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| Apr. 19 |
San Jose |
SunPower buys solar rival — and avoids Trump’s tariffs
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| Nov.20 |
San Jose |
Marvell acquires Cavium for $6 billion
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| Mar.13 |
Intel |
Mobileye agreed to be bought by Intel for $15 billion
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| Feb.21 |
Yahoo |
Verizon to buy Yahoo at reduced price Following two massive data breaches at Yahoo, Verizon is now going to pay $4.48 billion instead of $4.8 billion
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| Jul.24 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, Verizon set to announce $4.8 billion deal| An agreement to sell core Internet business like Yahoo News, Flickr and Tumblr would mark the conclusion of a tough four years for CEO Mayer | |
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| Jun.13 |
LinkedIn |
Microsoft to pay $26.2 billion for LinkedIn’s contacts
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| Oct.21 |
Milpitas |
SanDisk selling itself to Western Digital for $19 billion
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| Aug.10 |
Google |
Google gives itself a brand-new name: Alphabet  Google will be owned by a new umbrella company, Alphabet, a collection of companies, with Google as its largest subsidiary
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| Jun.1 |
Intel |
Intel buying chip designer Altera for about $16.7 billion
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| May.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo buys self-destructing mobile messaging app Blink
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| May.8 |
Apple |
Apple is in talks to buy Beats, report says
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| Feb.19 |
Mountain View |
Facebook buys WhatsApp in $19 billion deal Facebook is paying a whopping $19 billion in cash and stock to buy mobile messaging company, including $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in...
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| Aug.15 |
Google |
Google in $12.5bn Motorola Mobility deal
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Santa Clara |
Texas Instruments buying Nat Semi
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| Aug.19 |
Intel |
Intel To Buy McAfee In $7.68 Billion Deal
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| Apr.28 |
Palm |
HP To Acquire Palm For About $1.4 B
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| Oct.20 |
Sun |
Sun Micro Slashing Up To 3,000 Jobs
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| Jul.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo turns down another Microsoft offer
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| May.3 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo
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| Feb.11 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft's takeover
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| Feb.1 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6b bid Microsoft has made an aggressive bid to buy struggling behemoth, in hopes that the combined forces would create a formidable competitor Goog...
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| Apr.13 |
Google |
Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1B
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McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B
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| Apr. 19 |
San Jose |
SunPower buys solar rival — and avoids Trump’s tariffs SunPower will buy SolarWorld Americas, in a sign of how the industry is reconfiguring itself to deal with the Trump's protectionist moves
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| Nov.20 |
San Jose |
Marvell acquires Cavium for $6 billion The Bay Area semiconductor market showed few signs of settling down ahead of the Thanksgiving Day holiday
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| Mar.13 |
Intel |
Mobileye agreed to be bought by Intel for $15 billion The Israeli technology company up $13.35 to $60.62
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| Feb.21 |
Yahoo |
Verizon to buy Yahoo at reduced price| Following two massive data breaches at Yahoo, Verizon is now going to pay $4.48 billion instead of $4.8 billion | |
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| Jan.24 |
Cisco |
No IPO for AppDynamics as Cisco buys it for $3.7 billion
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| Jul.24 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, Verizon set to announce $4.8 billion deal| An agreement to sell core Internet business like Yahoo News, Flickr and Tumblr would mark the conclusion of a tough four years for CEO Mayer | |
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| Jun.13 |
LinkedIn |
Microsoft to pay $26.2 billion for LinkedIn’s contacts It's the Redmond, Wash., software giant’s largest acquisition to date that make it more powerful challenger to Google, Salesforce and Oracle
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| Apr.4 |
San Jose |
Brocade acquires a 'network onramp' with $1.5 billion acquisition of Ruckus Wireless
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| Feb.19 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo moves forward in exploring a sale |
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| Feb.3 |
Cisco |
Cisco in $1.4 billion Internet of Things deal for Jasper |
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| Jan.8 |
Santa Clara |
Thermo Fisher adds Affymetrix to biotech toolkit for $1.3B |
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| Dec.9 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo formally suspends plans for Alibaba spin-off |
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| Dec.2 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo up on report of possible sale of Internet business |
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| Nov.18 |
San Jose |
Storied Fairchild Semiconductor sold to Arizona chipmaker
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| Oct.21 |
Milpitas |
SanDisk selling itself to Western Digital for $19 billion Western Digital makes hard driv-s and is facing a shift to flash memory in smartphones and data center storage, which SanDisk makes
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| Sep.21 |
San Jose |
Atmel to be acquired by Dialog Semiconductor in $4.6B deal
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| Sep.11 |
Google |
Nintendo, Google spinoff Niantic in smartphone game |
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| Aug.10 |
Google |
Google gives itself a brand-new name: Alphabet Google will be owned by a new umbrella company, Alphabet, a collection of companies, with Google as its largest subsidiary
| Page will be Alphabet’s CEO and Brin its president. Google’s new CEO will be Sundar Pichai
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| Jul.1 |
eBay |
PayPal to buy Xoom for $890 million cash |
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| Jun.1 |
Intel |
Intel buying chip designer Altera for about $16.7 billion The deal comes after an earlier round of talks between the two companies ended in April. The transaction is the latest in ongoing consolidat...
