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 Tuesday, May 14, 2013 @WalmartLabs Buys Two Companies In the latest surge for acq-hires over the last few days, @WalmartLabs, the technology arm of Walmart's e-commerce division, said it has acquired two companies, OneOps and Tasty Labs. OneOps is a developer of platform-as-s-service products; Tasty Labs is an application software developer based in Mountain View. According to @WalmartLabs, it will use the acuqisition to add some of Silicon Valley's "brightest innovators" to work o (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013(Full story) Zoove Dials Up $15M Palo Alto-based Zoove, which operates the star-star (**) mobile phone information numbers, said today that it has raised $15M in a new funding round. The firm said the funding came from its existing, Series D investors, Rogers Venture Partners and Panorama Capital, along with Worldview Technology Partners and Highland Capital. Zoove has deals with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless to operate the ** vanity numbers, being provided to brands to c (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013(Full story) RichRelevance Buys Avail San Francisco-based RichRelevance said Monday that it has acquired Avail, the European online merchandising and personalization firm. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Avail was based in Sweden, and offered up e-commerce personalization software. Avail was advised by Scope Capital and Headwaters MB in the deal. posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013(Full story) 8KMiles Buys FuGen Solutions For Secure Cloud Computing San Ramon-based 8KMiles, a provider of secure, cloud computing services to the government and enterprise market, said today that it has acquired FuGen Solutions. FuGen Solutions is a developer of identity management software. 8Kmiles said it paid $7.5M for FuGen, to expand its cloud and big data security services. FuGen Solutions founder and CEO, Lena Kannappan, will join 8KMiles as COO. 8KMiles works with Amazon Web Services on its secure cloud (More info...) posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013(Full story) RelayRides Buys Wheelz San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace operator RelayRides said this morning that it has acquired Wheelz, a competing car sharing marketplace operator. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. RelayRides said the acquisition is a major consolidation of the market, and will help it accelerate growth. posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013(Full story) |
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