Buys News

Musician Taylor Swift has purchased a Rhode Island mansion that was on the market for $20 million. She bought the home for $17 million in cash.

US based company, Cisco Systems, is continuing to build its offerings for mobile carriers, as the company is getting ready to acquire Ubiquisys, a small-cell manufacturer.

On Tuesday, Yahoo announced that it had acquire a small startup called OnTheAir, which specializes in broadcasting video chats or interviews to audiences online.

On Thursday Morning, Cisco announced their plans to acquire Cariden Technologies for approximately $141 million in cash.

Bayer, a German pharmaceutical and chemical company, acquired vitamins maker Schiff Nutrition Inc. for around $1.2 billion.

Time Warner has confirmed that it has bought Bleacher Report, an American digital sports media network, and the division will be part of the Turner Sports division.

Yammer is a social networking website that Microsoft decided to purchase. Microsoft confirmed that it bought Yammer for $1.2 billion.

Skype is going to acquire group messaging service GroupMe, which was created back in 2012 at a Hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York.

The world's largest video-game retailer, Gamestop Corp., agreed to buy France's Micromania for $700 million, including the debt, to enter Europe's second-biggest video game market.

Paul Brant paid $25,000 in coins to purchase a new Dodge Ram pickup truck from the coin collection he gathered over the years in pennies, quarters and other coins. He also bought another car 13 years ago in a similar manner.