Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple's A&R label Platoon
A few days ago BIS Records turned 50 years old and I am immensely proud … Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Apple to Acquire Major Classical Music Label BIS Records Billboard : Apple Buys Swedish Classic...
PE firm Carlyle acquires London-based 1e, which helps companies enable hybrid working and manage endpoints, for $270M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Really enjoy stories like this: the anti-startup, doing brilliantly and quietly building lots of groundbreaking tec...
UK-based MelodyVR, which creates immersive live music for VR headsets and phones, acquires Rhapsody International, owner of Napster, from RealNetworks for $70M
The saga of Napster has taken an interesting turn … Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide : Napster sold to MelodyVR in $70m deal, including $44m owed to record labels and other partners James Booth /...
Amazon's Twitch has acquired social networking platform Bebo, source says for $25M, to bolster its esports business
While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiar...
Mailchimp acqui-hired Shopify competitor LemonStand, which said on March 5 it was shutting down, in February; Mailchimp says deal unrelated to Shopify breakup
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Did you know Mailchimp made half its revenues from e-commerce in the first half of 2018? It's not out to become a S...
Latin American carrier America Movil to acquire Nextel in Brazil for $905M
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Amazon selects New York City and Arlington, Virginia for its new headquarters, receiving $1.5B in performance-based incentives from NY and $573M from VA
I've been thinking about your regret minimization … Sissi Cao / Observer : Amazon's HQ2 in Long Island City Will Make These 5 Residential Nightmares Worse Patrick Sisson / Curbed : Amazon HQ2 subsidie...
Samsung quietly acquired VR app studio VRB, sources say for $5.5M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : This seems like an almost quaint amount of money, given the other deals in the news today. http://twitter.com/...
Rdio to shut down its service, file for bankruptcy, with Pandora acquiring key assets for $75M in cash
then Apple, Google, and Microsoft showed up Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Rdio shutting down, and Pandora will buy its technology Shawn King / The Loop : Pandora acquires ‘key assets’ from Rdio, will l...