Mergers & Acquisitions – Page 2

Airties Deal Completed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As it completes its sale to a private equity firm, Providence Equity Partners, Airties has appointed Tony Ball, former chairman of Kabel Deutschland and CEO of BSkyB, as Chairman of the …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Wi-Fi

Xperi Acquires Vewd Software

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xperi said that it had bought Vewd for $109 million. Vewd software is used in more than 30 million connected TVs per year. The transaction will give Xperi access to an …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Smart TV| Tivo

More on the Samsung/Cynora Deal

by Bob Raikes

Last week, when I wrote about the Samsung purchase of the IP from Cynora, I wrote that at Display Daily, we try not to instantly fire off an article as the time for reflection …

Has Samsung Created a Hurdle in the Display Marathon?

by Bob Raikes

We tend not to respond instantly on display industry news in Display Daily. We usually like to stand back a bit and reflect and dig before we post. However today I’m reporting on a …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| OLED Materials| OLEDs

Roku / Netflix Acquisition Rumor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Last week there were rumours that Roku was to be bought by Neflix. Commentators speculated that Netflix could use such an acquisition to accelerate its expected advertising-subsidised membership plans. From Roku’s …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Netflix| Roku

Google Raxium Acquisition is Confirmed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported rumours that Google was to buy Raxium, a developer of MicroLEDs back in March and that deal has now been confirmed in several places. The Information’s Reality Check said …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| Google| Mergers & Acquisitions| MicroLED

Links Week Ending 1st April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. I haven’t been watching audio closely, …

Google has acquired Raxium – a MicroLED Start-up

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has bought Raxium, a five year start-up that has been developing monolithic microLEDs for headset use. The company said on its website that it is developing microLEDs with 3.5 micron …

Tags:Google| Mergers & Acquisitions| Microdisplays| MicroLED

AMD Completed its Purchase of Xilinx

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AMD has completed its purchase of Xilinx after more than a year of processing. Some reports put the deal value at $50 billion as the deal was made based on AMD …

Tags:AMD| FPGAs| Mergers & Acquisitions| Semiconductor Industry| Semiconductors

SoftBank & Nvidia Give up on Arm Transaction

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As had been becoming increasingly likely, Nvidia and SoftBank have given up on their plan for Nvidia to acquire the Arm Ltd subsidiary of SoftBank, citing ‘significant regulatory challenges preventing the …

Tags:Arm| Mergers & Acquisitions| Nvidia

Dolby acquires Millicast for Low Latency Streaming

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dolby said that it had bought Millicast, a specialist in real time low latency. The firm says it can support up to 1 million global viewers with ‘sub-second’ latency with broadcast …

Links Week Ending 28th January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. (quite a few this week as we …