synopsis: Twitter has acquired Summify, a Canadian company that created one of several mobile apps that automatically scan the flood of news stories being shared across all social networks. Summify helps people and organizations consume, discover and publish news more efficiently.

synopsis: Groupon has acquired social recommendation app Ditto.me. Ditto lets consumers find out what their friends are up to, have a conversation or get a group together. Ditto makes it easy to get recommendations about restaurants, movies and things to do from any smartphone.

synopsis: Producer Mark Burnett announced that his company One Three Television LLC has taken an ownership interest in Youtoo and will seek to integrate the technology into series produced by his company, One Three Television LLC. Youtoo is both a social network and a television network with advanced technology that makes them work together.

synopsis: Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading provider of transaction management, cloud enablement and mobility management for connected devices, announced that it has acquired privately-held Miyowa, Inc., the leading provider of social network and messaging software for mobile devices.

synopsis: Facebook has further fattened its mobile portfolio by acquiring Glancee, a location-based, "social discovery" app designed to connect people with friends in the real world. Glancee is an app for iPhone, Android, and Facebook that makes it fun and safe to discover people nearby who share friends and interests.

synopsis: NeuMedia, Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Cameo Stars, LLC a social media innovator. Cameo Stars is a social marketing and entertainment company that has uniquely combined two fast-growing, multi-billion dollar markets – virtual goods and branded content – to create a new content format, the "social cameo."

synopsis: Limbo and Brightkite announced that the two companies are merging to form the largest location-based social discovery service. The combined entity will have more than two million unique monthly users, award-winning products, strong advertising revenues and a highly experienced executive team.

synopsis: thePlatform, the leading broadband video management and publishing company, has acquired assets from San Francisco-based Chirp Interactive, Inc., a provider of social media applications. thePlatform will have access to key Chirp assets and Chirp's technical development resources as select personnel will become employees of thePlatform.

synopsis: Vocus, a leading provider of cloud-based marketing and PR software, announced it has acquired North Social, a software company that provides Facebook applications that enable businesses to create, manage and promote their business on Facebook.

synopsis: PostUp, Inc., has announced its acquisition of Echofon, the suite of Twitter applications developed by naan studio, and previously known as “TwitterFon” and “TwitterFox.” Widely regarded for its ease of use and simple, elegant design, Echofon is currently used by more than 3 million people internationally, across multiple platforms.

synopsis: Oodle announced that it has acquired Grouply, the online hub for social groups that offers features for building customized social networking groups. Oodle, a pioneer in social commerce, is reinventing the online experience for "classifieds" by building a social marketplace.

synopsis: AOL Inc. announced that it has acquired Thing Labs, Inc., whose Brizzly family of web-based social software makes it easy and fun for users to create, share, explore and enjoy content. The Brizzly team will play a key role in helping AOL provide consumers with the best possible venues to discover and share content with each other.

synopsis: Dravco Mining Inc. has entered into a Letter of Intent with ZoomNation Inc., whereby it has agreed to complete an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization to acquire 100% of the outstanding equity securities of ZoomNation Inc., a Washington based company.

synopsis: This week iModules Software and Akron, OH-based Internet Association Corporation (IAC) announced that IAC has merged with iModules. As a result, iModules further enhances its position as the worldwide leader in common interest online communities with nearly 600 clients and over 12 million constituents.

synopsis: Electronic Arts Inc. announced the acquisition of SingShot Media, a San Francisco-based online karaoke community. SingShot’s web-based social networking platform allows site members to record their own renditions of famous songs, share their recordings with friends, rate and comment on other members’ tracks.

synopsis: UrtheCast announced the acquisition of GroundMap, a media geo-archiving and aggregator tool, which will allow for seamless social media aggregation into the UrtheCast Platform. As part of the acquisition GroundMap will be merged into UrtheCast to lead development of the UrtheCast web platform.

synopsis: Demand Media® announced the acquisition of RSS Graffiti, a Los Angeles-based developer of social media products. Launched in 2009, RSS Graffiti’s free Facebook application has become one of the most popular ways for publishers to program their Facebook pages with content from websites, blogs and other social platforms.

synopsis: hi5 Networks, one of the world’s largest social networks, acquired PixVerse, Inc., an innovative provider of rich, real-time interactions within social networks. Built on its breakthrough Flash™-based, no-download virtual world platform, PixVerse developed the popular and highly interactive Pix Chat and Pix Wall applications.

synopsis: WhitePages.com, a leading website for finding contact information, has entered into an agreement to purchase Snapvine, a company that develops products to bring voice and mobility to social networks and websites.

synopsis: AVOS Systems, an internet company led by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has acquired link-saving service Trunk.ly. Trunk.ly collects every link that users share or “like” on websites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and stores them in one place to make them easy to find.

synopsis: Twitter has acquired Summify, a Canadian company that created one of several mobile apps that automatically scan the flood of news stories being shared across all social networks. Summify helps people and organizations consume, discover and publish news more efficiently.

synopsis: Twitter has acquired social media analytics and data company, Hotspots.io. The Hotspots.io team, who are now part of Twitter’s “revenue engineering team,” includes Matt Huang, Alexander Spicer and Ashutosh Singhal. The company focuses on “social media intelligence you’ll actually use.”

synopsis: Twitter Inc. has acquired Posterous, a blogging platform known for its slick digital media-sharing interface. The microblogging service said in a blog post that the Posterous staff "has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the Web and mobile devices simple.

