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

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...)