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| Apr.30 |
Santa Clara |
OmniVision agrees to Chinese group's $1.9 billion acquisition bid |
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| Apr.9 |
LinkedIn |
LinkedIn buying online learning company Lynda.com |
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| Mar.10 |
Sunnyvale |
Blue Coat Systems sells for $2.4B |
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| Mar.2 |
Sunnyvale |
HP buys Aruba Networks in biggest deal since 2011
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| Dec.1 |
San Jose |
Cypress Semiconductor buys Spansion in $4B chip deal |
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| Oct.9 |
Mountain View |
Symantec to split, joining Silicon Valley breakup parade |
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| Jul.21 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo buying S.F.'s Flurry analytics firm
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| Jun.10 |
Mountain View |
Google buying Skybox Imaging for $500 million |
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| May.28 |
Apple |
It’s official: Apple buys Beats for $3 billion |
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| May.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo buys self-destructing mobile messaging app Blink Yahoo has acquired Blink, a mobile application that allows users to share messages that self-destruct, in order to poach the talent behind i...
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| May.8 |
Apple |
Apple is in talks to buy Beats, report says The Santa Monica-based Beats, founded by rapper Dr. Dre and record producer Jimmy Iovine, makes the ubiquitous Beats by Dre headphones
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| Feb.19 |
Mountain View |
Facebook buys WhatsApp in $19 billion deal | Facebook is paying a whopping $19 billion in cash and stock to buy mobile messaging company, including $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in FB stock. WhatsApp’s founders and employees will also receive $3 billion in restricted stoc... | |
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| Jan.29 |
Google |
Google sells Motorola unit to Lenovo
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| Dec.16 |
San Jose |
Avago Technologies buying LSI for $6.6B
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Google |
Google buys military robot-maker |
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| Jun.11 |
Google |
Google buys Waze for crowdsourced traffic updates |
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| May.20 |
Yahoo |
Tumblr 'will boost Yahoo revenue' |
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| May.19 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo 'to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn'
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| Jun.5 |
Sunnyvale |
SAP had agreed to buy Ariba for $4.3 billion
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| Mar.15 |
Cisco |
Cisco to buy NDS for $5 billion |
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| Feb.13 |
Google |
Google Motorola bid wins approval |
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| Dec.9 |
Sunnyvale |
Blue Coat to be taken private for $1.3B |
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| Nov.23 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft agreed to scrutinize Yahoo |
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| Aug.15 |
Google |
Google in $12.5bn Motorola Mobility deal Internet giant Google has announced a deal to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn. The boards of both companies had approved the deal
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| May.9 |
eBay |
Microsoft near deal to buy Skype
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| Apr.8 |
Google |
Google OK to buy travel company
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| Apr.4 |
Santa Clara |
Texas Instruments buying Nat Semi Texas Instruments Inc., the second-largest U.S. chipmaker, agreed to buy National Semiconductor Corp. for $6.5 billion
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| Mar.28 |
eBay |
Ebay buys GSI Commerce
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| Dec.13 |
Sunnyvale |
Dionex to be acquired for $2.1 billion
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| Dec.3 |
Google |
Groupon says no to Google sale
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| Aug.19 |
Intel |
Intel To Buy McAfee In $7.68 Billion Deal Intel Corp. is making the biggest acquisition in its 42-year history with the takeover of computer-security software maker
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| Apr.28 |
Palm |
HP To Acquire Palm For About $1.4 B The deal will see HP pay $5.70 for every Palm common share. Counting Palm's cash and debt, HP's offer values the company at $1.2 billion
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| Jan.21 |
Sun |
EU clears Oracle takeover of Sun
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| Dec.18 |
Google |
Google reportedly in talks to buy Yelp |
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| Oct.20 |
Sun |
Sun Micro Slashing Up To 3,000 Jobs Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to eliminate up to 10% of its worldwide work force, as it awaits a takeover by Oracle, a deal being held up by E...
