Waltham firm to be bought by VeriSign

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UK biotech firm bought for £1.5bn

UK biotech firm bought for £1.5bn 05/18/2004 02:50 AM
The UK's largest biotech firm, Celltech, agrees to be taken over by Belgian drugmaker UCB.

Envoy Communications shares halted on
TSX, firm to raise $15M in bought deal

Envoy Communications shares halted on
TSX, firm to raise $15M in bought deal 04/21/2004 01:07 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Apr 21 2004 5:09PM GMT

Search engine Lycos bought inexpensively
by South Korean website firm

Search engine Lycos bought inexpensively
by South Korean website firm 08/04/2004 11:28 AM

Lycos , one of the leading search engines of the past decade, and owner of Wired News , is to be purchased by Daum Communications , a South Korean web company. The agreed-upon price, $95 million, is:

less than 1 percent of the $12.5 billion Terra paid near the height of the Internet boom.

For next steps,

Terra said it would keep Lycos' European portal business and its Spanish-language portal in the United States, Terra Networks USA .

VeriSign buys managed security firm

VeriSign buys managed security firm 12/17/2003 07:21 AM

VeriSign buys German content firm

VeriSign buys German content firm 05/26/2004 06:17 AM
ZDNet UK May 26 2004 9:55AM GMT

"he bought some ads "

"he bought some ads " 11/03/2003 09:33 PM

I just bought a Mac

I just bought a Mac 09/26/2004 05:22 AM

That's right, I bought a Mac. A cheap iBook, to be exact. I'm not planning to write software for the Mac, but I do want to keep up with the goings-on in the Mac world, and I could also learn a lot from the Mac UI. See, there's one thing that Apple consistently gets right that Microsoft consistently gets wrong: style.

After working with OS-X for a few hours, switching back to Windows is like partying with Charlize Theron then coming home to Kathy Bates. Sure, Kathy Bates is exceptionally talented, but sometimes a little glamour is exciting.

Cnet have bought mp3.com?

Cnet have bought mp3.com? 11/14/2003 05:52 AM

Got an iPod, then bought a Mac?

Got an iPod, then bought a Mac? 03/14/2005 05:23 PM
We want to hear from you. What do you love about your iPod and how did it change the way you enjoy your music? Did you love your iPod so much that you decided to buy a Mac? How did your Mac change the rest of your life? Tell us about the fun new things you’ve discovered you can do on a personal computer. Are you doing more with your photos? Shooting and editing movies? Recording your own songs? We want your personal story of your move to Mac — what you do with it and how it’s made your life all around better. [Mar 11, 2005]

LiveJournal Bought Out

LiveJournal Bought Out 01/06/2005 09:19 AM
LiveJournal, the blogging site, has been bought up by Six Apart, the company behind the MovableType weblog software. The buy-out will see staff working with Danga, the company which previously owned LiveJournal, move to San Francisco to work with the new owners.

LiveJournal's creator, Brad Fitzpatrick, said the move will mean "nothing earth-shattering" for the existing service. However, users are to get access to trackback for the first time. "They're not buying the site to spam you, screw you, destroy the community, or convert you en masse to their other paid services," Fitzpatrick said. "They just want to double our efforts and have a part in all types of blogging. "

Six Apart CEO, Barak Berkowitz, added: "We are now the only company to offer the full range of weblogging tools to the market," he said. "We welcome LiveJournal users to the Six Apart family, and promise to keep the LiveJournal culture and quality which has earned their devotion."

Fitzpatrick promised development of LiveJournal will continue after the move; prices would not rise and free accounts would not be scrapped, he said. Since it started up five years ago, LiveJournal has built up a community of over five million users - it currently claims to have just short of 2.5 million actively-updated blogs on its servers.

