No deal: Alphabet won’t acquire HubSpot after all
On, on again and now off. It appears that Alphabet's rumored acquisition of HubSpot isn’t happening, sources say.
Topic: Mergers and acquisitions
Report: Alphabet still wants to acquire HubSpot
Acquisition discussions are reportedly progressing between Alphabet, Google's parent company, and HubSpot. No deal has yet been reached.
Google’s potential HubSpot deal likely to spark fresh antitrust scrutiny
Both Google and HubSpot may find themselves defending the proposed deal against antitrust watchdogs in court, should it proceed.
Google ‘considering Hubspot acquisition’
The search engine is reportedly in discussions with Morgan Stanley regarding a potential offer, but no offer has yet been made.
Conductor acquires Searchmetrics in big enterprise SEO merger
Conductor said the deal will help it better support global organizations. Both platforms will eventually become one unified platform.
This day in search marketing history: January 14
What happened when we turned off AMP, plus: Shopify's chat bug, comment spam, mobile first, missing tweets and more.
Yahoo now has a 25% stake in Taboola
Taboola revenues are reportedly declining, which they attribute partly to weakness in the digital advertising market.
BrightEdge acquires Oncrawl in enterprise SEO shakeup
Oncrawl will continue to run under BrightEdge's umbrella. Here's what the deal means to both companies and their customers.
Conductor acquires technical SEO monitoring tool ContentKing
ContentKing customers can continue to use the tool. Conductor plans to fully integrate ContentKing into its platform within 12 months.
InMarket buys NinthDecimal to compete with Foursquare more effectively
The company is positioning itself as an "omnichannel" rather than "location" marketing platform.
Foursquare and Factual merge, CEO Shim to lead combined company
The combined company is the clear market leader for location intelligence.
TripAdvisor buys SinglePlatform to enhance services for restaurants
The acquisition is part of a strategic shift to deepen restaurant relationships and diversify revenues to better compete with Google.
Elite SEM acquires CPC Strategy with an eye toward growing its Amazon practice
The e-commerce-focused agency has more than 125 employees and a proprietary retail search advertising optimization platform.
Search marketing software company WordStream acquired by Gannett for $150M
Founded in 2007, the popular PPC management tool has been sold.
Google selling Zagat to restaurant recommendations site The Infatuation
Google no longer needs Zagat as it once did.
IAC buying Angie’s List, will combine with HomeAdvisor into new public company
The two companies will create a home services lead-gen powerhouse.
HERE Maps Sale Confirmed, German Car Makers Will Continue To License Platform
Consistent with previous reports of a sale of its HERE mapping unit to a consortium of German automakers, Nokia issued a press release earlier confirming the sale. The German group includes AUDI AG, BMW Group and Daimler AG. The purchase price, €2.8 billion ($3.07 billion), was slightly higher than the roughly €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) […]
Report: Nokia Sells HERE Maps For $2.7B To BMW, Mercedes, Audi Group
According to Bloomberg and CNBC, Nokia has found a buyer for its HERE mapping unit. The company had sought as much as $4 billion for the platform. However, the reported purchase price is roughly $2.7 billion (€2.5 billion). The winning (and perhaps only) bid was made by a German consortium of car manufacturers, which had always […]
Google Maps Hides Search Bar, HERE Struggles To Sell
Google Maps has made some minor changes that improve usability, while Nokia appears to be struggling to sell its mapping service HERE. Google Maps now will hide the search bar on the top and explore bar on the bottom of the map screen to create a larger visual field. One tap causes those bars to […]
Microsoft Signs 10-Year Deal For AOL To Use Bing’s Ads & Listings
Google loses deal it held since 2002, but AOL matters far less than it once did.
Apple Renews Maps Agreement With TomTom, Will It Buy The Company?
Reuters reported this afternoon that publicly traded TomTom is up on news that its mapping-data contract with Apple has been renewed. Rival HERE (Nokia) is currently for sale and may fetch as much as $4 billion dollars. There aren’t many global mapping data vendors available; and there’s a great deal of interest if not competitive […]
Uber Teams Up With Baidu For HERE Maps, Apple Buys More Coherent Navigation
HERE mapping unit could fetch more than $4 billion in new bidding war.
Report: Uber Makes $3 Billion Offer For Nokia’s HERE Maps
The mapping acquisition would be the second for Uber this year.
WSJ: Yelp Seeking A Potential Buyer
Company's market cap is $2.9 billion, a sale could fetch more than $3.5 billion.
Map Moves: Uber Buys deCarta, Maponics Grabs UMI, Google Ends Maps Engine
Acquisitions remove two independent mapping companies from the market.