synopsis: Twitter has acquired web security firm Dasient, in a move which could make clicking on URLs in the social network a little safer. Dasient's technology scans web addresses to detect harmful content, and the company also operates a service aimed at keeping online advertising free of malware.

synopsis: Twitter has acquired Summify, a Canadian company that created one of several mobile apps that automatically scan the flood of news stories being shared across all social networks. Summify helps people and organizations consume, discover and publish news more efficiently.

synopsis: Twitter has acquired Whisper Systems, a a two-person mobile security software development firm that was founded in 2010. Whisper Systems develops security software for mobile platforms which is focused on protecting data in transit and at rest. Its two offerings are TextSecure and RedPhone.

synopsis: Twitter has acquired Bagcheck, an online service where people create lists of items that interest them, such as cameras they've used or their favorite cold remedies, and share the lists with others.

synopsis: Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, an application for organizing the display of tweets, for more than $40 million in a mix of cash and stock, according to sources close to the deal.

synopsis: Twitter announced that it has acquired Web analytics company Smallthought Systems. Smallthought produced Dabble DB, an online database that Twitter once used to share information about its projects internally. Smallthought also created Trendly, a tool that helps users sift through their Google Analytics data.

synopsis: Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, an application for organizing the display of tweets, for more than $40 million in a mix of cash and stock, according to sources close to the deal.

synopsis: Metaswitch Networks, a multi-award winning supplier of next generation infrastructure and applications to network operators, announced the acquisition of Colibria, the leading independent provider of enhanced instant messaging, presence and network address book solutions.

synopsis: Google has acquired voice messaging startup SayNow. SayNow’s platform allows voice messaging, one-on-one conversations, and group calls to be integrated into Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Android, or iPhone applications.

synopsis: Good Technology, the world's leading provider of push mobility solutions, announced that it has acquired Intercasting Corporation, the leading mobile social networking connectivity company in the U.S.

synopsis: PostUp, the social media platform founded by Internet entrepreneur Bill Gross, announced that it has acquired UberTwitter, the leading Twitter client on the BlackBerry platform. UberTwitter is also available for iPhones.

synopsis: TweetUp, Inc., announced that it had acquired Twidroid. The company also announced that the application will be renamed Twidroyd in order to ensure minimal confusion with products from Lucas Films, trademark owner of the term “droid,” and will come standard on millions of upcoming Android phones from five of the leading handset manufacturers.

synopsis: Myriad Group AG, a global leader in mobile technology with software in over 2 billion phones, announced that it has acquired the brand, technology and 17 employees of privately-held Xumii, Inc., a provider of mobile social networking services based in San Mateo, California and Sydney, Australia.

synopsis: Tucows Inc. today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Mailbank.com Inc. (DBA NetIdentity), effective today. Consideration for the transaction was approximately US$18 million, payable in a combination of cash, promissory notes and the issue of approximately 3,603,000 shares of common stock to the stockholders of NetIdentity.

synopsis: Synacor, Inc., provider of the leading technology platform enabling cable, satellite, telecom and consumer electronics companies to authenticate their consumers and deliver digital entertainment, TV Everywhere and online services, has acquired Carbyn, the HTML5 Platform that delivers a unified experience for apps across Net-connected devices.

synopsis: Twitter Inc. has acquired Posterous, a blogging platform known for its slick digital media-sharing interface. The microblogging service said in a blog post that the Posterous staff "has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the Web and mobile devices simple.

synopsis: Openwave Systems Inc., the leading independent provider of software solutions for the communications and media industries, has completed the acquisition of WiderWeb Limited, a leading developer of mobile web access solutions.

synopsis: Security expert Avira announced that it has acquired SocialShield®, the top-rated parental monitoring service for keeping children and teens safe while using social networks. Avira will incorporate SocialShield’s social network monitoring technology into Avira’s free security product portfolio.

synopsis: Backupify, the leading provider of online backup, archiving and export services for cloud-based data, announced the acquisition of privately held TweetBackup. The popular Twitter backup service currently performs automated daily backups of over 62 million Tweets for thousands of users.

synopsis: BigString Corporation - whose patent-pending technology permits sending recallable, erasable, non-printing and self-destructing emails - announced that it has closed a $2 million round of financing by Tudor Investment Corporation and its affiliates.

synopsis: CrowdGather announced a definitive agreement to acquire the technical assets from Lefora. The CrowdGather network combined with Lefora’s hosted forum properties will offer a search engine and social media-friendly network of forum communities that serves over 90 million monthly pageviews.

synopsis: Microsoft Corp. has closed its acquisition of Skype Global S.a r.l. Skype is the leading Internet communications company. With an Internet-connected device, families, friends and colleagues can get together for free with messaging, voice and video using Skype.

synopsis: AOL Inc and Digital Sky Technologies Limited (DST), the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking and Eastern European markets, announced that they have reached an agreement for DST to acquire ICQ – the leading instant messaging service in Russia and a number of other international markets – for $187.5 million.

synopsis: eBay Inc. announced that it has successfully completed the previously announced sale of its Skype communications unit. The buyer, who will control an approximately 70 percent stake, is an investor group led by Silver Lake and includes Joltid Limited and certain affiliated parties, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz.

synopsis: eBay has completed its previously announced acquisition of Skype, a communications platform provider whose purpose is to break down barriers to communication. With an Internet-connected device, families, friends and colleagues can get together for free with messaging, voice and video using Skype.

synopsis: Trivantis, the company behind the successful Lectora eLearning brand, announced its agreement in principle to acquire its partner Flypaper Studio, Inc., providers of the leading Flash content creation and digital signage platform.