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MusicNet Bought Out; Will Try, Try Again

MusicNet Bought Out; Will Try, Try Again 04/13/2005 01:28 AM
Back in the late 90s, as the recording industry noticed (way too late) that the world was passing them by with file sharing, some politicians began to realize that the industry wasn't doing anything other than whining about how the market had changed on them. After some quiet threats from these politicians, the industry realized it had to at least go through the motions of offering music downloads, and so they created and funded two online music services that were both clearly designed to fail miserably, MusicNot and PressPause... er... MusicNet and PressPlay. Since they were terribly designed with high prices and poor selection (the perfect combo!), users pretty much ignore d them. PressPlay was eventually sold off to what's now Napster and MusicNet has chugged along supported almost entirely by AOL, who has rebranded much of the service as their own. Now, however, the company has been sold to some private investors who claim they're going to revitalize the service. Considering the number of weak, expensive, difficult to use, incompatible music download stores out there, it seems unlikely that a company like MusicNet will break the mold any time soon.

Bought a G5 right before the update?

Bought a G5 right before the update? 11/25/2003 10:22 PM
If you purchased a G5 right before yesterday's update, you don't need us to tell you that life sucks. If you want to help heal the wounds, take a look at Apple's price match policy. As long as you didn't get the 1.8GHz, it looks like you can get the difference back. The price match is only good for 10 days before the update, so if you bought before that, life still sucks.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

We bought it to help with your homework

We bought it to help with your homework 05/07/2004 12:02 PM
Hey, Hey, 16K! What does that get you today? Perhaps the best bit of nerd nostalgia since the NESBuckle? Catchy song, dodgy animation, and the disembodied floating head of Clive Sinclair... what more could you ask for? Other than your old C64 back... [via AccordionGuy]

What Might Have Been: Microsoft Almost
Bought SAP

What Might Have Been: Microsoft Almost
Bought SAP 06/07/2004 06:45 PM

What would happen if Microsoft bought
AMD?

What would happen if Microsoft bought
AMD? 12/08/2003 08:04 AM

The House that Jack bought

The House that Jack bought 04/14/2005 06:56 PM
Access to a who's who of "superlobbyist" Jack Abramoff's GOP allies in the House.

Why Tibco bought Staffware

Why Tibco bought Staffware 04/24/2004 06:18 AM
BPM vendors and their stakeholders will be delighted that Tibco Software paid a 40-percent premium to buy Staffware ...

Why Oracle bought Oblix

Why Oracle bought Oblix 03/30/2005 02:07 PM
It's gratifying to see Oracle endorsing several aspects of our analysis of the SOA management market with its purchase ...

Tweenies maker bought for £3.1m

Tweenies maker bought for £3.1m 09/13/2004 03:18 AM
Entertainment Rights buys the maker of popular BBC children's television show The Tweenies for £3.1m.

What if Intelliseek Bought Technorati?

What if Intelliseek Bought Technorati? 04/04/2005 04:28 PM
The more I think about Intelliseek, the more I think they'll either try to muscle Technorati out of their market or they'll buy 'em. Intelliseek's BlogPulse Conversation Tracker is the sort of tool that I expected Technorati to build last year. In fact, I've joked about trying to build it myself using their API. (Could I sell it to them if I did?) And the BlogPulse Trend Search is kinda cool too. Just for kicks, I did a Trend Search...

Ask Jeeves To Be Bought By
Interactivecorp

Ask Jeeves To Be Bought By
Interactivecorp 03/22/2005 09:41 PM

Why Yahoo! bought Oddpost

Why Yahoo! bought Oddpost 07/12/2004 12:38 PM
Adding a new twist to my mention of Oddpost in last Wednesday's item, More on rich clients, Yahoo! just bought the ...

MGM studios to be bought by Sony

MGM studios to be bought by Sony 09/13/2004 08:13 PM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood's last major independent, is set to accept a Sony offer worth $5bn.

