December 7th, 2015Mobile wallet and e-commerce venture Paytm has acquired Near.in, a marketplace app that connects users with local businesses for home services.
The Economic Times, which first reported the development, said the deal is valued between $1.5 million and $2 million. A formal press release on the announcement is expected shortly.
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November 4th, 2015Video game maker Activision Blizzard will buy "Candy Crush Saga" creator King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 billion, as the heavyweight of console and PC-gaming makes a major push into the faster-growing mobile market.
The deal is one of the biggest in the industry in recent years, more than twice the size of Microsoft Inc's $2.5...
October 30th, 2015HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services provider, announced today that it has acquired Minneapolis-based PowerObjects - a leading North American provider of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This will bolster HCL's global applications business, which offers transformational programs and complex application management for a myriad of...
September 29th, 2015German publisher Axel Springer acquires Business Insider in a whopping $442 million deal, accelerating its push into English-language content.
Axel Springer is a Berlin-based publisher best known as the owner of newspapers Die Welt and Bild, already owned 9 percent of the company, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had previously put...
September 24th, 2015Healthcare startup Practo today said it has acquired Qikwell, a company that facilitates appointment scheduling at hospitals, for an undisclosed amount.
The buyout makes Practo the world's largest appointment booking platform with nearly 40 million appointments managed every year, it said in a statement.
With the acquisition,...
September 14th, 2015India's biggest online healthcare company Practo Technologies Pvt Ltd, has acquired hospital information management solution provider Insta Health Solutions Pvt Ltd for $12 million (Rs 76 crore) in a cash and equity deal.
“This is the third of several acquisitions we have been evaluating as we continue our mission to help simplify...
September 14th, 2015Setup back in 2008, Cardekho was founded by a team of four people as an initiative towards providing a quality information in a quality environment on one of the biggest assets that a person owns in his lifetime.
Recently Ratan Tata backed that Cardekho.com is acquiring Times Internet owned auto portal Zigwheels. The details of the...
August 27th, 2015ixigo, India’s leading mobile travel search marketplace has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Square Hoot Hikes Pvt Ltd, the parent company of Rutogo, an inter-city cabs aggregator, for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, the Rutogo team will be joining ixigo to scale its fast-growing cabs app by building a...
May 20th, 2015
WooCommerce a WordPress plugin that lets site owners turn their self-hosted WordPress website into an online store acquired by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com .
The entire 55-person Woo team will join Automattic. According to a blog post by CEO and cofounder Matt Mullenweg, this will bring Automattic's total headcount...