List of mergers and acquisitions by Twitter
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Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 280 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio.
Acquisitions
Date | Company | Business | Country | Price (USD) | Category | References |
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July 15, 2008 | Summize | Social search | ![]() |
[1] | ||
November 24, 2008 | Values of n | Social software development | [2] | |||
December 23, 2009 | Mixer labs | Location information engine | $5.17 million (in stock)[3] | [4] | ||
April 9, 2010 | Atebits | Tweetie | ![]() |
Mobile Twitter app (iOS) | [5] | |
April 23, 2010 | Cloudhopper | Mobile messaging | [6] | |||
June 10, 2010 | Smallthought Systems | Databases and analytics | Analytics tools | [7] | ||
December 21, 2010 | Fluther | Q&A service | [8] | |||
May 25, 2011 | TweetDeck | Web and desktop client | ![]() |
$40 million | [9] | |
June 1, 2011 | AdGrok | Advertising | [10] | |||
July 5, 2011 | BackType | Social analytics | [11] | |||
August 8, 2011 | Bagcheck | Social sharing and discovery | [12] | |||
September 21, 2011 | Julpan | Real-time social search engine | [13] | |||
November 28, 2011 | Whisper Systems | Mobile privacy and security | [14] | |||
January 19, 2012 | Summify | Social news | [15] | |||
January 24, 2012 | Dasient | Internet security | Revenue team | [16] | ||
March 12, 2012 | Posterous | Blogging platform | [17] | |||
April 16, 2012 | Hotspots.io | Social media intelligence | ![]() |
Revenue engineering team | [18] | |
May 10, 2012 | RestEngine | Personalized email marketing | ![]() |
[19] | ||
June 4, 2012 | Nclud | Boutique design agency | [19] | |||
August 13, 2012 | Clutch.IO | A/B tester | Design | [20] | ||
October 9, 2012 | Vine | Video sharing service | $30 million | [21] | ||
October 16, 2012 | Cabana | Mobile app building software | [22] | |||
January 28, 2013 | Crashlytics | Crash reporting | $100 million+ | [23] | ||
February 6, 2013 | Bluefin Labs | Social TV analytics | ![]() |
$80 million | [23] | |
November 1, 2012 | We Are Hunted | Music service | ![]() |
[24][25] | ||
May 9, 2013 | Ubalo | Large-scale computing | [26] | |||
May 13, 2013 | Lucky Sort | Big Data visualization | [27] | |||
June 19, 2013 | Spindle Labs | Local discovery | ![]() |
[28] | ||
August 2, 2013 | Locomatix | ![]() |
[29] | |||
August 13, 2013 | Marakana | Training services | [30] | |||
August 28, 2013 | Trendrr | Advertising solutions | [31] | |||
September 9, 2013 | MoPub | Advertising solutions | $350 million | [32] | ||
March 31, 2014 | Mesagraph | Social TV | ![]() |
[33] | ||
March 31, 2014 | SecondSync | Social TV | ![]() |
[33] | ||
April 7, 2014 | Cover | Android lockscreen app | [34] | |||
April 15, 2014 | Gnip | Data reseller | $134 million | [35][36] | ||
June 5, 2014 | Namo Media | Native mobile advertising | $50 million | MoPub | [37] | |
June 5, 2014 | TapCommerce | Mobile app install ads | $100 million | [38] | ||
June 19, 2014 | SnappyTV | Live clipping service | [39][40] | |||
July 29, 2014 | CardSpring | Payment application platform | Commerce | [41][42] | ||
July 17, 2014 | Madbits | Deep learning | ![]() |
Twitter Cortex | [43] | |
August 1, 2014 | Mitro | Password security | [44] | |||
October 25, 2014 | Twitpic | Photo-sharing website | [45] | |||
January 20, 2015 | ZipDial | Mobile marketing and analytics | ![]() |
[46][47][48][49] | ||
February 11, 2015 | Niche | Advertising and software | [50][51] | |||
March 9, 2015 | Periscope | Live-video streaming | $50-100 million | [52] | ||
April 2, 2015 | TenXer | Collaboration platform | under $50 million | [53] | ||
April 28, 2015 | TellApart | Advertising | $479 million | [54] | ||
June 17, 2015 | Whetlab | Machine learning | ![]() |
Twitter Cortex | [55] | |
October 21, 2015 | Fastlane | Deployment services | [56] | |||
October 21, 2015 | ZeroPush | Push notification services | ![]() |
[57][58] | ||
April 8, 2016 | Peer | Employee and manager feedback tool | ![]() |
[59] | ||
June 20, 2016 | Magic Pony Technology | Advanced video upscaling, compression and enhancement | ![]() |
$150 million | [60] | |
December 1, 2016 | Yes, Inc | Social apps developer | ![]() |
