Serbia’s public company Serbian Railways signed on Wednesday a contract on the purchase of 10 new diesel trains from Russia’s Metrovagonmash. This is the first purchase of new trains for Serbian passenger transport in the last three decades.
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Facebook Confirms Divvyshot Purchase as Talent Acquisition
April 5th, 2010 |
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Facebook confirms that it has purchased Divvyshot, which lets groups of people upload photos to the Web, share and edit them. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the social networking site says Divvyshot’s three engineers will work to improve photo sharing in the company’s Facebook Photos service. Selling out to large companies for scale is a common move in Silicon Valley, where startups impress corporate development teams at larger companies before getting snapped up.
– Facebook confirmed April 5 that it has purchased Divvyshot, which lets groups
of people upload photos to the Web, share them and edit them, for an
undisclosed sum.
Divvyshot’s technology groups its 40,000 users’ photos into collections
called quot;events, quot; allowing multiple people to contr…
Google, Apple Battle Ratchets Up with Google’s Purchase of reMail
February 18th, 2010 |
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Google Feb. 18 acquired reMail, a startup whose application downloads users’ e-mail to their Apple iPhone and lets users conduct full-text e-mail search. Google could have reMail founder Gabor Cselle build a reMail-like application for Google’s Android platform. If this is the case, Google has struck a blow to Apple, which has more than 100,000 apps in its vaunted but Draconian App Store. A Google spokesperson is implying Cselle will work on Google’s mobile Gmail efforts. Google’s acquisition of reMail underscores that the application guerilla warfare with Apple is continuing apace.
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Google and Apple are engaged in application guerilla warfare.
Google Feb. 18 acquired reMail, a startup whose application downloads users’ e-mail to their Apple
iPhone and lets users conduct full-text e-mail search.
The purchase was first reported by reMail founder Gabor
Cselle, a…
Ascendas REIT agrees to acquire 3 properties for total of $228.5m
February 17th, 2010 |
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Ascendas REIT, the business space and industrial real estate investment trust, says it has signed sale and purchase agreements to acquire two properties for $131 million and a Memorandum of Understanding for the purchase of a property under development in Jurong for $97.5 million.
Serbia halts purchase of swine flu vaccines
January 12th, 2010 |
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The Serbian government recommended on Tuesday to the Public Health Institute to halt further procurement of swine flu vaccines. This was confirmed by Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević, who spoke in Belgrade this afternoon.
Google’s Purchase of AdMob Faces FTC Scrutiny
December 24th, 2009 |
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Google Dec. 23 said the Federal Trade Commission issued a second request for information related to Google’s $750 million bid for mobile display ad startup AdMob. The move, a signal that the FTC has concerns about the planned purchase, will likely delay the acquisition to later in the year. Whether that hitch is temporary or permanent remains to be seen, but the second request process is an arduous one that requires loads of documentation. Should Google and AdMob combine, they will have earned $68 million in mobile ad sales to give them 24 percent of the market. Millenial Media, Yahoo and Microsoft command 18, 11 and 8 percent of the market, respectively.
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Google Dec. 23 confirmed that the Federal Trade
Commission has asked the search engine for more information regarding its
$750 million bid for mobile ad provider AdMob.
Google said the FTC issued a quot;second request quot;
for information related to the deal, which was announced…
Apple iTunes to Move to Streaming via Lala Purchase?
December 7th, 2009 |
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple’s acquisition of the digital music streaming site Lala suggests Apple is getting ready to reposition iTunes to offer a music streaming service.
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The confirmation by Apple that the company purchased the
music streaming site Lala, which boasts just 100,000 customers by Lalas own
count, raises the question as to why Apple, whose iTunes music application
offers more than 11 million songs and is the leading digital music retail…
Apple iTunes to Move to Streaming via Lala Purchase?
December 7th, 2009 |
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Apple’s acquisition of the digital music streaming site Lala suggests Apple is getting ready to reposition iTunes to offer a music streaming service.
– The confirmation by Apple that the company purchased the music streaming
site Lala, which boasts just 100,000 customers by Lalas own count, raises the
question, Why? After all, Apple’s iTunes music application offers more than 11
million songs and is the leading digital music retailer with more t…
Abu Dhabi purchase of Chartered Semicon likely completed by end of 2009
November 4th, 2009 |
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The purchase of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing by Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Investment Co. will likely be completed by the end of 2009, Chia Song Hwee, chief executive officer of the Singapore chipmaker, said today.
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ATandT to Require New Smartphone Owners to Purchase Data Plan
August 24th, 2009 |
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Beginning Sept. 6, AT T will require new smartphone owners, as well as those upgrading to a smartphone, to purchase a data plan a strategy it reportedly says will help customers avoid “bill shock.” Existing smartphone owners are exempt.
– Come Sept. 6, all AT amp;T subscribers who activate a new smartphone or
upgrade to one will also have to purchase a data plan, according to the Boy Genius Report, which says it
acquired an internal AT amp;T e-mail describing the change.
Existing smartphone customers will be exempt from the req…
Kosovo to purchase embassy buildings
August 11th, 2009 |
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The Kosovo Albanian government has passed a decision for the purchase of buildings in Washington, London, Paris and Brussels, to house its embassies. According to a statement released in Priština, the government adopted a request of its foreign ministry to start with buying only four buildings due to a limited budget.
Four Reasons You Should Buy A New Car
August 3rd, 2009 |
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Author: chelsi woolz Why would you buy a new car as opposed a used car? Surely, a used car if just as good, there’s an abundant supply and you can sometimes snap up a real bargain. If thats your tack it might just be worthwhile considering the advantages to buying a new car. Here are [...]
IBM’s Proposed Acquisition of SPSS Puts Oracle, SAP, SAS on Notice
July 28th, 2009 |
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IBM, which already had partnered with SPSS, is taking a significant step into the burgeoning predictive analytics space with the proposed purchase of the company. There has been a race on by the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP and SAS to build up their data analytics capabilities both through acquisitions and in-house development and IBM buying SPSS would put it in the forefront of the increasingly competitive space, according to analysts.
– IBMs proposed $1.2 billion acquisition
of SPSS is the most significant piece in the puzzle at least since the
Cognos purchase in 2007 in the vendors push to give customers the tools they
need to not only collect data but also to use it to their business advantage.
It also puts software rivals su…