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    1. Ibibo Group To Acquire Online Bus Booking Portal redBus.in: Sources

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      South African media conglomerate Naspers is looking to acquire a majority stake in the online bus booking portal redBus.in, through its subsidiary and Ibibo owner MIH Group and is currently in advanced stages of talks, reports The Times Of India, citing sources who are directly familiar with the matter. The report says that MIH Group is picking up [...]
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      Mentions: Naspers Ibibo Inventus Capital

    2. Weekly Digest (07th-14th June 2013)

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      MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: CCAvenue, E2E, Spice Digital and Times Internet for their support. Investment & M&A - OpenTable Acquires Mobile Tech Startup Just Chalo For $11 Million - Video Recruiting Solutions Firm InterviewMaster Raises Funds From VentureNursery - Logistics Company Delhivery Acquires Gharpay’s Offline Cash Collection Network - Delivery Hero Invests Over $5M in TastyKhana - Indian Government [...]
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      Mentions: Spice Digital Investment & M&A

    3. OpenTable Acquires Mobile Tech Startup Just Chalo For $11 Million

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      US-based online restaurant booking service OpenTable has acquired the Mumbai-based mobile technology firm Just Chalo for $11 million in stock and cash. The company said that following the acquisition, JustChalo employees will join OpenTable’s mobile development team to improve its existing mobile experience for diners and its restaurant customers. OpenTable currently has a mobile site and native [...]
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      Mentions: FutureBazaar Chaupaati Bazaar Kashyap Deorah

    4. Logistics Company Delhivery Acquires Gharpay’s Offline Cash Collection Network

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      Logistics company Delhivery (SSL Logistics) has acquired offline cash collection network of Gharpay which has 750 clients, according to a report by iamwire. Following the acquisition, the Gharpay brand will be owned by Delhivery. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. According to the report, the latest funding round raised by the company will go [...]
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      Mentions: Jet Airways Sequoia Capital India Raju Reddy

    5. Singapore's DealGuru Spins Out Food Delivery Business To Chase New Funding

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      DealGuru, one of the major daily deals sites in Singapore, has spun out its food delivery subsidiary, called FoodRunner. Prior to the new name, the service was called Room Service Deliveries, which DealGuru set up after it acquired Malaysia-based operator, Asian Room Service in October last year. The acquisition was DealGuru’s first big step into the online food delivery business. Before that, it tried its hand with a small service called Dealivery.sg, run as a subsection of its deals site for about six months. Since it bought Asian Room Service, DealGuru expanded its presence out of Singapore, into ...
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      Mentions: URL Foodpanda

    6. Google Acquires Navigation App Waze For Real Time Traffic Data

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      Google has acquired Israeli location based service startup Waze for an undisclosed amount. In a blogpost, Google states that the Waze product development team will continue to work in Israel and will operate separately for now. While Google has not disclosed the exact amount for which it acquired the company, Israeli tech blog GeekTime puts the final number [...]
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      Mentions: BlueRun Ventures Google Tweet Google

    7. Havas Media Acquires Big Data Analytics Firm MFG Labs

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      Digital Communications & Analytics conglomerate Havas Media Group has acquired mathematical analytics company MFG Labs to augment its own offering. The company will soon infuse the technologies & algorithms developed by MFG within its core functions. What can MFG Labs offer Havas? Founded merely 4 years ago, the company is already a strong player in [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency
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    8. Games2Win Buys Backyard Game FactoRy For An Undisclosed Sum

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      In a bid to further strengthen its position as a top online gaming firm, Games2Win has acquired a Delhi based casual game studio Backyard FactoRy. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Speaking about the acquisition Alok Kejriwal – Co-Founder & CEO of Games2win said, “We have had a long working relationship with Backyard [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency
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      Mentions: ICICI Bank Alok Kejriwal Games2Win

    9. Games2win Acquires Backyard Games FactoRy

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      Mumbai based Games2win has acquired Backyard Game FactorRy, a casual games studio based in Delhi for an undisclosed amount. Rahul Jaiswal, CEO at Backyard Games FactoRy, will continue to head the company. Founded in 2010, Backyard Game FactoRy offers flash based games, social games (Facebook), Android and iOS based games. Its clients include Zapak, Volkswagen, Star Plus, among [...]
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      Mentions: Alok Kejriwal Games2Win Volkswagen

    10. India’s Ecommerce Deadpool – Till June 2013

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      The E-commerce industry in India is going through some turbulent times, and websites are either shutting down or being acquired. Here’s a quick overview of all the ecommerce companies that have either shut shop or been acquired this year. June 4, 2013: 21Diamonds.in, sold jewelry, backed by Rocket Internet (via iamwire) May 29, 2013: Flyte, sold music, [...]
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    11. OnMobile’s Big RBT Bet: Acquires LiveWire For $17.8 Million Plus Liabilities

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      OnMobile Global is putting most- of not all – its eggs in the caller ringback tone basket (CRBT): it has signed an agreement to acquire LiveWire Mobile, a Boston headquartered provider of caller ringback tone services, as well as stock of Fonestarz Media Ltd, a UK based managed services of LiveWire, for a total consideration [...]
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    12. Valnet Inc Acquires Luxury Site BornRich.com

