If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Image via CrunchBase, source unknown It looks like Microsoft is playing hard to strengthen his position in the search and ecommerce sector. They just announced they bought Ciao.com for $486 million. Ciao.com is a popular price comparison site and a [...]

Two of the key people of the popular and historical browser Netscape, Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, invested in the popular mobile video streaming service Qik. Both of them joined the Qik’s board of advisors and I believe they will offer a very important contribution to the growth of the company. They have been key figures [...]

After last week’s rumors, It’s now official: BT bought Ribbit for 105M. More here. BT today announced it has acquired Ribbit Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based ‘Telco 2.0′ platform company, for $105 million in cash, on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The acquisition will accelerate BT’s strategy to transform itself into a next- generation, platform-based, software-driven services company. Congrats to [...]

The first news that I came across today are about two interesting deals. The biggest one is Google to acquire Digg (seems to be still a rumor, though) while the other is GigaOM to acquire small mobile blog (that I love) jkOnTheRun. The interesting aspect which both deals have in common is that they are about [...]

According to some rumors, it seems the #1 Web 2.0 blog, TechCrunch, is in talk with AOL for a possible acquisition. The deal value should be in the range of $20-30M. Not sure whether this rumor has really a solid base or not, anyway since Michael Arrington lives his life dealing with rumors, I think we [...]

According to trusted sources it seems that Ribbit has been acquired by the incumbent british telecom operator BT. Ribbit was launched a couple of months ago and they defined themselves as the Silicon Valley’s First phone company. It seems the deal has not been finalized yet, but should be close to the final step. I’ve been [...]

San Francisco based web search engine Ask.com acquired Lexicon Publishing Group, owners of Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. Even if Google dominates the web search market, it seems there is still space for Ask.com to consolidate its position and increase their market share. Ask.com said the deal expands its monthly audience by around 15 million users to 145 million, [...]