OD2 bought by US rival Loudeye

OD2 bought by US rival Loudeye 06/22/2004 12:27 PM
newmediazero Jun 22 2004 5:13PM GMT

Ask Jeeves Inc. to Be Bought for $2
Billion

Ask Jeeves Inc. to Be Bought for $2
Billion 03/22/2005 04:56 PM
IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet company headed by Barry Diller, is close to an agreement to acquire Ask Jeeves Inc., the nation's fourth-largest search engine company.

has reportedly been bought and sold

has reportedly been bought and sold 12/10/2003 05:47 AM
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Store-Bought Halloweenies

Store-Bought Halloweenies 11/01/2003 10:45 AM
RetroCrush recognizes the least popular discount Halloween costumes of the '70s and '80s, including this gem: "What kid didn't want to be 'Leather Guy' from The Village People? At least it's already got a built in protective vinyl coating." (11-01)

Ask Jeeves if it's just bought Tukaroo

Ask Jeeves if it's just bought Tukaroo 06/10/2004 11:38 AM
Spot on

Arcolectric bought out of receivership

Arcolectric bought out of receivership 12/26/2003 01:49 AM
Scotsman Online Dec 26 2003 0:37AM ET

Four CDs I'm damned glad I bought this
weekend

Four CDs I'm damned glad I bought this
weekend 12/22/2003 11:20 AM
I took a stack of used CDs to my corner record store this weekend and traded them in for a bunch of new music. Here are the picks of the litter:

• Deep Note: Music of 1970s Adult Cinema: The title says it all, doesn't it? This is a CD that was made for MP3 players. It's amusing to listen to the "tone poems" of ecstatic chanting layered over wah-wah pedals -- once. But the actual funk tracks on this are really nice, the kind of thing you want to put in a high-rotation playlist for urban walking; think of the fat-bass instrumentals from the Fat Albert theme with a George Clinton's slitheriest, perviest licks.
  

• Five Red Caps: 1943-1945. Steve Gibson and the Five Red Caps were a comic, vocal-oriented boogie-woogie act that released a ton of music in the 30s, 40s and 50s, almost none of which is available today. This disc of wartime tracks contains some of my favorite music of all time: Grand Central Station ("Got a yearning to be/down in Tennessee/got a sweetheart that waits for me/got the biggest brown eyes/that can hypnotize/makes you wanna leave New York"), Mama Put Your Britches On ("Put away your fancy hose/and your dainty dese and dose/what you need now is Victory Clothes/so Mama put your britches on"), and Gabriel's Band ("Better be prepared if you want a part in that heavenly show/or on judgement day they'll find a place for you below/make your trumpet call ring out/hallelujah sing and shout/gotta know what rhythm's 'bout, if you wanna play in Gabriel's Band")
  

• The Beau Hunks Play the Original Little Rascals Music. Roy Shield, the composer of the incidental and theme music for the Little Rascals shorts, was a freaking genius, an unsung hero on the order of Raymond Scott and Carl Stalling. His orchestral music -- faithfully recreated by the Beau Hunks here -- manages to evoke the sepia-toned comedy of the Our Gang serials, especially in some of the really short tracks, like the ten seconds of the woodwind-section laughing; close your eyes when it plays and you can see Spanky holding his gut and rocking back and forth.
  

• Doob Doob O' Rama: Filmsongs of Bollywood: One of my plane-trip books for tomorrow is the bound manuscript for Bruce Sterling's new technothriller (Me: "What's a technothriller?" Bruce: "It's like a science fiction novel, only it's got the President in it"), The Zenith Angle, which apparently revolves around Bollywood (I haven't cracked the cover yet, I'm just going off of the stuff he's been blogging). I really enjoyed the Bollywood tracks on the Ghost World soundtrack and the occassional Bollywood licks in Fat Boy Slim and at my local curry hut, but I had no idea of where to begin. This disc turns out to be just the right place for me to have started. I'm enjoying the hell out of it, and I suspect that Asha Bosle has stolen away Tiny Weymouth's place in my heart as my obligatory rock-star crush.
  

How to return a gift bought online

How to return a gift bought online 12/28/2004 07:39 AM
Woodtv.com - Tue Dec 28, 08:38 am GMT

I will not write about the Giftmas gifts
I bought

I will not write about the Giftmas gifts
I bought 12/22/2004 12:59 AM
Because there are family members reading this little site now (and have been for a while). However, I will say that I was pleasantly surprised at how "normal" the two retail establishments I visited this evening were. Neither felt crowded, featured those annoying bell ringers, and the checkout lines were minimal. Maybe I should have waited a few more days... :-)...

