Originally published Monday, December 25, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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ShareNW mergers and acquisition activity was strong this year in the Northwest
Here's a partial list of the local companies that were either bought or sold last year.
| Here's a partial list of the local companies that were either bought or sold last year. | |||||
| Buyer | Location | Purchased | Location | Purchase price | Notes |
| 3GUpload | Seattle | Mophone | Seattle | Undisclosed | The companies received $20 million in funding from VantagePoint Venture Partners, merged to create Mixxer. |
| Advanced Digital Information Corp. | Redmond | Rocksoft | Adelaide, Australia | $63 million | Rocksoft is a software developer. |
| Amazon.com | Seattle | Shopbop.com | Madison, Wis. | Undisclosed | Shopbop.com is a retailer of fashion-forward apparel, shoes and accessories for women. |
| Amdocs | St. Louis | Qpass | Seattle | $275 million | Qpass provided billing and other software for wireless carriers. |
| aQuantive | Seattle | Franchise Gator | Atlanta | $21.5 million | Franchise Gator is a digital-marketing company. |
| Atlas (a division of aQuantive) | Seattle | Accipiter | Raleigh, N.C. | $30.3 million | Accipiter provides technology to Web publishers who sell advertising. |
| AttachmateWRQ | Seattle | NetIQ | San Jose, Calif. | $299.4 million | NetIQ makes software that runs on computer networks. |
| Austin Ventures | Austin, Texas | All Star Directories | Seattle | Undisclosed | All Star Directories remained in Seattle with current president and staffing levels. |
| Avenue A/Razorfish (a division of aQuantive) | Seattle | e-Crusade | Hong Kong | $2.96 million | e-Crusade is a digital marketing-service provider. |
| Big Fish Games | Seattle | FunPause URL | France | Undisclosed | FunPause makes casual games. |
| Concur | Redmond | Outtask | Alexandria, Va. | Up to $88 million | Concur planned to keep Outtask's employees and CEO. |
| Eli Lilly | Indianapolis | Icos | Bothell | $2.1 billion | Pending approval of shareholders. All Icos employees got layoff notices. |
| Foundation 9 Entertainment | Newport Beach, Calif. | Amaze Entertainment | Kirkland | Undisclosed | Amaze remained in Kirkland as a separate entity and retained all its staffers. |
| Francisco Partners | Menlo Park, Calif. | WatchGuard | Seattle | $151 million | Vector Capital also participated. |
| Getty Images | Seattle | iStockphoto | Seattle | Undisclosed | iStockphoto is a stock-photography community. |
| Getty Images | Seattle | Pixel Images Holdings | Ireland | $135 million | Pixel is the parent company of Stockbyte and stockdisc. |
| Getty Images | Seattle | Laura Ronchi S.p.A. | Italy | Undisclosed | Laura Ronchi provides visual content. |
| Gilead | Foster City, Calif. | Corus Pharma | Seattle | $365 million | Corus Pharma remained in Seattle with minor staff reductions. |
| Growth Merger | Nevada | Neah Power | Bothell | Undisclosed | Growth Merger, previously an inactive company, changed its corporate name to Neah Power Systems after the merger. |
| 180 Solutions | Bellevue | Hotbar | Tel Aviv | Undisclosed ($52 million rumored) | The companies merged into a new company called Zango. |
| IBM | Armonk, N.Y. | Vallent | Bellevue | Undisclosed | Acquisition expected to close Q1 of 2007. |
| Intelius | Bellevue | Intellisense | Bothell | Undisclosed | |
| Jobster | Seattle | Jobby | Anchorage | Undisclosed | Jobby provides online résumé platform for online-recruiting services. |
| M2M Holdings | Indianapolis | Onyx Software | Bellevue | $92 million | Onyx became a business unit of Made2Manage Systems. M2M restructured Onyx in August, laying off a substantial number of its employees. |
| Medio Systems | Seattle | WebRelevance | Seattle | Undisclosed | WebRelevance provides contextual advertising services. |
| NetMotion Wireless | Seattle | Padcom | Bethlehem, Pa. | Undisclosed | Merged and operate under NetMotion name, based in Seattle with offices in Bethlehem. |
| Nokia | Finland | Loudeye | Seattle | $60 million | Loudeye stockholders approved the acquisition. |
| Pitney Bowes | Stamford, Conn. | Print Inc. | Kirkland | $47 million | |
| Quantum | San Jose, Calif. | ADIC | Redmond | $770 million | ADIC shareholders approved merger Aug. 18. |
| RealNetworks | Seattle | Zylom Media Group | Eindhoven, Netherlands | $21 million | Zylom publishes PC-based casual games. |
| RealNetworks | Seattle | WiderThan | Seoul, Korea | $350 million | RN planned to retain the WiderThan brand and operate the business as a subsidiary, maintaining existing employees. |
| SeaMobile | Seattle | MTN | Miramar, Fla. | $168 million | SeaMobile and MTN provide wireless service for cruise ships. |
| Serena Software | Menlo Park, Calif. | Pacific Edge Software | Bellevue | Undisclosed | |
| Six Apart | San Francisco | SplashData | Bainbridge Island | Undisclosed | |
| Sony Computer Entertainment | Foster City, Calif. | Zipper Interactive | Redmond | Undisclosed | Zipper remained in Redmond as a separate entity and retained all its staffers. |
| Sprint Nextel | Reston, Va. | Nextel Partners | Kirkland | $6.5 billion | Sprint Nextel was required to purchase Nextel Partners after Sprint and Nextel merged. |
| The Reader's Digest Association | Pleasantville, N.Y. | AllRecipes.com | Seattle | $66 million | |
| VeriSign | Mountain View, Calif. | CallVision | Seattle | $30 million | CallVision provides online analysis applications. |
| Vista Equity Partners | San Francisco | Who's Calling | Kirkland | Undisclosed | Who's Calling was acquired by an investment entity managed by Vista Equity Partners. |
| Who's Calling | Kirkland | ClickPath | Sacramento | Undisclosed | ClickPath is a cross-channel analytics provider. |
| Wireless Services | Bellevue |
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Vienna, Va. | Up to $30 million | Changed corporate name to SinglePoint, remained in Bellevue. |
| Sources: Seattle Times researcher Gene Balk, Bloomberg News | |||||
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