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      Canada based Valnet Inc has acquired BornRich.com, an online luxury site that covers lifestyle content, for an undisclosed amount. While the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, BornRich Founder Nandini Rathi has informed MediaNama that following the acquisition, she has exited the venture and has moved on to Instamedia founder Ankit Maheshwari’s BetaOut, handling its marketing [...]
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      Mentions: Samir Bangara Vishal Gondal Ankit Maheshwari

    14. FakingNews Gets Acquired By FirstPost

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      This is the second acquisition news today and one of the first ones in its category. The popular Indian satire website, FakingNews has been acquired by the country’s first digital only news publication, FirstPost. FirstPost is owned by Network18 which runs a variety of businesses targeting various segments like e-commerce, television, digital content etc. FakingNews [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency
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    15. Online Handicrafts Marketplace Shopo.in Gets Acquired By Snapdeal

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      Snapdeal, one of the major players in the Indian e-commerce space has acquired Indian designer and handcrafts marketplace, Shopo.in. The startup has been operational since the last 2 years and had raised its initial seed funding from Sequoia Capital, Sashi Reddi and others. The financial terms of this acquisition have not been disclosed. The startup [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency
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      Mentions: Sequoia Capital India Sashi Reddi Kunal Bahl

    16. Snapdeal Acquires Handicraft Marketplace Shopo.in

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      Online Marketplace Snapdeal.com has acquired Shopo.in for an undisclosed amount.At the time of writing this article, Shopo has put up a note on its website, saying that it is now part of Snapdeal. We have contacted Snapdeal for more information on this acquisition and will update once we get a response. Launched in 2011, Shopo is an online [...]
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      Mentions: NGO SnapDeal Apurva Chaudhary

    17. Zee News To Merge Its Broadcasting Biz With DNA

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      Zee News Ltd has informed BSE that it has received an in-principle approval from the company’s board to merge its news broadcasting business with Diligent Media Corporation Limited’s news publication business, which currently prints and publishes the English daily newspaper ‘DNA‘. The company notes that this merger was decided considering the growth plans of the company and to [...]
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      Mentions: Dainik Bhaskar Group Media Research Users Council

    18. Yahoo Scoops Up Another Start-up, Buys Gaming Platform PlayerScale

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      Yahoo has continued its acquisition spree and bought yet another start-up, not big as Tumblr though. In a bid to expand itself in the gaming arena, Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale, which makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but PlayerScale will not shut down after the buyout. “Today we acquired PlayerScale. We intend [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency
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      Mentions: AFP Leading Social Media Agency Yahoo Sneha Bokil-Paranjape

    19. Dentsu India Acquires An 80% Stake In Digital Agency, WebChutney

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      News has broken that advertising and communications group, Dentsu India has acquired a majority stake in WebChutney, one of the leading digital agencies in the country. We had written earlier that a deal between Dentsu and Webchutney was in the offing but both the companies did not confirm anything. The news now is that Dentsu [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency
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      Mentions: Dentsu India Dentsu Sidharth Rao

    20. Dentsu India Acquires Network18′s Stake In Webchutney

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      Network18′s venture capital arm Capital18 has inked (pdf) an agreement with Dentsu India group to offload its entire stake in the digital advertising agency and consulting firm Webchutney for an undisclosed amount. While the financial terms of this agreement were not disclosed, Network18 informed that this divestment was in line with its strategy of monetizing its investments and claimed the [...]
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      Mentions: Dentsu India Dentsu Network18

    21. Yahoo Acquires Tumblr For $1.1B In All Cash Deal

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      After much speculation, Yahoo has finally announced that it will acquire Tumblr, the blogging platform, for $1.1 Billion in an all cash deal. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the second half of the year. Note that Yahoo has been on acquisition spree since it hired Marissa Mayer to head [...]
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      Mentions: Marissa Mayer Apurva Chaudhary

    22. Weekly Digest (10th-17th May 2013)

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      MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: CCAvenue, E2E, Spice Digital and Times Internet for their support. Earnings-Mar13 - MeritNation In FY13: Rs 9.82Cr Operating Revenues; Rs 21.43Cr Operating EBITDA Loss - OnMobile FY13 Concall: Music Downloads, Unbilled Revenues, Investor Warns Against Any Large Acquisition - OnMobile India Revenues Decline 19.6% In FY13 To Rs 284.5 Cr; Total Revenues Rs [...]
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      Mentions: Spice Digital

    23. Nimbuzz set to acquire license to offer net telephony in India: Report

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      In a bid to move beyond its instant messaging service, app maker Nimbuzz is now planning on offering net telephony in India, BusinessLine reports. The company will try and acquire a new unified license which allows a company to offer voice telephony in addition to Internet services. At present, the license Nimbuzz holds allows it to offer Internet service and the company can only offer voice services outside the country through a Skype-like app. In order to provide that kind of service in India, Nimbuzz will have to wait for the Indian government to pass a proposal for a unified ...
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    24. Mukesh Bansal On Myntra’s Acquisitions & Marketplace Plans – Startup Central

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      Early last month, in an environment of consolidation-driven acquisitions in the domestic e-commerce market, Myntra decided to change lanes. It went to San Francisco to snap up a technology startup called Fitiquette to bring on board the capability of offering its customers a virtual fitting room. Strategic acquisitions, where the acquirer buys a specific capability rather than revenues and [...]
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