[61] | ||
June 21, 2018 | Smyte | Spam & fraud prevention service | ![]() |
$65 million | [62][63] | |
April 17, 2019 | Highly | Highlight sharing application | [64] | |||
Jun 3, 2019 | Fabula AI | Geometric deep learning & fake-news detection | ![]() |
[65] | ||
Nov 21, 2019 | Aiden.ai | AI-powered digital marketing | ![]() |
[66] | ||
Feb 19, 2020 | Chroma Labs | Visual Stories App | ![]() |
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May 12, 2020 | CrossInstall | Programmatic interactive mobile ads at scale | ![]() |
See also
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Facebook
- List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo!
- Mergers and acquisitions
References
- ^ "Confirmed: Twitter Acquires Summize Search Engine". TechCrunch. 2008-07-15. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Buys Start-up's Assets; Hires Founder Rael Dornfest". WashingtonPost.com. 2008-11-24. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ Gannes, Liz. "Looks Like Twitter Paid Mixer Labs $5.17M in Stock". Giga Om. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ^ "Twitter Buys Startup To Help With Geolocation". Business Insider. 2009-12-23. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires Tweetie". TechCrunch. 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ Thau, Kevin (2010-04-23). "Cloudhopping". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ Van, Jennifer (2010-06-10). "Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems to Integrate Analytics Tools". Mashable.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Fluther Flocks to Twitter". Twitter. 2010-12-21. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ Costolo, Dick (2011-05-25). "All Decked Out". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter buys AdGrok to build its monetization platform | VentureBeat | Social | by Tom Cheredar". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires Social Analytics Platform BackType". TechCrunch. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Down forever". BagCheck. 2013-09-24. Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires Julpan, The Startup By The Guy Who Helped Perfect Google Search". TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ McCarty, Brad (2011-11-28). "Twitter Acquires Whisper Systems". TheNextWeb.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Social News Startup Summify". TechCrunch. 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ Panzarino, Matthew (2012-01-24). "Twitter Acquires Internet Security Company Dasient". Thenextweb.com. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Welcoming the Posterous team to the flock". Twitter. 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ Rowley, Jason (2012-04-16). "Twitter Acquires Hotspots.io". Techli. Archived from the original on 2014-01-04. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ a b "Twitter Buys Personalized Email Marketer RestEngine To Deliver Best Tweet Digests". TechCrunch. 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires Nclud for International Facelift". WebProNews. 2012-06-04. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ Ingrid Lunden (2012-10-16). "Twitter Acqui-Hires Mobile App Development Platform Cabana, Shuts It Down". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2014-10-22.
- ^ Peter Kafka and Mike Isaac (2012-10-09). "Twitter Buys Vine, a Video Clip Company That Never Launched". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ a b "Twitter's Boston Acquisitions: Crashlytics Tops $100M, Bluefin Labs Close Behind". Xconomy. 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Makes Big Acquisition, Buys Social TV Analytics Company Bluefin Labs". Business Insider. 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ Rowghani, Ali (2013-02-05). "Welcoming Bluefin Labs to the Flock". Twitter. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo". TechCrunch. 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires Data-Mining Startup Lucky Sort". DowJones.com. 2013-05-13. Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter to Acquire U.W.-Madison Start-Up Locomatix". Retrieved 2014-03-27.
