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Yahoo rumors ahead of Monday's event include $1.1 billion Tumblr buy, Flickr updates

acquisition, flickr, marissamayer, purchase, rumor, tumblr, yahoo 5/19/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="copy post-body" dir="ltr" itemprop="text" style="text-align: left;">	<div class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Yahoo rumors ahead of Monday's event include $11 billion Tumblr buy, Flickr updates" data-src-height="410" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/flickr-lead-620.jpg" /></div>Earlier today, Yahoo sent press invites to a "product-related" event in New York City Monday afternoon and there are already two separate rumors about the company's plans. The first, from Bloomberg, concerns the event specifically and cites a "person familiar with the matter" reporting we'll hear about new updates for Yahoo's once-mighty Flickr photo service. The second is from AllThingsD which has upgraded rumors of a Tumblr purchase from possible to possibly imminent, saying the company's board will meet Sunday to decide whether it will make a $1.1 billion all-cash offer for the site. Since new CEO Marissa Mayer took over Yahoo has made a number of acquisitions with a focus on improving its homepage, content and app offerings including Flickr. That announcement is also penciled in for the 20th, but whatever actually goes down you can be sure we'll have the details as they're unveiled around 4PM ET. 	 	 	 </div></div>

Yahoo rumors ahead of Monday's event include $1.1 billion Tumblr buy, Flickr updates

Earlier today, Yahoo sent press invites to a "product-related" event in New York City Monday afternoon and there are already two...

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Wavii يؤكد حصول جوجل، يبدأ بتقليص الخدمة الخاصة به

acquisition, buyout, google, internet, NaturalLanguage, takeover, wavii, web 4/27/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="mttextarea" dir="rtl" id="TranslationOutput" style="direction: rtl;"><div name="div[0]"> <img alt="Wavii confirms acquisition by Google, starts to wind down its own service" data-src-height="340" data-src-width="620" height="350" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/wavii-google.jpg" width="640" /></div><div name="div[0]">وكان هناك على مستوى فردي من عدم اليقين المحيطة بترك المبلغ عنها في جوجل من وافي: حيث عادة ما يذكر جوجل الاستحواذ في وقت قصير، كانت أمي الكلمة لجزء كبير من الأسبوع الماضي. والحمد لله، ونحن لن تترك معلقة في عطلة نهاية الأسبوع--وافي وقد صعدت إلى الأمام لتأكيد الصفقة يحدث. أيا من الجانبين قد ناقش شروط المشاركة، ولكن وافي رئيس أدريان عون أوضحت بجلاء اقتناء التكنولوجيا أولاً وقبل كل شيء. وافي لمعلومات التلخيص سوف يمكن إيقاف تشغيل الخدمة، بينما الخبرة الشركة في معالجة اللغات الطبيعية ينبغي أن تجد طريقها إلى المستقبل جوجل المشاريع. ومن المحزن أن نرى خدمة مستقلة أخرى استيعابها من قبل شركة أكبر بكثير، ولكن نحن على الأقل احتمالاً لرؤية ثمار وافي للعمل من خلال بعض القنوات العامة جداً.</div></div></div>

Wavii يؤكد حصول جوجل، يبدأ بتقليص الخدمة الخاصة به

و كان هناك على مستوى فردي من عدم اليقين المحيطة ب ترك المبلغ عنها في جوجل من وافي : حيث عادة ما يذكر جوجل الاستحواذ في ...

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Amazon acquires Goodreads, aims to make better recommendations for Kindle users

acquire, acquisition, amazon, Business, e book, e books, e reader, e readers, e-book, e-books, e-reader, e-readers, goodreads, industry, recommendations, social 3/29/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Amazon acquires Goodreads, aims to make better recommendations for Kindle users" data-src-height="473" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/kindlebooks619.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> So, Amazon has a reading platform called Kindle. Goodreads has a platform that makes fairly excellent suggestions when it comes to reading materials. You probably see where this is going. This evening, Amazon announced that it was acquiring one of the more popular reading recommendation engines, and while the outfit isn't making clear what it plans to do with the technology, it shouldn't take a scholar to see how it'd bolster Amazon's Kindle reader line as well as its array of Kindle apps. (What'll happen to Shelfari, however, is perhaps a bigger mystery.)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Russ Grandinetti, Amazon's vice president of Kindle Content noted that "Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with Kindle, Amazon has helped expand reading around the world -- together, we intend to build many new ways to delight readers and authors alike." It's entirely likely that this will add another social angle to the Kindle framework, further establishing an ecosystem where friends could see suggestions based on what they're independently reading through their own Kindle accounts. The companies are expecting the deal to be finalized in Q2, which suggests that we'll see a proper integration just as back-to-school season begins. Right, guys?</div></div>

Amazon acquires Goodreads, aims to make better recommendations for Kindle users

So, Amazon has a reading platform called Kindle. Goodreads has a platform that makes fairly excellent suggestions when it comes to readi...

