Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’

EMC acquires Conchango for £42m

Interesting news this morning for Conchango, the company I worked for before joining Solidsoft. They floated on AIM a couple of months ago and this morning the latest news is that EMC has made a bid to acquire Conchango at 23.1p per share, which is a 44% premium on the...

Facebook goes large

The news in the press today is that Facebook has just acquired Parakey. For those who haven’t heard of Parakey before, they’re an outfit working on closing the gap between the Internet and your desktop. The founders of this “Web-OS” company are Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt,? the two people...

Yahoo buys Konfabulator

Yahoo has just acquired Konfabulator, a company that produces a desktop enhancement program based on a number of “widget” which get deployed to your desktop. I had played with this some time back and it looked like a nifty piece of kit. Amazing to see such consolidation in the IT...

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