'Snake bite' man bought reptiles

'Snake bite' man bought reptiles 05/22/2004 06:47 PM
Police investigate the death of a Scot in a US rental car say he bought lethal snakes over the internet.

Congrats -- You Bought a Deer Head!

Congrats -- You Bought a Deer Head! 05/25/2004 08:35 AM
Would you believe that the federal government is wasting your money?

Sega to be bought by arcade giant

Sega to be bought by arcade giant 05/19/2004 10:35 AM
ZDNet May 19 2004 1:51PM GMT

Some dumb stuff I bought off iTunes...

Some dumb stuff I bought off iTunes... 07/05/2004 04:43 AM

Over the last two weeks I have bought 53 songs from the iTunes Music Store. I didn't expect to buy any. I just get bored easily and then I'm there, mucking around, roaming around, desperately looking for some new exciting way to throw money away. And yes - it's true that there's a fairly limited selection of music on the store and that is a considerable problem (of the five hundred and fifty odd songs that my iTunes stash considers to be "Five Star", only 135 are anywhere on the store that I can find (Music Store link: One Hundred Pounds of Plastic Perfection). But despite the limited selection, if you dig around it is more than possible to find some really good old classic stuff (The Slits: I Heard it Through the Grapevine) or stuff you've discovered from Audioscrobbler (Modest Mouse's Float On) or really interesting cover versions (Ryan Adams' Wonderwall or (for geeks) They Might be Giants' Whe Does the Sun Shine). And then there's all that stuff that you listened to when you were a teenager or a kid and realistically you can't just go out and buy it because that would be really embarrassing, but you can just download it and - it's not the same as buying it, OK. Which I think excuses some of the cheesier things that I've bought (cough - the shame). And then there's the watching something on TV and just going, "Well I kind of like it, and it's only 79p..." (Music from the OC How Good it Can Be). And the odds and sods of Classical Music that the store actually excels in providing... Like when I needed to listen to Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz about million times at work a couple of weeks back.

Okay - I admit it. The iTunes UK Music Store UK may have opened up a few really good songs for me, but it's also almost forced me to download about a million really cheesy bits of crap. You guys have to save me. Have you found any hidden gems?

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Why Yahoo bought ODDpost - redux

Why Yahoo bought ODDpost - redux 07/12/2004 05:51 PM

Phil Wainwright groks it. He sees past the obvious GMail copycat syndrome to the real issues:

The fact that Yahoo! has bought a browser-based Outlook clone illustrates how big the threat really is to Microsoft's most lucrative products. These rich-client technologies significantly narrow the gap between browser-based applications and their desktop-based rivals. By simultaneously taking advantage of the unique advantages of being net-native — such as efficiencies of scale for information aggregation and analysis — they can combine a good-enough user experience with capabilities that simply aren't available (except at second-hand) within a traditional desktop environment. That opens the way towards Windows-based Outlook becoming an unloved, legacy application — and provides an opening for other good-enough alternatives to Word, Excel and Powerpoint to muscle their way in.

So Microsoft now faces a crucial decision. Does the company do likewise and bring out a rich-client interface for Hotmail so that its web-based email service begins to rival Gmail, Oddpost and, by implication, Outlook in functionality? Or does it continue to bury its head in the sand and put all its efforts into ensuring it delivers an all-new Windows architecture to a declining pool of desktop loyalists?

The battle is over end-user expereinecs folks. That's why small companies like Friendster and Technorati can come out of no where and develop huge followings. If what you provide rocks - they will come.

Having a hot UI front-end is key to that end-user customer satisfaction.

Not a bad card at all. I bought the
Gainward version of the

Not a bad card at all. I bought the
Gainward version of the 08/16/2004 04:43 AM
TechTree Aug 16 2004 8:48AM GMT

Lookout Software Bought by Microsoft

Lookout Software Bought by Microsoft 07/16/2004 08:47 PM
Software Reality Jul 17 2004 0:10AM GMT
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