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Ask HN: Why do I never hear of acquisitions outside of the U.S.?

7 points by doubt_me 12y ago

Or am I being lazy and not looking them up? Or even an international hacker news where only things non U.S. are allowed?

benwilber0 12y ago
There have been a number of acquisitions of companies outside the US. Waze (Israel) by Google was the most recent and most high-profile. FlexyCore (also by Google) was a French startup. doo.net (German) got a serious offer from Dropbox but declined. I think you're being lazy and not looking them up.
Hamatti 12y ago
I think most of the news sites, including Hacker News is really focused on Silicon Valley and NYC startups so unless there's company from outside US acquired to a hot US company, it's really rare for it to be in news. One big acquisition lately outside US was SoftBank buying Supercell for $1.5B (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/net-us-softbank-acquisition-idUSBRE99E0ID20131016 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/net-us-softbank-ac...)
zodvik 12y ago
There are lot of wonderful startups that don't get featured on HN. * Little Eye Labs (Bangalore) got acquired by Facebook. [http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-myntra-deal-as-common-investors-push-to-fight-amazon-ebay/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-...] * Flipkart (India's largest e-commerce store) is looking to acquire Myntra (India's best online apparels store). [http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-myntra-deal-as-common-investors-push-to-fight-amazon-ebay/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-...]
workhere-io 12y ago
A month ago I made a list of well-known Danish startups, and many of them have had US funding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391809
Vomzor 12y ago
If you sign up for the newsletter at http://tech.eu/ http://tech.eu/, you get a weekly email with all the EU acquisitions of that week & other interesting news. For example, this was from last week mail: What else happened in the European tech industry this week? M&A deals, IPO filings and rumours Denmark-founded Zendesk filed for an IPO of up to $150 million and acquired Singapore-based competitor Zopim The Netherland's Takeaway.com raised $103 million and acquired German competitor Lieferando Spanish travel company eDreams Odigeo opened for trading Vivendi agreed to sell SFR to Altice for $23 billion French ad tech company Criteo bought French startup AdQuantic French native ad tech platform Adyoulike acquired British content service and native network Content Amp for $2.5 million Munich's Deal United is insolvent Belgian HR company Prato acquired recruitment software firm Actonomy Ovum and Informa Telecoms & Media Research announced intention to merge Security solutions company INSIDE Secure acquired Scotland-headquartered mobile payment security technology company Metaforic

7 points by doubt_me 12y ago

Or am I being lazy and not looking them up? Or even an international hacker news where only things non U.S. are allowed?

benwilber0 12y ago

There have been a number of acquisitions of companies outside the US. Waze (Israel) by Google was the most recent and most high-profile. FlexyCore (also by Google) was a French startup. doo.net (German) got a serious offer from Dropbox but declined. I think you're being lazy and not looking them up.

Hamatti 12y ago

I think most of the news sites, including Hacker News is really focused on Silicon Valley and NYC startups so unless there's company from outside US acquired to a hot US company, it's really rare for it to be in news. One big acquisition lately outside US was SoftBank buying Supercell for $1.5B (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/net-us-softbank-acquisition-idUSBRE99E0ID20131016 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/net-us-softbank-ac...)

zodvik 12y ago

There are lot of wonderful startups that don't get featured on HN. * Little Eye Labs (Bangalore) got acquired by Facebook. [http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-myntra-deal-as-common-investors-push-to-fight-amazon-ebay/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-...] * Flipkart (India's largest e-commerce store) is looking to acquire Myntra (India's best online apparels store). [http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-myntra-deal-as-common-investors-push-to-fight-amazon-ebay/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-...]

workhere-io 12y ago

A month ago I made a list of well-known Danish startups, and many of them have had US funding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391809

Vomzor 12y ago

If you sign up for the newsletter at http://tech.eu/ http://tech.eu/, you get a weekly email with all the EU acquisitions of that week & other interesting news. For example, this was from last week mail: What else happened in the European tech industry this week? M&A deals, IPO filings and rumours Denmark-founded Zendesk filed for an IPO of up to $150 million and acquired Singapore-based competitor Zopim The Netherland's Takeaway.com raised $103 million and acquired German competitor Lieferando Spanish travel company eDreams Odigeo opened for trading Vivendi agreed to sell SFR to Altice for $23 billion French ad tech company Criteo bought French startup AdQuantic French native ad tech platform Adyoulike acquired British content service and native network Content Amp for $2.5 million Munich's Deal United is insolvent Belgian HR company Prato acquired recruitment software firm Actonomy Ovum and Informa Telecoms & Media Research announced intention to merge Security solutions company INSIDE Secure acquired Scotland-headquartered mobile payment security technology company Metaforic