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April
2005
Mergers and Acquistions, 2004-2005
| Mergers/Acqusitions | Date of Acquisition | Price | News source URL |
| Search engine Google has purchased web analytics system developer Urchin Software | 31-Mar-05 | $30 million | Weboptimiser.com |
| Private equity funds provider Francisco Partners acquired WebTrends business unit of NetIQ. | 31-Mar-05 | Unknown | Weboptimiser.com |
| Yahoo acquired Flickr. | 21-Mar-05 | Unknown | Webrankinfo.com/ |
| Ask Jeeves Inc. has bought Bloglines | February 08 2005 | Unknown | Technology.updates.com |
| InterSearch Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ISGP) has completed its merger with Walnut Ventures, Inc., a San Francisco-based owner and operator of several performance based PPC search engine properties and search enhancing products . | Dec. 13, 2004 | Unknown | Tmcnet.com |
| CGI holding the parent company of WebSourced, Inc. announced to merge MarketSmart into its business. | Nov 17 2004 | Unknown | Technology.updates.com |
| Google bought Digital Mapping Company. | Oct 27 2004 | Unknown | Pcworld.com |
| Yahoo bought e-mail software company Stata Labs | Oct 22 2004 | Unknown | Pcworld.com |
| Red Hat acquired security, authentication tools from AOL | Sep 30 2004 | $23 million | PCworld.com |
| Looksmart bought Furl.net | Sep 25 2004 | Unknown | Pandia.com |
| IAC(InteractiveCorp’s Chairman ) Acquired Ask Jeeves | 23-Sep-04 | $1.85 Billion | Technewsworld.com |
| Yahoo and Musicmatch signed a definitive agreement under which Yahoo will acquire Musicmatch | 23-Sep-04 | $160 million | Realseo.com |
| Aol Bought Mailblocker to fight Spam | 04-Aug-04 | $160 million | PCworld.com |
| Yahoo! Finance - Espotting Media, Europe’s leading paid listings provider and FindWhat.com, approved the merger between the two companies | 1-Jul-04 | Unknown | Searchengineguide.com |
| Ask Jeeves bought Excite and iWon.com | March 5 2004 | Unknown | Weboptimiser.com |
| YAHOO! to acquire KELKOO | Mar 26 2004 | Unknown | Docs.yahoo.com |
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