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IBM is building out its digital marketing functionality in its Smarter Commerce portfolio with the acquisition of Tealeaf Technology, a provider of customer experience analytics. Tealeaf software records and analyzes customer interactions on a company’s website and any mobile channels it offers. It allows the company to catch any mistakes or glitches in the system that may be hindering the customer experience.
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Just two weeks after forking over more than $1 billion to AOL for hundreds of patents and patent applications, Microsoft resold 650 of them to Facebook on Monday. Each party in this latest transaction will retain licenses to the intellectual property the other will hold when the deal is completed.
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LightSquared made an outstanding payment to Inmarsat Friday for Phase 1 of its spectrum agreement. It received an additional two years to seek federal approval before it must pay for the second phase of the deal. Previously, Inmarsat had said it wasn’t certain it would receive any more payments from LightSquared.
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The European Commission’s competition authority has given an investment group led by Sony the go-ahead to acquire EMI Group’s music-publishing division for US$2.2 billion. The commission’s approval is conditioned on Sony, which is partnering with ATV in this transaction, selling certain music assets and changing some business practices.
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Verizon reported a strong first quarter of 2012, it revealed Thursday, thanks in part to new FiOS and wireless subscribers. Verizon took in $1.69 billion in profit, or 59 cents per share, an increase from the 51 cents per share it reported from the same time last year. The company’s operating revenues were $28.2 billion, up 4.6 percent.
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