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After a long time of speculation and wondering, the deal has officially been completed. Sirius and XM have formed as one company and are now using the uninspired sounding name of Sirius XM Radio. As we saw the merger had its ups and downs and times when it looked like… Continue Reading »

Coming in a close 3-2 vote, the $3.3 billion purchase of XM from rival Sirius has been given the official seal of approval from the FCC. This news will now leave US customers with just one satellite radio service, which initially sounds like not the best of news, however at… Continue Reading »

Earlier in the week, you’ll recall my post about CNBC saying SK Telecom was in talks to acquire Sprint.  Turns out, not so much.  In a statement this morning, SK set out to clear the air: they are not acquiring any US carriers (whew) but they are seeking technology and… Continue Reading »

With the deal closed on the Dictionary.com purchase, Ask.com has now become, at least according to comScore, the ninth-largest web property. The all-cash deal originally began back in mid-May and had Ask.com purchasing Lexico Publishing Group LLC. The web properties that were included were Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Ask.com is… Continue Reading »

SanDisk has announced they have purchased MusicGremlin, which for those of you who cannot remember, were perhaps way ahead of their time when they released their MusicGremlin Wi-Fi MP3 player a few years back. This terms of the sale were, of course, undisclosed and the details as to just what… Continue Reading »

Just when rumors were beginning to circulate that Verizon is planning to acquire Alltel, comes the official announcement that both companies have already reached an agreement. And surely the acquisition numbers involve a big sum of money, totaling to an aggregate transaction value of $28.1 billion which includes Alltel’s equity… Continue Reading »

Remember the rumor back in February that Google was buying Plaxo for $200 million? Well, for the most part, it turned out to be a trumor.  However, instead of Google making the purchase, it turns out that Comcast is doing the buying. The cable company plans to utilize Plaxo to… Continue Reading »

CBS and CNET Network has sealed an acquisition agreement that could probably be the next biggest acquisition deal after the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal. Although the price involved in this acquisition is not as big as the Microsoft-Yahoo deal, the fact is both CBS and CNET Network own some of the… Continue Reading »

It is getting tough to tell who’s side is whose in the terrestrial vs extra terrestrial battle going on as all consider the merger of XM and Sirius radio.  Some, like the Department of Justice, see no problems.  Others like two lawmakers who on Friday announced we should take a… Continue Reading »

Well after all the hype during these past three months Microsoft has withdrawn their bid for Yahoo. With the final offer coming in at $33 per share or a total of $47.5 billion, that was just not enough to match the $37 per share or $53 billion that Yahoo was… Continue Reading »