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Babbel acquires PlaySay in bid to bolster US language learning presence

acquisition, Babbel, Business, education, industry, language, learning, playsay, software 3/21/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Babbel acquires PlaySay in bid to bolster US language learning presence " data-src-height="481" data-src-width="378" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/babbelwp8-1363805773.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Babbel's been doing a solid job of picking up users as it attempts to help people around the world learn new tongues over their lunch breaks, but evidently, it's not picking up steam in the US as well as it would like. The remedy? Buy the market share one so desires. Today, the company has announced the acquisition of San Francisco's own PlaySay -- a language learning company that has been tearing up every app store it approaches since launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in September of 2011. With that, however, comes some pretty unfortunate news for users. PlaySay apps are going to be yanked 45 days from now, with website visitors funneled over to Babbel's site. Moreover, we've confirmed that none of PlaySay's technologies will be integrated into Babbel's programs, and that only PlaySay's founder (Ryan Meinzer) will remain on staff as an "adviser."</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> We've got nothing but love for Babbel's software, but what this means for consumers is simple: one less player in the space, and a dead-end for the technology that was developed in order to launch PlaySay. Of course, we aren't going to pretend that this type of thing doesn't happen all of the time, but alas....</div><div class="open" dir="ltr" id="pr_box" style="text-align: left;"> <div id="pr_box_button">Hide Press Release</div><div id="pr_text"> Education Startup babbel.com Acquires San Francisco based PlaySay · Acclaimed mobile language learning app PlaySay prompts its users to move to babbel.com · Deal fueled from operative cash flow · Acquisition part of babbel.com international expansion strategy San Francisco, 21st March 2013 - Today babbel.com announced that it will complete the acquisition of PlaySay, a social language learning app for the iPhone that incorporates real conversations and pronunciation feedback with native speakers. PlaySay users are invited to join the Babbel Community. PlaySay CEO Ryan Meinzer will join the Babbel Team as a strategic advisor. This move demonstrates babbel's long term goal to extend its presence in the worldwide mobile learning market, and in the USA in particular, a market considered 'the most mature' by babbel.com CEO Markus Witte. With 15 million users worldwide, over 8 million downloads of its apps and a growth of 200% a year, babbel.com has been at the forefront, internationally, of e-learning via mobile devices. Founded by Ryan Meinzer in 2008 PlaySay is 'a language learning experience', offering a unique, visionary and fun way to learn Spanish and English. The 2011 TechCrunch Disrupt finalist PlaySay Inc., which has its headquarters in San Francisco, has seen its app ranked #1 in the education category of the iTunes store in ten countries, including the USA. Markus Witte, CEO of babbel.com, says: "Education is going mobile. This acquisition represents a continuation of our strategy to offer a complete range of mobile solutions to language learning and the possibility to leverage market share in the US." babbel.com will recruit Ryan Meinzer as advisor for babbel's US operations. "With an affordable price point and focus on mobile,babbel.com is poised to usurp giants like Rosetta Stone who have neglected the majority of the users in the USA market that spend <$100/year on self-study language learning products. The winner of the race in language learning software will be the one that does mobile the best and babbel.com will be well positioned in the principle USA market armed with the acquisition of PlaySay." Users of PlaySay can continue to use the app for at least 45 days and can also access the babbel language learning apps on the web, for the iPhone or the iPad. Babbel's online language learning offers can be found at www.babbel.com. Learners usingbabbel.com can choose to practice Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Indonesian, Polish, Norwegian, Danish and Dutch. Markus Witte (CEO) and Thomas Holl (CTO) will make their first visit to Ryan in San Francisco in the first week of April. Markus Witte, Ryan Meinzer and Thomas Holl will be available for interviews in San Francisco in the first week of April. Link to the iTunes Store: https://itunes.apple.com/de/artist/babbel/id357018535 About babbel.com: babbel.com is the new way to learn languages. With the online language learning system, both beginners and continuing learners can study Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Indonesian, Polish, Norwegian, Danish and Dutch through interactive listening, writing and speaking exercises. The website babbel.com offers numerous online courses with over 6,500 hours content. In addition there are vocabulary trainers for iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windows 8 and Windows Phone, Kindle Fire as well as interactive eBooks and a full-featured app for the iPad. More than 15 million people from over 190 countries are already learning a language with babbel.com. Babbel.com is operated by Lesson Nine GmbH in Berlin. The company was founded in August, 2007, and now has around 170 employees and freelancers. Since July, 2008, Lesson Nine has been involved with Kizoo AG and VC-Fonds Berlin. Further information at: http://www.babbel.com or http://www.crunchbase.com/company/babbel About PlaySay and Ryan Meinzer: PlaySay is an iPhone game connecting language learners so they can have real conversations with pronunciation feedback. A 2011 TechCrunch Disrupt Finalist PlaySay is backed by the most active VC's in the education space of the USA (Novak Biddle Venture Partners). The company has closed premium content deals with one of the largest publishers of language learning books and materials (McGraw-Hill) along with the largest foreign language learning dictionary publisher of the world (HarperCollins). Ryan Meinzer's areas of business expertise are sales, new product development, business development and international expansion. Before PlaySay, Ryan led the international business of a Japanese marketing firm in Tokyo, Japan with Fortune 500 and major multinational clientele. Ryan will now be joining the team at Heroku (owned by Salesforce). </div></div></div>

