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Ask HN: Why do I never hear of acquisitions outside of the U.S.?

7 pointsdoubt_me5 comments

Or am I being lazy and not looking them up?

Or even an international hacker news where only things non U.S. are allowed?

If you sign up for the newsletter at http://tech.eu/, you get a weekly email with all the EU acquisitions of that week & other interesting news.

For example, this was from last week mail:

What else happened in the European tech industry this week?

  M&A deals, IPO filings and rumours
  Denmark-founded Zendesk filed for an IPO of up to $150   million and acquired Singapore-based competitor Zopim
  The Netherland's Takeaway.com raised $103 million and acquired German competitor Lieferando 
  Spanish travel company eDreams Odigeo opened for trading
  Vivendi agreed to sell SFR to Altice for $23 billion
  French ad tech company Criteo bought French startup AdQuantic
  French native ad tech platform Adyoulike acquired British content service and native network Content Amp for $2.5 million
  Munich's Deal United is insolvent
  Belgian HR company Prato acquired recruitment software firm Actonomy 
  Ovum and Informa Telecoms & Media Research announced intention to merge
  Security solutions company INSIDE Secure acquired   Scotland-headquartered mobile payment security technology company Metaforic

There have been a number of acquisitions of companies outside the US. Waze (Israel) by Google was the most recent and most high-profile. FlexyCore (also by Google) was a French startup. doo.net (German) got a serious offer from Dropbox but declined.

I think you're being lazy and not looking them up.

There are lot of wonderful startups that don't get featured on HN.

* Little Eye Labs (Bangalore) got acquired by Facebook. [http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-...]

* Flipkart (India's largest e-commerce store) is looking to acquire Myntra (India's best online apparels store). [http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/indias-flipkart-nears-330m-...]

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-ac...)

A month ago I made a list of well-known Danish startups, and many of them have had US funding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391809

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