Acquisitions Archives
TeachStreet Acquired by AmazonLocal, Closing Down
Congratulations to TeachStreet for being acquired by Amazon(Local). The company announced the acquisition in a blog post: Today we are happy to announce that we’re joining the AmazonLocal team. Sadly, this means that we will be closing TeachStreet. When we opened our doors on April 21, 2008 we had grand aspirations, to create a place [...]
Berry Co. Buys WebVisible Engineers, Assets
As previously announced (where was I?), The Berry Company has scooped up some of the assets of WebVisible, including some of its engineers. Charles Laughlin’s post discussing the acquisition was pointed out to me by several people today. According to the release that went out: The Berry Company, LLC today announced that it has acquired [...]
HomeDepot Buys RedBeacon
RedBeacon has announced that HomeDepot is acquiring it. The price was not disclosed. Late last year the company announced a new funding round of $7.4 million and launched an iPhone app, which I liked quite a bit. There’s an obvious logic on both sides here and this is echoed in the expected “everything will be [...]
MerchantCircle Brings Lead-Gen to Newly Redesigned Website
MerchantCircle has redesigned and relaunched its site following last-year’s $60M acquisition by lead-gen company Reply.com. In the past most of MerchantCircle’s revenue came from display and text advertising by third parties on its site. There’s a great deal of advertising on the new site. But lead-gen has also been introduced as a central element. Some [...]
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Greg Sterling is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence (SMI), a consulting and research firm focused on the Internet's influence on offline consumer purchase behavior.