Babbel acquires PlaySay in bid to bolster US language learning presence

Babbel's been doing a solid job of picking up users as it attempts to help people around the world learn new tongues over their lunch...

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Belkin acquires Linksys, plans to continue marketing products under both brands

acquire, acquisition, Belkin, cisco, linksys, networking 3/16/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Belkin acquires Linksys, plans to continue marketing products under both brands" data-src-height="381" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/ciscobelkin.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Linksys and Cisco are no longer one. The enterprise infrastructure giant, which acquired the home networking line in 2003, has officially passed the baton to Belkin. Under the new arrangement, Linksys devices and services, such as routers and Smart WiFi products, will fall under the Belkin umbrella. CEO Chet Pipkin announced plans to maintain both brands, adding that Linksys "will continue to exist and evolve to include even richer user experiences and network management functionality." Going forward, teams from both Linksys and Belkin may work together to create certain products, so we might begin to see new innovations that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Consumers are unlikely to experience any hiccups during the transition -- the Linksys website will remain intact and support services will be available as always. Hit up the press release after the break for a few more details surrounding the acquisition.</div><div class="open" dir="ltr" id="pr_box" style="text-align: left;"><div id="pr_box_button">Hide Press Release</div><div id="pr_text">Belkin Completes Acquisition of Linksys PLAYA VISTA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Belkin today announced the completion of its acquisition of Linksys. Linksys' technologies, including its routers and the popular and innovative Smart Wi-Fi portfolio and services, will be managed and maintained as a separate brand and product portfolio. "Linksys has a rich heritage, a passionate customer base and a wide product line, all of which fueled our decision to acquire the company and our plan to maintain the Linksys brand," said Chet Pipkin, CEO of Belkin. "The Linksys portfolio will continue to exist and evolve to include even richer user experiences and network management functionality. Smart Wi-Fi is an innovative and easy way for consumers to stay connected to their home network and we look to continue investing in it by adding more features and products." Linksys customers and retailers will continue to see new Linksys products come to market in the near future, starting with several announcements in the spring time frame. By maintaining the Belkin and Linksys brands in home networking, Belkin aims to address a broader range of consumers with distinct networking solutions and will create the premier ecosystem for mobile devices and smart homes. Support for Linksys products remains available through the existing Linksys support channels. For service, Linksys customers should go to the support page on the Linksys website. All valid warranties will be honored for current and future Linksys products. "A lot of exciting things are happening in today's connected lifestyle segment, and we are honored to continue the Linksys brand and enable new connected experiences," added Pipkin. "Linksys and Belkin are now one team. We are ready to do fantastic things as a team and deliver products that delight consumers and support the increasingly connected, mobile world."</div></div></div>

Belkin acquires Linksys, plans to continue marketing products under both brands

Linksys and Cisco are no longer one. The enterprise infrastructure giant, which acquired the home networking line in 2003, has officially ...

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Dropbox acquires Mailbox, teases an email and cloud collaboration

acquisition, cloud, CloudStorage, dropbox, email, mailbox, mobilepostcross 3/15/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

Dropbox acquires Mailbox, teases an email and cloud collaboration

That was fast. It was just a month ago that Mailbox launched its unique (if queue-ridden) email client for iPhone users, and today we'...

