Network-security hardware vendor WatchGuard Technologies, based in Seattle, has acquired the HawkEye G threat-detection and response technology from Hexis Cyber Solutions, of Hanover, Md. WatchGuard, which is privately held, paid $ 3 million in cash and 1.7 million shares, plus other consideration, according to an SEC...
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After Rovi buys TiVo, company might stop making its own hardware
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Rovi, the company that's buying TiVo, isn't very interested in staying in the hardware business.
The combined company will be looking to partner with set-top box makers instead of continuing to sell set-top boxes directly to consumers, Rovi Chief Financial Officer Peter Halt said at an investors conference last week. (See transcript and this Light Reading article.)
Halt noted...
Paul Allen’s Vulcan buys glam Hollywood hotel for $40.9M
The real estate arm of Paul Allen’s investment company Vulcan Inc. announced the $ 40.9 million purchase of the Redbury Hotel in Hollywood on Thursday.
The boutique hotel,...
GM buys Uber rival Sidecar, which shut down in December
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General Motors has acquired the technology and most of the employees behind the now-defunct ride-hailing startup Sidecar, according to Bloomberg. Sidecar Co-founder and CEO Sunil Paul will apparently not be joining the company, but no explanation was given as to why.
The deal bolsters GM’s move into the driverless quasi-taxi space—earlier...
Univision buys controlling stake in The Onion, Clickhole, AV Club (really)
A Tuesday announcement from Univision sent copyeditors and fact-checkers scrambling to secure confirmation that, no, this was not a satirical headline ripped from the pages of satirical news site The Onion: "Spanish-language television network buys controlling stake in The Onion."
Turns out, the news checks out, by way of the network becoming a "minority investor" of the combined entity known as Onion...
Meat industry ignores FDA, health experts, buys more antibiotics
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Despite recent efforts by health experts, doctors, and the Food and Drug Administration to pull the meat industry away from its heavy use of antimicrobials, livestock producers seem to have dug in their heels.
From 2009 to 2014, the amount of antimicrobials sold and distributed for use in livestock increased by 22 percent, according to an...
Amazon buys thousands of truck trailers in latest move to take shipping into its own hands
Amazon purchased thousands of truck trailers to ship merchandise between distribution facilities, the company announced Friday. The move isn’t completely novel, as traditional retailers — like Walmart — have owned their own trucking fleets for years. But for Amazon, the...