Company acquisitions and mergers
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In the life of a company, big or small, in one chapter, they would be acquired or merged into a larger company for something to ideally benefit both or multiple entities together.
As such, it is imperative to archive the websites, sub-subdomains of said websites, and social media presences of said acquired companies because:
- The content is subject to:
- Being changed or altered
- Something as simple as adding an announcement to say that they've been acquired is a difference between
a company's website pre-bought and a company's website post-bought.
- Something as simple as adding an announcement to say that they've been acquired is a difference between
- Being removed
- In most instances, the acquired companies would have their website domains be redirected to the company's website that is responsible for the acquisition;
For example, http://www.permabit.com/ redirects
to https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquires-permabit-assets-eases-barriers-cloud-portability-data-deduplication-technology?sc_cid=701f2000000RTVRAA4
because Permabit was acquired by Red Hat in 2017 July. - In certain instances, an acquired company's content of their internet presence is subject to removal, partially or fully;
For example, on 2020 March 31, with Dark Sky (weather app) being acquired by Apple,
the acquired company's sub-domain, https://blog.darksky.net/ has deleted all of their blog posts except for the announcement of being acquired;
compare with https://web.archive.org/web/20200309082304/https://blog.darksky.net/ (last snapshot pre-announcement)
to https://web.archive.org/web/20200331173201/https://blog.darksky.net/ (snapshot of post-announcement).
- In most instances, the acquired companies would have their website domains be redirected to the company's website that is responsible for the acquisition;
- Being changed or altered
There are two ways of finding companies being acquired or merged to another company:
- 1) Make a web search query with phrases or keywords through a web search engine
- Advantages
- Smaller or more obscure company acquisitions are more likely to be found,
often found from the acquired company's websites or social media accounts.
- Smaller or more obscure company acquisitions are more likely to be found,
- Disadvantages
- The amount of unrelated or mislabeled content when searching is higher than normal,
as it is one of the quirks of web search engines displaying results through a countless series of algorithms.
- The amount of unrelated or mislabeled content when searching is higher than normal,
- Here are a list of commonly used keywords and phrases to use to make a search query:
acquire
acquired
acquisition
bought out
merger
merging
-sports
- It's recommended to use this line as part of the search query since without this phrase,
the search attempt will bring up results of sport players being traded or joining a team;
However, this may remove results on sports-oriented company acquisitions or mergers.
- It's recommended to use this line as part of the search query since without this phrase,
- Advantages
- 2) Browse through articles or press releases from various sources
- Advantages
- The amount of unrelated or mislabeled content when searching is lower than normal, with some websites due to curation or verification.
- Disadvantages
- Smaller or more obscure company acquisitions are unlikely to be covered by more larger resources.
- Here is a list of various resources of where to find news on company acquisitions and mergers;
They are sorted by category, in alphabetical order, except for the 'General' category:- General
- Benzinga (existed since 2010)
- The Business Journals
- BusinessWire (Limit: only up to 20 pages, 25 entries per page, 500 entries of the most recent articles)
- EU-Startups (existed since 2010 October)
- Fortune (existed since 1929)
- GlobalNewsWire, Inc. (Limit: only up to 100 pages, 10 entries per page, 1000 entries of the most recent articles)
- Federal Trade Commission (Special!)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Reuters
- Automobiles
- Beauty
- Education
- EdSurge (existed since 2011)
- The PIE News
- Financial
- Crowdfund Insider
- Finextra
- Insurance Journal
- Private Equity Wire (existed since 2002)
- PYMNTS.com
- Food & Drink
- Baking Business
- blogTO | Toronto
- CSP Magazine
- Food Business Africa
- Food Business News
- Just Food
- Progressive Grocer (existed since 1922)
- Health
- BioSpace (existed since 1985)
- The Pharma Letter
- RamaOnHealthcare
- Senior Housing Business
- Legal
- Materials
- Pest Control
- Publishing
- Publishers Weekly (existed since 1872)
- Recycling & Waste
- Retail
- Science
- BioSpace (existed since 1985)
- Technology
- ChannelE2E
- CollisionWeek
- Data Economy (existed since 2016)
- The Edge Singapore (existed since 2001)
- Electrical Wholesaling
- FinTech Futures
- Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International Magazine
- Infosecurity Magazine
- Intelligence Community News (existed since 2013)
- Mass Device
- Rental Equipment Register
- Security Sales & Integration (existed since 1979)
- Silicon Republic
- TechCrunch (existed since 2013)
- Via Satellite
- General
- Advantages