SF News YouTube To Buy S.F.-Based Video Game Streaming Service For $1 Billion According to Hollywood trade magazine Variety, Google and YouTube plan to purchase San Francisco-based video game streaming service Twitch for over $1 billion in cash. Launched in summer of 2011, Twitch was spun
SF News Bored With Reality, Facebook Buys Virtual Reality Startup For $2 Billion Facebook announced Tuesday that it would blow through another $2 billion in cash and common stock to acquire start-up Oculus, makers of Oculus Rift head-mounted virtual reality display. In a Facebook post today,
SF News S.F. Sex Toy Business Slurped Up By Holding Company Local sex device company Jimmyjane has long been heralded as the "Apple of sex toys," creating products that combine slick design with impressive performance (oh, grow up). And they've recently been acquired, which
SF News Facebook To Buy Messaging Service WhatsApp For $19 Billion In Menlo Park today, the 800-pound social networking gorilla announced today that it would acquire popular messaging app WhatsApp for a cool $4 billion in cash and $15 billion in Facebook stock. The