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| Oct.13 |
Cisco |
Cisco To Buy Starent Networks For $2.9B
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| Oct.1 |
Cisco |
Cisco Agrees To Buy Tandberg For $3B
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| Sep.16 |
eBay |
Skype Founders File Lawsuit Against eBay |
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| Jul.14 |
Netflix |
Rumors: Amazon Buying Out Netflix |
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| Jun.4 |
Intel |
Intel To Buy Wind River |
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| Apr.5 |
Sun |
Sun deal cloudy after IBM pulls offer |
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| Apr.4 |
Google |
Google-Twitter Deal Rumored |
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| Mar.18 |
Sun |
IBM May Buy Sun Micro
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| Jan.17 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft's Ballmer met Yahoo chairman |
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| Jul.13 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo turns down another Microsoft offer Yahoo rejected an offer to sell its Internet search business to Microsoft. and leave the remainder of the company in control of Carl Icahn
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| May.22 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo postpones meeting, battle Icahn |
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| May.18 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft gives Yahoo bid another go
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| May.3 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft walks away from Yahoo Microsoft has dropped its 3-month-old bid to buy internet firm because the two sides cannot agree on an acceptable sale price
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| Apr.26 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo mum as Microsoft's deadline passes |
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| Apr.5 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft gives Yahoo deadline for deal
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| Mar.15 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, Microsoft hold informal talks |
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| Mar.11 |
Google |
Google closes $3.1 billion DoubleClick deal |
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| Mar.5 |
Yahoo |
Board meeting postponed to stave off bid |
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| Feb.11 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft's takeover Yahoo Inc.'s board is saying that it 'substantially undervalues' the Web portal, but at the same time, left the door open for a counter offe...
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| Feb.1 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6b bid| Microsoft has made an aggressive bid to buy struggling behemoth, in hopes that the combined forces would create a formidable competitor Google. The offer leaves the decision in the hands of Yahoo's board. In making the unsolicited public acquisition offer, MS is hoping to force Yahoo's investors to support the deal as they bemoan a slumping share price. The surprise of... | |
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| May.29 |
Google |
FTC reviews into Google-DoubleClick deal |
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| May.4 |
Yahoo |
Reports: Microsoft Pursuing Yahoo
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| Apr.13 |
Google |
Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1B Seeking to expand the ability to sell targeted Internet ads, Google agreed to acquire ad-management technology company
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| Dec.4 |
Milpitas |
LSI Logic to acquire Agere for $4 billion |
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| Oct.31 |
Google |
Google Acquires Wiki Tool Developer |
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| Jul.25 |
Mountain View |
HP to buy Mercury Interactive for $4.5b
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| Jul.24 |
AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices To Acquire ATI |
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| May.25 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, eBay to join forces in partnership |
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| Apr.26 |
SJ Mercury News |
MediaNews to buy Merc, CoCo Times |
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| Mar.13 |
San Jose |
McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B The second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher will also assume about $2 billion in Knight Ridder's debt
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| Nov.18 |
Cisco |
Cisco to acquire Scientific-Atlanta for $7b |
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| Jun.2 |
Sun |
Sun buys StorageTek for $4.1 billion
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| Apr.18 |
Adobe |
Adobe to acquire Macromedia for $3.4b
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| Dec.17 |
Cupertino |
Symantec snaps up Veritas for $13.5b
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| Dec.23 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo Buys Inktomi |
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| Dec.6 |
Cupertino |
IBM to Buy Rational Software |
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| Jul.8 |
eBay |
eBay buying payment provider PayPal
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| May.6 |
Cisco |
Cisco buy ArrowPoint for $6 Billion |
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