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Google acquires neural network startup that may help it hone speech recognition and more

acquisition, AlexKrizhevsky, GeoffreyHinton, google, IlyaSutskever, NeuralNet, NeuralNetworks, UniversityOfToronto 3/13/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Google acquires neural network startup that may help it hone speech recognition and more" data-src-height="340" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/google-1363149525.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Mountain View has just picked up some experts on deep neural networks with their acquisition of DNNresearch, which was founded last year by University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton and graduate students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever. The group is being brought into the fold after developing a solution that vastly improves object recognition. As a whole, advances in neural nets could lead to the development of improved computer vision, language understanding and speech recognition systems. We reckon that Page and Co. have a few projects in mind that would benefit from such things. Both students will be transitioning to Google, while Hinton will split his attention between teaching and working with the search giant.</div><div class="open" dir="ltr" id="pr_box" style="text-align: left;"> <div id="pr_box_button">Hide Press Release</div><div id="pr_text"> U of T neural networks start-up acquired by Google TORONTO, ON – Google has picked up a ground-breaking start-up out of the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. University Professor Geoffrey Hinton and two of his graduate students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, incorporated DNNresearch Inc. in 2012, and the company has been acquired by Google for its research on deep neural networks. Hinton is world-renowned for his work with neural nets, and this research has profound implications for areas such as speech recognition, computer vision and language understanding. "Geoffrey Hinton's research is a magnificent example of disruptive innovation with roots in basic research," said U of T's president, Professor David Naylor. "The discoveries of brilliant researchers, guided freely by their expertise, curiosity, and intuition, lead eventually to practical applications no one could have imagined, much less requisitioned. "I extend my congratulations to Professor Hinton for this latest achievement." Recently, Krizhevsky and Sutskever, who will both be moving to Google, developed a system that dramatically improved the state of the art in object recognition. "This is a wonderful opportunity for Geoff, and a great opportunity for the department," said Computer Science Chair Sven Dickinson. "In recent years, we have been expanding our industrial relations, and this acquisition represents a wonderful opportunity to strengthen our existing ties with Google, one of the world's most innovative IT companies." The Google deal will support Prof. Hinton's graduate students housed in the department's machine learning group, while protecting their research autonomy under academic freedom. It will also allow Prof. Hinton himself to divide his time between his university research and his work at Google. "I am extremely excited about this fantastic opportunity to keep my research here in Toronto and, at the same time, help Google apply new developments in deep learning to make systems that help people," said Professor Hinton. Professor Hinton will spend time at Google's Toronto office and several months of the year at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA. This announcement comes on the heels of a $600,000 gift Google awarded Professor Hinton's research group to support further work in the area of neural nets. </div></div></div>

Google acquires neural network startup that may help it hone speech recognition and more

Mountain View has just picked up some experts on deep neural networks with their acquisition of DNNresearch, which was founded last year...

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Netgear buys Sierra Wireless' AirCard unit

acquisition, deal, hotspot, minipost, modem, netgear, router, SierraWireless 1/29/2013 - GreenZoner egypt

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><hr /> <div class="image-container" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="Sierra Wireless AirCard 76x hotspot" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/02/sierrawireless-cardsjtjt.png" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> Sierra Wireless<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7080182682816192337"> will be a very familiar name to many travelers who've depended on a hotspot or modem to keep their laptop online. Let's hope they aren't overly comfortable with the brand: Netgear just snapped up the assets of Sierra Wireless' AirCard business, which covers many of the portable 3G and 4G devices we hold dear. The $138 million, 160-employee deal gives Netgear the resources it wants to make a big push into LTE access devices. Sierra Wireless, meanwhile, is blunt in describing the handover as a cash grab: the agreement gives it "significant financial resources" for improving its embedded modules and machine-to-machine devices. The deal should thus make sense for both sides as long as it completes in March, although we can't help but feel that it's the end of an era for jet set data users.</a></div></div>

Netgear buys Sierra Wireless' AirCard unit

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Yahoo rumors ahead of Monday's event include $1.1 billion Tumblr buy, Flickr updates

Wavii يؤكد حصول جوجل، يبدأ بتقليص الخدمة الخاصة به

Amazon acquires Goodreads, aims to make better recommendations for Kindle users

Babbel acquires PlaySay in bid to bolster US language learning presence

Belkin acquires Linksys, plans to continue marketing products under both brands

Dropbox acquires Mailbox, teases an email and cloud collaboration

Google acquires neural network startup that may help it hone speech recognition and more

Netgear buys Sierra Wireless' AirCard unit

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