Mergers and Acquisitions

Mysterious entity acquires TwitPic, saving it from death

Shareholders approve Safaricom acquisition of YuMobile

Red Hat acquires FeedHenry to get mobile app chops

Cisco acquires OpenStack cloud provider

Privately held Metacloud provides OpenStack-as-a-service for global enterprises.

Micro Focus buying Novell, Suse Linux owner for $1.2 billion

Mail.Ru buys rest of Russia’s VKontakte, ending shareholder dispute

Cisco gains strength in next-gen firewalls via Sourcefire code

Integration of Sourcefire IPS and malware protection with Cisco ASA firewall has been sought by users

Oracle to acquire content storage management company Front Porch Digital

Google acquires online survey specialist Polar

HP buys cloud provider Eucalyptus, Marten Mickos to lead HP Cloud