webbmediagroup.com

Cue ($50 million)

virtual personal assistant

PrimeSense ($345 million) semiconductors

Topsy ($200 million)

analytics

Waze ($966 million) crowdsourced

GPS navigation

Flutter ($40 million)

gesture recognition tech

Boston Dynamics

robotics

Nest Labs Inc ($3.2 billion)

connected home

DeepMind Technologies ($650 million)

artificial intelligence

Wavii ($30 million)

natural language processing

Nokia ($7.2 billion)

mobile phone unit

Yammer ($1.2 billion)

social networking

Skype ($8.5 billion)

telecommunications

Xobni ($40 million)

CRM

Qwiki ($50 million)

automated video production

Tumblr ($1.1 billion)

blogging

Summly ($30 million)

news summarization

Oculus VR ($2 billion)

virtual reality tech

Instagram ($1 billion)

photo sharing

WhatsApp ($19 billion)

mobile instant messaging

Bluefin Labs ($80 million)

social analytics

TweetDeck ($40 million)desktop client

Goodreads social network

IMDB movie database

Patch.com majority stake transferred

to investment company Hale Global

Who Owns What 10.0 The New Media Landscape in 2014

Newsweek sold to IBT Media

Boston Globe sold at a loss

Storyfulnews aggregation

Dow Jonesnews corporation

Myspacesold at a loss

Size of bubble corresponds to the number of overall acquisitions and partnerships. Examples are notable deals.