Zomato Buys Urbanspoon For $50 – $60 Million To Enter US Local Search Market
International restaurant search provider Zomato has acquired Urbanspoon from IAC for between $50 and $60 million in cash. Zomato was founded in India in 2008 but now operates in more than 20 countries and 130 cities globally. Urbanspoon content will be incorporated into Zomato and the Urbanspoon brand will go away after a short transition period. […]
Yandex Buys Israeli Geo-Location Platform KitLocate
Yandex announced this morning that it has acquired Israeli startup KitLocate. According to third-party sources, the deal was worth “several million euros.” Yandex will gain and maintain a presence in Tel Aviv though the acquisition. The chief virtue of KitLocate is that it can provide location to apps without using much power unlike GPS or triangulation, […]
Pinterest Beefs Up Its Search Chops With VisualGraph Acquisition
Pinterest is looking to improve search and discovery on its website and mobile apps with the acquisition of a company called VisualGraph. It’s a two-person company and both employees — Kevin Jing and David Liu — are starting at Pinterest today. In a statement confirming the acquisition, Pinterest says the acquisition “will help us build […]
Google Officially Buys Waze, Will Integrate Technologies
Google announced they’ve officially acquired Waze, the popular app based social driven mapping technology. This was expected and the rumors are Google paid $1.3 billion for the Israeli startup company. The big questions are (1) will this acquisition be allowed and if so (2) will Google allow Waze to be an independent product and brand? […]
Will Google’s Expected $1.3 Billion Waze Acquisition Be Allowed?
Early yesterday, Israeli business website Globes.co.il said that Google will acquire social mapping app Waze for $1.3 billion. That report has subsequently been all-but-confirmed by others, including the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which said the announcement could come this week. The WSJ said that by size Waze would constitute Google’s fourth largest acquisition, assuming it comes to pass. […]
Report: Google To Bid For Waze — To Shut It Down?
According to a just-published Bloomberg report, Google is preparing a bid for Waze. Earlier this month, rumors indicating Facebook was in late-stage acquisition talks with Waze for roughly $1 billion appeared online. Other parties (Apple, Microsoft) may now also be interested in the social mapping service. According to the Bloomberg report: Waze is fielding expressions […]
Rumor: Apple May Buy Crowdsourced Mapping App Waze
Is Apple considering buying Waze? That’s what TechCrunch is saying by way of the rumor mill. If you don’t already know, Waze is a crowd-sourced mapping and traffic app. But it’s also a social community; it’s not that far removed from Foursquare. That’s what makes any potential acquisition here really interesting. There are many local […]
SEOmoz Gets Into Local Search With GetListed.org Acquisition
SEO software provider SEOmoz has announced its acquisition of GetListed.org, a software company offering a popular tool for small business owners looking to improve their local search engine visibility. The purchase price is reported to be about $3 million in cash and stock. As part of the purchase, GetListed CEO David Mihm will be joining […]
Priceline To Buy Travel Search Engine Kayak For $1.8 Billion
Priceline is a public company that owns several other travel brands, including Booking.com, Agoda.com, Cheaptickets.com, Rentalcars.com and a few other travel sites. You can now add leading travel search engine Kayak.com to that list. Priceline announced that it was buying the travel site for $1.8 billion (in cash and stock). Priceline and Booking.com are reasonably strong […]
Yelp Buys Rival Qype For $50 Million To Consolidate Position In Europe
Qype was the European Yelp before Yelp was in Europe. Now Yelp has announced that it is acquiring the company for $50 million in a press release that also shares its “preliminary” Q3 revenue numbers. Founded in 2006 in Hamburg, Germany, Qype operates throughout Western Europe, with the UK and Germany its strongest properties. In […]
US Yellow Pages Publishers Merge To Form Entity Focused On Local-Digital Advertising
Two of the major US yellow pages publishers and local search providers, DexOne and SuperMedia are merging in an all-stock transaction. After the merger closes, pending a shareholder vote, the combined entity will have 700,000 advertisers, 3,100 salespeople and revenues of roughly $3 billion. The merger was partly dictated by the need to accelerate the transition from traditional […]
In Chomp, Apple Gains A Social Search Engine For Apps
Reported first by TechCrunch last night, Apple has paid a reported (but unconfirmed) $50 million for Chomp and its roughly 20 employees. Chomp offers both iOS and Android apps and a desktop site and is dedicated to solving the problem of app discovery. Chomp can either be described as a search engine for apps or […]
Adobe To Acquire Digital Marketing Agency Efficient Frontier
Adobe has agreed to acquire digital marketing agency Efficient Frontier, which has a strong search marketing practice and technology to manage Facebook advertising. The companies didn’t disclose the terms of the deal. The companies said Efficient Frontier would become a part of Adobe’s Digital Marketing suite, which includes technologies and services it acquired with web […]
Google Acquires Katango ‘Magicians’ To Improve Google+ Circles
Finding it too much hassle to organize your friends and contacts into circles on Google+? Google may have a solution on the way, thanks to the company’s acquisition of Katango. Katango launched this past summer with an iPhone app that automagically organizes Facebook friends through an algorithmic approach that looks at profile information, past interactions […]
Apple Maps Inevitable As Company Acquires 3D Mapper C3
Apple has apparently bought its third mapping company, the Sweden-based C3 Technologies. The company’s site has been taken down. C3 provides 3D mapping (a la Bing Maps or Google Earth) for a number of other publishers such as Nokia (Ovi Maps) and UK directory publisher Yell. (In the wake of this transaction Nokia will probably […]