The rumor is true! Microsoft has confirmed that they will in fact be acquiring Tellme Networks. Everybody knew it was coming (despite both parties denying it), it was just a matter of when.

eBay is at it again! Their list already includes PayPal, Shopping.com, and Skype ,with PayPal by far being the most successful buy, and adding to the acquisition list is StubHub.  Some call it a ticket reseller, others call in ticket scalpers, it's really all the same thing and it just might be a good buy.  eBay has been struggling recently with 100 million invested into a China eBay that has failed, along with a market value that has gone down 37 billion over the past two years (that's around 50%).  Right now they're in a position where they are seeking out other e-commerce avenues to help them stay afloat.

Yahoo! has announced their first acquisition of 2007, MyBlogLog! Yahoo swept up MyBlogLog after only 3-4 months of release to the public.  The estimated purchase price was $10-12 million. At the beginning of December, we decided we wanted to get in on the popular community for blogger's.

The last two years have been big years for Yahoo on many levels, but particularly when it comes to companies they have acquired. Hot start-up companies are often times looking for their big payday from giants like Yahoo.

No, they haven't merged..... yet. But, an AOL-Yahoo merge is rumored, looks rather attractive, and one source says that 2007 is the year for this. Another source agrees, but offers an additional possibility of AOL and Yahoo to be acquired by another company such as Microsoft. With Time Warner considering the option of selling AOL, who knows what will happen with the future of AOL.

First I'll start with Google's acquisition of Jotspot. As if they didn't get there hands on enough when they bought YouTube Google went and paid an unknown amount to buy the wiki company known as Jotspot. As Google Blogoscoped points out in the screenshots they took Jotspot already has the look and feel that Google services currently have.

Adobe didn't want to be left out in the time when everyone is buying everyone so they stepped up and purchased Serious Magic for an undisclosed amount. Actually, this is one of the most logical purchases that I have seen in a long time.

There has been all kinds of buzz around the Internet in the last 24-hours regarding acquisition rumors that Google is going after YouTube for the sum of $1.6 billion. From the sounds of it there is much more than speculation involved but the discussions are still in the very early stages and could end at any time.

It looks like Google is finally stepping it up a notch when it comes to integrating photo recognition into Picasa. Google recently acquired Neven Vision which will be used to help improve the photo searching capabilities that their photo manager has. The Official Google Blog makes the acquisition sound pretty exciting:

After months of denying any claims it looks as though Dell and Alienware have stepped up and finalized the acquisition. Dell has been looking to get into the gaming industry for quite some time now and they did it in a way that upsets many people. People are worried that Alienware is going to go downhill from this point.