 Billion

The Apple/Beats Electronics deal is now official, and Apple says it will spend up to $3 billion to buy the headphone maker and streaming music company. Why? Because Apple likes the businesses Beats...

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Facebook Acquires Mobile Data Plan Firm Pryte

Gil C / Shutterstock Facebook is acquiring Pryte, a Finnish company that aims to make it easier for mobile phone users in underdeveloped parts of the world to use wireless Internet apps. Facebook did...

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KKR to Buy Internet Brands for $1.1 Billion

Stockyimages / Shutterstock Private equity firm KKR & Co LP said it would buy Internet Brands Inc, which operates CarsDirect and other websites, from private equity firms Hellman & Friedman...

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Report: Sprint Close on Terms to Buy T-Mobile

Sprint is closing in on an agreement to pay $40 a share to buy T-Mobile US, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, drawing the two companies toward a deal to combine the country’s third- and fourth-largest...

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Dropbox Buys Droptalk, a Small Messaging Startup

Continuing its acquisition spree, Dropbox has bought another productivity app, Droptalk, which helped people message each other and include files and links. Droptalk is now closed to new signups, but...

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Google Pays $500M for Satellite Maker Skybox, for Photos and Eventually...

Google said on Tuesday it had bought Skybox Imaging, a company that provides high-resolution photos using satellites, for $500 million in cash. Google explained the deal as such: “Their satellites...

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SingTel Spends Another $400 Million on Ad Tech, Buys Kontera and Adconion

ismagilov/Shutterstock Singapore Telecommunications, Singapore’s biggest mobile player, is making more moves into advertising: The telco is spending around $400 million to buy ad tech companies...

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SanDisk to Acquire Troubled Fusion-io for $1.2 Billion

NYSE Chipmaker SanDisk will purchase Utah-based Fusion-io for $1.1 billion, taking a big step into the business of supplying flash memory to enterprise data centers. The deal values Fusion-io at...

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Cisco to Pay $175 Million for Sweden’s Tail-f Systems

Cisco Systems PR Networking giant Cisco Systems said today it will pay $175 million to buy Tail-f Systems, a privately held company based in Sweden that makes systems for managing networks. The deal...

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Fab Completes Acquisition of European Furniture Company

Two weeks ago, Re/code reported that Fab was closing in on the acquisition of a Finland-based furniture company as part of its latest strategy shift. This morning, the e-commerce company confirmed it...

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HP Settles Autonomy Shareholder Lawsuits

bioraven/Shutterstock As we told you was likely last week, computing giant Hewlett-Packard has settled a series of shareholder derivative lawsuits stemming from its 2011 acquisition of the British...

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Crowdfunding Tool IgnitionDeck Buys Two Other Crowdfunding Tools

Shutterstock/Ideas_supermarket The biggest crowdfunding campaign of all time, for a still-in-the-works game called Star Citizen made by flight simulation geek hero Chris Roberts, has raised...

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ServiceNow to Acquire Israel’s Neebula for $100 Million

ServiceNow ServiceNow, the cloud software company that helps other companies automate their corporate IT environments, will pay $100 million in cash to acquire Neebula, an Israeli startup. Neebula’s...

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Salesforce.com Acquires Startup RelateIQ

Salesforce.com has reached a deal to acquire RelateIQ, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal values RelateIQ at...

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Former Autonomy CFO Seeks Rejection of HP Settlement

bioraven/Shutterstock The former chief financial officer of the British software company Autonomy today moved to challenge a proposed settlement of a shareholder derivative lawsuit stemming from...

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Kim Kardashian Game Maker Glu Mobile Beats Analyst Expectations

San Francisco-based Glu Mobile, the studio behind free-to-play games Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Dino Hunter: Deadly Shores, beat Wall Street’s expectations in its second fiscal quarter. Analysts...

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Square Confirms Acquisition of Food Delivery Company Caviar

Square confirmed this morning that it was acquiring Caviar, a San-Francisco based company that lets customers order delivery from popular restaurants that don’t typically offer delivery. “More than...

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