M&A Deal Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2010-09-28 |
| Target | TechCrunch |
| Sector | Digital Media |
| Buyer(s) | AOL |
| Deal Type | Add-on Acquisition |
| Deal Value | 40M USD |
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| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1985 |
| Sector | Internet Software and Services |
| Revenue | 2.3B USD (2013) |
AOL is a media technology company that produces, distributes, and monetizes by connecting publishers with advertisers on its global, programmatic content and advertising platforms. AOL was formed in 1985 and is based in New York, New York.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 46 of 64 |
| Sector: Digital Media M&A | 2 of 3 |
| Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals | 40 of 58 |
| State: California M&A | 18 of 24 |
| Country: United States M&A | 42 of 58 |
| Year: 2010 M&A | 5 of 7 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 21 of 24 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-09-28 |
Thing Labs
San Francisco, California, United States Thing Labs, Inc is the San Francisco-based company behind Brizzly, a simple, fun way to talk and share with friends and family online. Thing Labs' products include Brizzly Picnics (a group chat interface with pictures, video and more), the Brizzly Guide (the best way to find out what people are talking about on the Web), the Brizzly reader (for Twitter and Facebook) and Brizzly for iPhone. During their tenure at Google, co-founders Jason Shellen and Chris Wetherell were part of the founding team behind Google Reader, now the most widely-used feed aggregator in the world. |
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| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-12-01 |
Unblaboratory
United States Unblab built a cloud-based Gmail app, called Gtriage, that uses common and user-specific rules to identify and prioritize important email messages. Think of it as attacking the email overload problem from the opposite end of the spectrum as the anti-spam vendors, but using similar technologies. It’s similar in theory to Gmail’s Priority Inbox. |
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