- ^ "Twitter buys Boston startup, Spindle Labs, its third local acquisition this year". Boston.com. 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Buys Open Source Training Company Marakana To Power New "Twitter University" For Engineers". TechCrunch. 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "With Trendrr Acquisition, Twitter Continues To Beef Up Its Social TV Efforts". TechCrunch. 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "Twitter Buys MoPub For $350M To Up The Ante In Mobile Advertising". TechCrunch. 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ a b Lunden, Ingrid (2014-03-31). "Twitter Buys France's Mesagraph And UK's SecondSync To Ramp Up Social TV Efforts In Europe". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (2014-04-17). "Twitter Acquires Android Lockscreen App Cover, Moves Deeper Into Mobile Services". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ Wagner, Kurt (2014-08-11). "Twitter Paid $134 Million for Gnip". Recode. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ Etherington, Darrell (2014-04-15). "Twitter Acquires Longtime Partner And Social Data Provider Gnip". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "Twitter Buys Mobile Native Ad Startup Namo Media For Around $50M". TechCrunch. 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2014-07-05.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires TapCommerce as It Rolls Out Mobile-App Install Ads". Wall Street Journal. 2013-06-30. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
- ^ Etherington, Darrell (2014-06-19). "Twitter Acquires SnappyTV To Expand Offerings For Live Media Partners". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "SnappyTV is joining the flock". blog.twitter.com. 2014-06-19. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires Payment Startup CardSpring For Real-Time Commerce". Business Insider. 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- ^ "Welcoming CardSpring to the Twitter team". Twitter. 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2014-07-17.
- ^ "Twitter acquires deep learning startup Madbits". Gigaom. 2014-07-29. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
- ^ "Mitro is joining Twitter and is now open source". Mitro Labs. 2014-08-01. Archived from the original on 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ^ D'Orazio, Dante (2014-10-25). "Twitpic saved by Twitter just hours before planned shut down". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "Twitter acquires Indian mobile platform startup ZipDial". The Next Web. January 20, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
- ^ Yuthika Bhargava. "Twitter acquires Indian start-up ZipDial". The Hindu. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ Saritha Rai (20 January 2015). "Twitter Acquires India-Based 'Missed Call' Startup ZipDial". Forbes. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ Vardaan. "It's Official, ZipDial Acquired By Twitter In A Deal At $30-$40 Million". IndianWeb2. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
- ^ Ha, Anthony (2015-02-11). "Twitter Acquires Niche, A Startup That Helps Advertisers Work With Social Media Celebrities". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "Welcoming Niche to the Twitter team". blog.twitter.com. 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ Shontell, Alyson (2015-03-09). "Twitter quietly bought a video startup that hasn't launched yet, Periscope". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (2015-04-02). "Confirmed: Twitter Buys TenXer For Under $50M To Improve Its Tools For Engineers". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid. "Twitter Ended Up Paying $479M For Ad Tech Startup TellApart, 10-K Reveals". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
- ^ "Twitter Acquires Machine Learning Startup Whetlab". TechCrunch. 2015-06-17. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
- ^ Weinberger, Matt (2015-10-21). "Twitter buys Fastlane, a popular tool for building iPhone apps, and adds Android support". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "ZeroPush has joined Twitter!". ZeroPush. October 21, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
- ^ "Developer tool ZeroPush gets acquired by Twitter". Technically Philly. October 23, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
- ^ Weber, Harrison (2016-04-08). "Twitter acquires employee feedback tool Peer". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (2016-06-20). "Twitter pays up to $150M for Magic Pony Technology, which uses neural networks to improve images". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "Twitter buys startup Yes, Inc. and scores a new VP of product in the process".
- ^ Perez, Sarah. "Twitter acquires anti-abuse technology provider Smyte". TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ "Smyte acquired by Twitter". Crunchbase.com. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Constine, Josh (2019-04-17). "Twitter acquihires highlight sharing app Highly". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- ^ "Twitter acquires Fabula AI to strengthen its machine learning expertise". blog.twitter.com. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ^ "London Martech Firm Aiden.ai Acquired by Twitter". Retrieved 2019-11-21.