Airoha to acquire IC Plus
Airoha Technology, a MediaTek subsidiary, will acquire all shares of fellow company IC Plus at NT$22 (US$0.78) per share, according to company filings with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE)......»»
Tencent agrees to acquire British developer Sumo Digital for $1.27 billion
Sumo was founded in 2003 and has put out a steady stream of titles ever since. Notable games developed by Sumo include Forza Horizon 2, LittleBigPlanet 3, Hitman and Hitman 2 and Crackdown 3, just to name a few......»»
Carlyle to acquire live broadcasting and streaming tech outfit LiveU for over $400M, say sources
Streaming is the name of the content game these days, and now one of the companies that builds tech to do this from anywhere in the world is getting acquired. LiveU — whose satellite/cellular hardware and software for capturing and delivering l.....»»
Chloroplast acquisition without gene transfer in photosynthetic sea slugs
Plants, algae and some bacteria are able to perform photosynthesis, which is the process of transforming sunlight energy into sugar. Animals are generally unable to use this process to acquire energy, but there are a few known exceptions to this. Som.....»»
Unybrands brings in $300M to acquire more e-commerce businesses
Unybrands is the latest e-commerce aggregator to pick up a significant investment, this time closing $300 million in growth capital from Crayhill Capital Management. Unybrands is the latest e-commerce aggregator to pick up a significant inv.....»»
ZoomInfo drops $575M on Chorus.ai as AI shakes up the sales market
ZoomInfo announced this morning it intends to acquire conversational sales intelligence tool Chorus.AI for $575 million. Shares of ZoomInfo are unchanged in pre-market trading following the news, per Yahoo Finance data. Sales intelligence, Chorus’s.....»»
Carsome Group will acquire iCar Asia in a deal worth $200M
Southeast Asia’s car marketplace wars are going into high drive. Today Carsome Group, one of the region’s largest online used car marketplaces, said it plans to acquire listings platform iCar Asia in a transaction worth more than $200 million. Ca.....»»
Microsoft to acquire cybersecurity firm RiskIQ as cyber threats mount
Microsoft on Monday announced that it's buying cybersecurity firm RiskIQ to help companies better protect themselves as ransomware and other cyber attacks become increasingly disruptive......»»
Microsoft Agrees To Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ
Microsoft said it has agreed to acquire RiskIQ, a security software maker, as the tech giant tries to expand its products and better protect customers amid a rising tide of global cyberattacks. From a report: The company announced the deal Monday on.....»»
Real estate platform Casafari raises $15M to allow PE to buy single-family homes at scale
Just a Spotify used VC and PE backing to acquire the assets of the music industry so that we must now all rent our music via subscription, rather than own it for life, so a PropTech startup plans to follow a similar strategy for single-family homes......»»
Fetch Robotics’ CEO on the company’s acquisition and the future of warehouse robots
Yesterday, enterprise computing corporation Zebra Technologies announced its plan to acquire Fetch Robotics. The San Jose-based startup has been a mainstay in warehouse and fulfillment robotics for a number of years, offering a modular system designe.....»»
A remote laboratory for performing experiments with real electronic and communications equipment
Laboratories are an inherent part of technology qualifications, as practical experiments are essential for students to acquire the competencies and skills that they will need during their future professional development. Providing this learning in a.....»»
Zoom to acquire German startup to bring real-time translation to meetings
As companies expand worldwide and meet online in tools like Zoom, the language barrier can be a real impediment to getting work done. Zoom announced that it intends to acquire German startup Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions or Kites for sho.....»»
2U set to acquire non-profit edX for deal north of $600M
2U, a SaaS platform that helps non-profits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all the assets of Harvard and MIT-founded edX for a deal north of $600 million, according to multiple sources. 2U did not immediately respond to request.....»»
Etsy acquires Elo7, known as the ‘Etsy of Brazil’, for $217M
On the heels of Etsy’s huge deal to acquire Depop to open the door to more social selling, targeting younger users, and deeply expand in Europe, the crafty marketplace has announced another significant deal to build out its reach, this time in.....»»
Indian healthcare startup PharmEasy to acquire majority stake in listed firm Thyrocare for over $600 million
API Holdings, which operates the giant healthcare startup PharmEasy, said on Friday it has reached an agreement to acquire a 66.1% stake in Thyrocare, which runs a diagnostic lab chain, for about $613 million in what is the first-ever acquisition of.....»»
Indian online learning giant Unacademy in talks to acquire Rheo TV
Indian online learning platform Unacademy is in advanced talks to acquire Rheo TV, a less than two-year-old startup founded by two former Unacademy employees, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The current deal values Rheo TV, a sta.....»»
No language trade-off: Bilingual children reliably acquire English by age 5
In the United States, more than 12 million children hear a minority language at home from birth. More than two-thirds hear English as well, and they reach school age with varying levels of proficiency in two languages. Parents and teachers often worr.....»»
Electronic Arts To Acquire Warner Bros Games" Playdemic for $1.4 Billion in Cash
Video game giant Electronic Arts has struck a deal with AT&T and its WarnerMedia unit to acquire Warner Bros. Games' mobile games studio Playdemic for $1.4 billion in cash. From a report: "Playdemic is a premier mobile gaming company founded in 2010.....»»
The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions
The type of material present under glaciers has a big impact on how fast they slide towards the ocean. Scientists face a challenging task to acquire data of this under-ice landscape, let alone how to represent it accurately in models of future sea-le.....»»
Tata Digital to acquire majority stake in online pharmacy 1mg
Tata Digital, the subsidiary of Tata Sons, said on Thursday it is acquiring a majority stake in digital health startup 1mg, the latest in a series of investments as the salt-to-steel Indian conglomerate enters the digital consumer space. The firms di.....»»