Unified has acquired awe.sm, a San Francisco, CA-based social media measurement platform. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Led by Sheldon Owen, CEO and co-founder, Unified is a provider of cloud-based solutions for data-driven insights, real-time social feed optimization, and programmatic advertising across social networks. Following the transaction, awe.sm’s technology will be integrated […]

Kaltura, an open source video platform, acquired Tvinci, an Israeli provider of Pay OTT TV services. The acquisition, whose amount was not disclosed, aims to strengthens Kaltura’s Pay-TV operator proposition and give it a leadership position in the OTT market to power video experiences across several markets (including Media & Entertainment, Enterprise, Education) and channels […]

Bizpora, a London, UK-based entrepreneur networking service, has been acquired by CoFoundersLab. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Founded in 2012 by Fred Caballero, Facundo Villaveiran, and Pierre Lacave, Bizpora helps entrepreneurs connect and network with peers, find accommodation with other entrepreneurs when traveling to, or moving to, a new city. The company, […]

ProtoGeo Oy, the Helsinki, Finland developer of Moves, an all-day activity diary for smartphones, has been acquired by Facebook (nasdaq: FB). The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. ProtoGeo’s team will join Facebook to work on building and improving their products and services. Moves will continue to operate as a standalone app, and there […]

Etsy, the e-commerce giant focused on handmade or vintage items, supplies, as well as unique factory-manufactured items, agreed to acquire New York City-based Grand St., a marketplace for creative technology. The amount of the transaction, which is still subject to closing conditions, was not disclosed. Co-founded by Amanda Peyton, Joe Lallouz and Aaron Henshaw, Grand […]

Lending Club, a San Francisco, California-based online credit marketplace, acquired Springstone Financial for $140m in cash and stock. The acquisition aims to expand expanding the services Lending Club offers. Founded in 2007 by CEO Mike Gilroy, Jim Donovan and Mike Donovan, Springstone provides financing options for consumers looking to finance private education and elective medical procedures […]

According to a post, Cover, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of an Android lock screen app, has been acquired by Twitter (NYSE: TWTR). The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Co-founded by Todd Jackson, CEO, Edward Ho, CTO, and Gordon Luk, Software Engineer, Cover is an Android-only lockscreen replacement that shows users the right apps at the right […]

Norwalk, Conn.-based Xerox (NYSE: XRX) acquired NYC-based Smart Data Consulting to expand its e-discovery services and technology consulting capabilities designed for law firms and corporations. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Founded in New York in 2009 by Ed Robles and Imer Perezic, Smart Data provides hosted and on-site services using Viewpoint™ software, the e-discovery platform […]

Datamonk, a Berlin, Germany-based mobile targeting and analytics platform, has been acquired by incubator HitFox Group. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Founded in 2011 by Sebastian Sujka, CEO, Gary Merrett and Thorsten Bleich, Datamonk provides a mobile targeting and analytics platform for advertisers to reach specific audiences at scale. Its solution collects, […]

According to a post by the co-founders, Readmill, a Berlin, Germany-based developer of an ebook reader that lets users read share and discover books, is shutting down the service while the team is joining DropBox. TechCrunch reported that the acqui-hiring deal value was around $8m, “made up of mostly stock but with a small amount […]

Ebuzzing, a provider of technology-driven video advertising solutions, merged with Teads, a video ad management supply side platform (SSP). The deal will create one of the largest businesses of its kind (with a $70 million turnover in 2013 and expected $100m in 2014) with a view to listing on the NASDAQ next year. Following the […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) completed the acquisition of Basis Science Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based developer of wearable device technologies for health and wellness applications. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Led by Jef Holove, now a general manager in Intel’s New Devices Group, Basis Science is the creator of the Basis band, […]

Lithium Technologies, a provider of solutions for brands to engage on social networks and building online customer communities, acquired Klout, the San Francisco, CA-based platform to measure users’ social web influence. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed but reports sait it was approximately $200m. Led by Joe Fernandez, CEO, Klout will maintain its […]

Santa Clara, California-based network security company Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) acquired Cyvera, a Tel-Aviv, Israel-based cybersecurity company for approximately $200m. Led by Uri Alter and Netanel Davidi, Cyvera provides a client-based Targeted Remote Attack Prevention System (TRAPS) for preemptive protection against remote-attack campaigns on Windows-based endpoints, servers, virtual machines and terminals as well as customized solutions for […]

Lotame, a New York-based provider of an independent data management platform (DMP), acquired AdMobius, a San Mateo, California-based provider of a mobile audience management platform. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Founded in 2012, AdMobius, which had raised a $5m Series A funding in 2012 (read here), aggregates mobile data from publishers, secondary […]