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Medellín-based media incubator and parent company of The Sociable, Espacio, announces its partnership with The Bogotá Post and its acquisition of www.thebogotapost.com. As...

Through the acquisition of travel blog Hibiscus & Nomada, the Espacio incubator aims to promote the publication’s growth and to...

Leading English news publication in Peru, Peru Reports, is acquired by the Espacio incubator, and will continue in Founder Colin...

Confirm, the Boston-based government ID authentication startup, has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed fee. Confirm will now terminate...

Espacio Incubator today announces it has acquired PortugalStartups.com, a media publication dedicated to startup and entrepreneurial news in Portugal. Through...

Media incubator Espacio announces today its most recent acquisition of The Tech Panda, a Bangalore-based media publication dedicated to startup and tech...

Publicize PR acquires news publication Techli with the aim of furthering its legacy as the most comprehensive news site on...

Google has acquired parcel pick-up service BufferBox for a figure believed to be in the range of $17 million, reports the Financial Post and TechCrunch.

500px, the photo sharing platform for professionals, has acquired European startup Pulpfingers, a company that develops photo-focussed iOS apps.

Twitter is planning to introduce Instagram-like photo filters to its suite of mobile apps in the "coming months" that will allow users, and more importantly brands, tweet stylised images directly to the service and bypass Instagram.

Microsoft's acquisition of Yammer is officially complete. The closing conditions of the $1.2 billion deal were finalised earlier today.

Irish wedding start-up Mrs2be.ie has purchased similarly-named and suited Welsh company Mrs2.be.com to help bring its brand to an international audience.

Social networks want us to discover more content on their sites, here's how they plan on encouraging us to stay longer.

500px, the fast-growing photography community, has acquired recommendation engine Algo Anywhere to personalise users' content experience and aid image discovery.

Microsoft is reportedly in acquisition talks with enterprise communication service Yammer, with sources close to the matter stating that such a deal may cost Microsoft more than $1 billion, that's according to Bloomberg.

Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility is expected to be completed early next week as Chinese regulators approved last August's $12.5 billion deal yesterday, Saturday.

Facebook has reportedly acquired Gowalla, a travel check-in service used to share and discover interesting places, for an undisclosed sum, according to a CNNMoney report published early this morning.

Google has today announced that they've entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Motorola Mobility for €8.73 billion ($12.5 billion). If approved, this would be Google's largest ever acquisition, four times that of the $3.1 billion paid for DoubleClick in March 2008.

Tony Bates, CEO of Skype, has confirmed in a blog post on the Skype website that Microsoft will acquire the internet voice and video phone service for $8.5 billion. When the acquisition is complete, Skype will become a new business division of Microsoft.

Yahoo!’s once seemingly ill-fated social bookmarking service Delicious has been sold to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen for an undisclosed sum. Delicious will now fold into a newly created internet company AVOS.